Drawing Inches for our ruler
It's time that we start drawing our actual ruler. The first step is we need to figure out what an inch is at all. As we talked about in Course 2 when we discovered the capabilities class we discovered that we can load up how many pixels are in an inch using the Capabilities.screenDPI property.
Now that we know how many pixels are an inch its time for us to draw lines in the intersection point of inches. By the end of this video you will leverage Flashes Drawing API(you can learn more about that here) to draw out the inches of our ruler.
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We are going to build a totally new start to scratch Mobile application (publishable to iOS or Android). Our application will automatically look great in horizontal or vertical view.
01:13
Setting up our initial application configurations
Our first step into building a fully working application is to start a totally new Android Application (just as we did in part 1).
06:53
Centering The content on the stage
What we really want to do first is set our applications registration point to the top left corner we do that using the StageAlign.TOP_LEFT property and set our application not to scale as well.
05:07
Drawing Inches for our ruler
It's time that we start drawing our actual ruler. The first step is we need to figure out what an inch is at all.
09:12
Making our application redraw each time screen changes
Our ruler looks great but only problem is that as soon as the user rotates there device our application doesn't look all that no more.
04:25
Initializing our application with null
When we first start our application on a mobile device it looks like hell right now. We got to fix that.
02:34
Huston we have a problem: Bug patrol
Testing is the heart of developing. Bugs are ok don't fear them we make them all the time. In this video we figure out what the bug is and then isolate it so we can fix it. By the end of this video we
04:14
Environment Friendly developers Reuse code
When you think about it we just created a function to draw our an inch and now we want to build ¼ inches and smaller elements inside of an inch and when you think about it , isn't it almost the same
04:14
It's time to add Digits to our application
It's really great to have lines but how will users know how many inches they have if there are no numbers? Exactly ! In this video we take a look at how text works in ActionScript and get it to align
19:08
Applications can have memory leaks – Don't let it happen
When your building an application its not that uncommon to create small memory leaks
02:48
Adding an icon to our application
We start off with an icon I created once saved out as a PNG we will add it into our Adobe AIR configurations. By the end of this video we will have the application icons configured.
02:21
Wake up ! It's not time to sleep
we will add a small patch to our application and get it ready to become the Flashlight it always wanted to be at night
03:25