Does your game need to integrate with the iOS Game Center? How about including an in-app purchasing system? Learn how to go beyond the standard ActionScript API when developing mobile games with Adobe AIR, part of the Adobe Game Developer Tools in the Adobe Creative Cloud. Come to this session to understand and learn in more detail how to:• Write your own extension using native code, and develop the ActionScript API that wraps it• Package a native extension, and reuse it during your game development• Leverage third-party native extensions available today

Oakley, a designer of sunglasses, ski goggles and other innovative sports accessories, uses Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create a merchandising app with inspiring editorial about sponsored athletes. Check out the app of the week video to see some creative applications of DPS overlays. Scroll through the editorial that seemingly appears from behind a mountain. Use the 360 degree overlay to control a snowboarder's rotations through the air.

Senior Product Manager Tom Barclay discusses recent Flash Professional CS6 updates, highlighting the enhanced workflows in Adobe AIR 3.4 for development of iOS applications.

Discover how to deploy AIR applications from within Flash Professional CS6 as "captive runtimes." Captive runtime allows developers to bundle the AIR framework into an AIR application, creating a self-contained entity that eliminates third-party dependency.

In this mobile app demo, John Chen shows how manual garbage collection improves performance on the iPod 4 (top) and Nexus One (bottom). Each animation shows under 200 triangles in playContainer and never slows down. (Click the HTML Text link to read the article.)

In this mobile app demo, John Chen shows animations on the Nexus One (left) and iPod 4 (right) performing well. Note the high and consistent 30 frames per second (fps) even though more and more bitmap graphics come in. (Click the HTML Text link to read the article.)

In this mobile app demo, John Chen shows animations on the Nexus One (left) and iPod 4 (right) performing poorly because of too many vector graphics. Note the degraded performance (as slow as 12 fps) as more and more vector graphics come in. (Click the HTML Text link to read the article.)

In this mobile app demo, John Chen shows how a lack of manual garbage collection hinders performance on the iPod 4 (top) and Nexus One (bottom). The number of triangles increases forever as the animation plays. (Click the HTML Text link to read the article.)

Technical Evangelist Andrew Trice introduces Adobe AIR with captive runtime support which will provide seamless compatibility for your desktop applications built with Flash Builder.

Technical Evangelist Andrew Trice covers Adobe AIR with captive runtime support for mobile application development, which will benefit your Flash Builder projects for Android OS. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)