ActionScript 3 Reference for iPhone
The iTunes app store has just approved my first application, and has posted it online. The application is an ActionScript 3 class reference for the iPhone and allows quick and easy access to the ActionScript 3 class reference docs for Flash Player 10, AIR 1.5, and Flex 3.2.
You can find more information on the application, view screenshots and log feature requests on the application’s home page. You can install the application directly from the iTunes app store from here.
Special thanks to De Monsters who put together the graphics and icons for the app.
I’ve been carrying around my printed copy of the reference everywhere I go. This app has totally made my day! Really great reference. Thanks Mike!
Tristan Roscoe
26 Jan 09 at 10:02 am
Sweet, nice job Mike!
enefekt
26 Jan 09 at 10:04 am
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jonnymac blog » ActionScript 3 Reference for the iPhone
26 Jan 09 at 10:11 am
Awesome !
I’m gonna get it right now :) Thanks for this useful app.
Dhaya
26 Jan 09 at 10:17 am
Indeed, nice job.
You got me unnecessarily excited there for a second, though. When I read your headline, I immediately thought to myself: “They finally got Flash working on the iPhone!”
Ross
26 Jan 09 at 10:18 am
Nice… but why? Really – what is the point of this app? When should I use it? When I do some AS3 coding and don’t have internet access on my PC but have internet access on my iPhone?
Please explain us what is the point.
donkey kong
26 Jan 09 at 10:33 am
Awesome, Mike! Any chance of a version for the Blackberry? :)
RobG
26 Jan 09 at 10:44 am
[...] Really handy! … ActionScript 3, Air and Flex documentaion distributed as an application on iPhone and iPodTouch – by…. [...]
creacog » AS3 reference docs on iPhone / iPodTouch
26 Jan 09 at 11:10 am
Hey Mike,
ten thousand thanks for this one, just downloading it now. I’ve been carrying the printed one around for some time, and its getting a beating. I’m watching this install on my iPhone now and can’t wait to dig in!
Cody Tolmasoff
26 Jan 09 at 11:15 am
@donkey kong:
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Nice… but why? Really – what is the point of this app? When should I use it?
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If you dont know why you would need this, then you probably dont need it.
For me, I travel a lot, and it is useful to have local docs, especially when my connection might be slow or non-existent.
I will never understand why people feel the need to take the time to leave comments that they don’t need / want or care about something. If you dont need / want it, dont use it.
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
mikechambers
26 Jan 09 at 11:19 am
Thanks, Mike. Will definitely use this next time I’m on a plane.
Christian
Christian Cantrell
26 Jan 09 at 11:46 am
Good job Mike! Will definitely be using this.
Brett Walker
26 Jan 09 at 11:57 am
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26 Jan 09 at 12:46 pm
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ActionScript3 API Reference application for iPhone/iPod touch : Mihai CORLAN
26 Jan 09 at 1:10 pm
ActionScript 3 API Reference für das iPhone…
Mike Chambers hat eine kostenlos iPhone-Applikation namens ActionScript 3 API Reference veröffentlicht. Enthalten sind die Dokumentation Klassenbeschreibungen für
Adobe AIR 1.5
Adobe Flex 3.2
Flash Player 10.
Es besteht die Möglichkeit, nach Klas……
www.video-flash.de
26 Jan 09 at 1:21 pm
Hi Mike,
We tested your app with our iPod Touch. It works great and gives no error.
Thumbs Up!!
Yagiz
26 Jan 09 at 1:29 pm
Downloaded, works as advertised. My only suggestions might be to offer options to filter by AS3, Flex, and AIR-specific classes. Being able to drill down by package would also make things handier if you don’t know the name of the class, but know it’s in a certain package.
But hey, it’s free so I can’t really complain too much. ;)
Brett Walker
26 Jan 09 at 2:52 pm
@Brett
Those are some of the top suggestions, which I am going to look into:
http://as3iphone.uservoice.com/
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
mikechambers
26 Jan 09 at 2:55 pm
you should write a tour de flex for iphone, loads of awesome flex/flash sample code that could be useful.
I don’t have an iphone so not very useful to me.
noj
26 Jan 09 at 3:33 pm
This is awesome Mike, thanks. I was searching the app store for something like this about a month ago so when I saw your tweet pop up, it made me happy ;)
Jassa
26 Jan 09 at 3:38 pm
[...] Chambers has just released his iPhone app for viewing the Actionscript 3 Class Reference docs. A great way to have the reference always at hand… and a very cool iPhone app [...]
Paul Burnett - madblog » Blog Archive » Flash on the iPhone? well sorta…
26 Jan 09 at 4:07 pm
Thanks much!
