Come on, A Little Helper !

A friend asked me if I could help him for making his thesis's product. I accepted since I have done my thesis before. His product was an Android application (Android apps) of learning media for vocational high school, built by Adobe Flash C5.5 with Action script 3.0. I collected some references while he prepared the materials. When all the preparation was ready, we started to make the product.

There was a little bit different between the android apps and the common flash file. The file type for flash file was .fla, plays at Adobe flash player as an .swf file. Android apps used Air for android as the file type and it plays as an application (.apk) in android devices.

First problem came when both of us have no devices which compatible with the apps. Our devices use froyo and gingerbread as the Operating System with Adobe Air version 3.2. But Android apps just compatible with the higher operating system with Adobe air version 3.6. we couldn't test the apps because of this problem. We didn't find the solution yet, but we'll find it later...



I thought it wouldn't be difficult since I have done my own with Adobe Flash and Action Script 3.0 too. It seemed wrong when I found some difficulties. I forgot about many things like scripts and timeline's concept.

It made me doing some mistakes and causing errors in scripting. Fixing those errors were so annoying. Because of the case-sensitive, a little mistake will ruin the whole scripts.

Working with a design hobbyist like him was an interesting point. Somehow he got more time to do all the design, layout, button's shapes and colors, rather than scripting. But it was acceptable since the design was good enough.

It has been four weeks, and the progress of making product was good. We have been working very hard, and we must keep fighting for the next !