In this 1hr 47min video we will go though building a social network checkin application that runs on both iOS and Android phones from the same code base using Adobe Air and Flex. This tutorial will teach you how to interact in an Adobe Air application with a PHP and MySQL backend.
The completed application will allow:
-Users to sign up in-app
-Users to login
-Save login functionality
-View all users on the network
-Check status and location
-View other user’s status and location in Google Maps
The video shows all ActionScript 3 code for the database interaction and the corresponding PHP code to perform the necessary functions to support the application.
This application is not about backend best practices and uses no backend frameworks so that it is able to be followed by most people with regular hosting accounts with PHP and MySQL. This tutorial is about the interaction between the mobile application with a backend to support the social network. It teaches you how to signup, login, view a list of users from a database, update data, and read data in the mobile application.
Before you start this tutorial make sure you have Flash Builder 4.5 or the equivalent installed and a MySQL and PHP server ready to use.
All source code is provided with this tutorial.