Travis
26 Jan 09 at 9:29 pm
The app isnt in the danish app-store :-(
Maybe its apple, but if you have restricted the app to certain stores (I have not uploaded any apps myself, so I dont know the facts) please include the danish app-store?
Poul
27 Jan 09 at 2:09 am
“I will never understand why people feel the need to take the time to leave comments that they don’t need / want or care about something. If you dont need / want it, dont use it.”
Really? You only want comments where people agree with you, or say that great? A comment is a comment, bad or good.
IMO its good that people have different opinions and that they feel able to voice them.
I think you explained your need for it clearly which meant it was worth the guy asking the question (although I think its a bit week being anonymous).
Tink
27 Jan 09 at 3:49 am
Nice app, albeit somewhat a limited first version. I’d like to see better formatting of the pages, so I don’t have to zoom in and out all the time or scroll sideways too much. Pinching and flicking is really great on the iPhone of course, when you’re scrubbing or doing a demo of the phone, but it sucks for reading longer articles imo.
It’d be sweet if you could jump between different kinds of members, like properties, events and methods. Someone’s suggestion of filtering as3/flex/air classes sounded really nice too.
But all in all, great work, definately a keeper.
Marcus Stade
27 Jan 09 at 5:18 am
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27 Jan 09 at 6:04 am
Congrats on your first iPhone app Mike! I’ve done a couple now and it’s definitely a different experience from developing in AS3, heh. Gonna download it shortly and play around!
Mike J
27 Jan 09 at 7:17 am
Nice app.
Would be cool if I could save a snippet of code/section, or have something emailed to me for later reference when back at my Mac Pro.
ljones
27 Jan 09 at 7:38 am
@Poul
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The app isnt in the danish app-store
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It isnt restricted to any particular region, so im not sure what is going on there. Ill look into it and see if I can find anything out.
mike
mikechambers
27 Jan 09 at 10:09 am
Wickedly useful Mike. Thanks. The two “top suggestions” you referenced above would also benefit me greatly. Count my vote when you consider implementing them. I would also find a bookmarking feature useful.
>donkey kong said:
>Nice… but why? Really – what is the point
>of this app? When should I use it? When I do some AS3
>coding and don’t have internet access on my PC but have
>internet access on my iPhone?
>Please explain us what is the point.
When I’m on my laptop, I use the online help. Other times, I’m away from my laptop – perhaps on a train or a plane – and I want to look things up, maybe because I am planning an app in my head. Other times I just want to browse and see if there’s anything I could be using that I don’t know about. Sometimes I just want to learn. For all those things, it is extremely useful. It is always in my pocket and takes up zero space over and above what I would already be carrying. That is the point. It’s priceless.
Julian
27 Jan 09 at 12:34 pm
@mikechambers
Don’t look in to it. I tried earlier from my iPhone and left a comment. Now back on my mac there was a new agreement from Apple in iTunes that I should verify – and then I was directed from the us-store to the danish store. So I guess it was a account-problem of something?! Whatever, I’m transferring to my iPhone this minute – thanks! (and I hope you didnt waste time on me…)
Poul
27 Jan 09 at 1:36 pm
I presented to work on creating an as3 guide similar to what you created here. I also, wanted to take it to another level and be able to have your latest com folder and subversion updates within the phone for reference to. Anyways, nice Job, I will use this product.
thanks,
VP
Joshua VP
27 Jan 09 at 1:56 pm
You know what I was thinking yesterday? … “it would be cool if there was an ActionScript Reference app for the iPhone!”
sascha/hdrs
27 Jan 09 at 8:50 pm
the big advantage i see with this app is the search bar. start type your class name and it brings you right there. in the original html docs you always have to scour through the list to find it which is really annoying.
might be even better if the search bar always stays on top and doesn’t scroll with the class list.
sascha/hdrs
27 Jan 09 at 9:07 pm
iPod Touch, German, Version 2.1 (5F137)
AS3 API Reference -> Install
“Not compatible | This program isn’t compatible with this iPod. | OK”
:-((((((
Tib
28 Jan 09 at 5:31 am
@Tib
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iPod Touch, German, Version 2.1 (5F137)
–
Yeah, it requires version 2.2.
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
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28 Jan 09 at 10:53 am
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28 Jan 09 at 3:32 pm
Noice!! now if I can just use it for Android!! :)
Togishi
28 Jan 09 at 8:41 pm
Mike – great stuff – thanks. Obvious comment – can someone in Adobe please give us an update as to when Flash will be available for iphone / itouch. We’re hanging on – but not sure if I can hang on much longer …
Nick
29 Jan 09 at 10:58 am
Thanks Mike! I’m looking forward to showing this off at our next user group meeting!
