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Enabling auto orientation with Adobe AIR

Everything we will be working on in this title is going to work for all mobile devices there not specific per device but per capabilities. We will start by seeing again how to configure and publish your application. In part one we go in detail into the steps involved when creating your application using Adobe AIR.

Our first step before we can start coding is we need to configure our application to listen into the orientation events. By default our application when we create it will only work in one mode but wouldn't auto-orient at all! We first need to change the configurations and enable our application to auto configure. So the first step in our training will be to setup and prepare our application to be enabled to auto-rotate. Once in the debugger we are not done yet we will need to enable orientation in the debugger as well. Once we follow all these steps our application will automatically auto-orient its content every time we move our device.

What will we learn today with Adobe AIR?

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Enabling auto orientation with Adobe AIR

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Ready for a quick recap of everything we did so far?

Going through really quickly all the steps we've gone through already before continuing to the next step.

Listening in to the Orientation Events of Adobe AIR

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Preventing the default auto orientation from happening

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What is the users Adobe AIR version and why is it important?

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Time to say goodbye for now...

That's it your done with part 2. Time to take a well deserved break before you move into part 3.