Great work,
JP
lelander
29 Jan 09 at 11:34 am
Even though i don’t have an iTouch or iPod Touch, I appreciate your work. It is once again a great contribution to the Flash Platform community.
Thanks for your time developing very helpful applications/books.
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29 Jan 09 at 10:46 pm
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30 Jan 09 at 2:14 pm
You can now find a similar application on the Android.
For details, see:
http://www.jadbox.com/2009/02/actionscript-for-android/
Jonathan Dunlap
1 Feb 09 at 4:03 pm
This is great… you know what would be even better? If there was an equivalent of that app as a downloadable app for the mac. It’s always baffled me that there is no searchable, downloadable set of API docs for Flex… Surely it can’t be too hard to build a version of this that runs locally on a Mac?
Thanks in any case! It’s better than having to be connected all the time, for sure.
Daniel Tenner
2 Feb 09 at 12:11 am
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tEXtOO.NEt » Blog Archive » Référence ActionScript 3 pour iPhone
2 Feb 09 at 2:25 am
Thanks, Mike. I was able to use this while at lunch, where I didn’t have my laptop, and there wasn’t a Wifi. We were talking about a bug, and brainstorming some options. In seconds, I had the class name I was thinking of.
I’m learning to do iPhone apps right now, and it was nice to see an example of a reference. Regardless of what you add to this app or not, I appreciate the effort you had to do it. Well done!
Cole Joplin
2 Feb 09 at 9:28 am
Mike:
Thanks once again for blazing the trail for the rest of us.
Duane
LiveCycle
4 Feb 09 at 12:15 am
“you know what would be even better? If there was an equivalent of that app as a downloadable app for the mac.”
http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2008/12/09/air-app-as3-language-reference/
Marcus Geduld
4 Feb 09 at 12:24 pm
Thanks for putting this together, Mike. It has already been helpful to me and it’s much appreciated.
By the way, if you decide to break down the information into AIR, Flash & Flex subsections, and/or if you decide to reformat the information so it’s a bit easier to read on an iPhone/Touch, I’ll make no effort to convince you otherwise. ;)
But even if you decide to never touch the thing again I am still very grateful.
Thank you, sir!
RP Phillips
5 Feb 09 at 2:45 pm
hi Mike.
this is vary nice.
but Please respond to the language of the destination of reference…
came
6 Feb 09 at 5:59 am
Hey, Mike.
As it happens that the iTunes Store is not available in the Baltic States, could you, please, provide the app as a download? I would really appreciate that!
hush
2 Mar 09 at 1:48 am
any chance of this hitting the android platform
nathan king
11 Mar 09 at 7:30 am
Thanks for putting this together, Mike. It was the very first app I installed on my new iPod touch!
mrm
15 Mar 09 at 7:09 am
“you know what would be even better? If there was an equivalent of that app as a downloadable app for the mac.”
Introducing “Doc?” — http://airdoc.be/
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15 Mar 09 at 7:12 am
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Great app.
Nice approach !
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20 Jul 09 at 2:34 am
Could this be packaged as a mac widget to?…
Militia
12 Sep 09 at 7:02 pm
I can’t for the life of me see the use for this. Who the hell wan’t to read a reference document on the GayPhone?
I mean the screen i smaller than my hand, it must physically hurt you to read that kind of text on such a small device. Or is the ActionScript refernece not that complex that I am used to?
Would I as a developer when in need of consultation
prefer to use the applePhone to search (with an inferior keyboard) the reference, rather than alt-tabing on my the actual PC I am developing on to the reference and search? I see that as an annoying distraction…
I dont understand?
Pointless app for a pointless “phone” (with the amaizing cut-n-paste feature, wow).
P.S Yes I read the other comment, but the answer just tells me that the poster can’t justify why.
/THE Misanthrope
InternetNetTroll
17 Sep 09 at 2:34 am
Thanks for the app, Mike. It’s been especially useful for me as a designer since digging around for the typography controls inside the API is normally such a headache.
Kevin Tuskey
12 Oct 09 at 1:04 am
nice app, works well.
I did find one bug to your app though, which I bet doesn’t really bother you. The title header of the class doesn’t get updated if you are redirected from a link within another class… I get lost sometimes when I move down the object chain.
Besides that, thanks!
Matt
16 Mar 10 at 3:05 pm
I could see using this when I’m on my laptop but offline, which comes up from time to time. Even if I am online, it’s one less window I’d have to have open when working on a limited-size laptop monitor.
Also – sometimes I’m having discussions about AS3 with other programmers while I’m not even at a computer.
cg
7 May 10 at 12:28 pm
Mike,
Seriously…Mike… im having your kids, this reference has made my life so much easier. seriously… amazing!
x
Twitch
13 Aug 10 at 5:24 pm