I am delighted to announce that I have just picked up a book deal with Friends of ED to write a new iPhone development book with a twist!

It’s called “The Essential Guide to iPhone Development for Flash Users” and I am extremely excited about it. I’ve planned the Table of Contents and I’ve just begun writing, all is going well. I’m hoping to really leverage what we as Flash developers already know for game and application creation and how that can be used to learn Obective-C and the basics of iPhone development. So if your a Flash dev and interested in the possibilities of iPhone development but havent made that step yet, this is for you!

I’ll be covering lot’s of topics ranging from basics of the Objective-C language, converting simple Actionscript to Objective-C to much more advanced topics like Mapping and some OpenGL.

I would love to hear any comments, thoughts for topics you’d like to see in the book, anything your currently stuck on if you are trying to learn iPhone / Objective-C or even if you might be interested in doing a little bit of writing as I am looking for a co-author to take on half of the book with me.

Leave as much or as little info as you want, even if it’s just something like “it would be cool if you covered…” as at the end of the day it’s for you guys so I want to include as much of the content you’d like to read or learn about!

anton.

It’s not everyday you get to feature in a magazine so I’m thrilled to have two features in one month! One for .NET magazine and the other for Computer Arts.

The Flash tutorial written for .NET magazine focuses on the Text Layout Framework Panel beta created by Adobe which offers vastly improved control of type in our Flash projects and some really interesting little features like columns and the ability to add images to text fields.

The Computer Arts tutorial teaches how to simply link Flash and Flickr by creating simple querys and displaying the results in Flash. It strives to teach the fundamentals of connectivity between the two but also gives the reader a 3D Stack Panel style image viewer they can use in their own projects.

Here are some photos if you haven’t seen them yet:

If you’ve read either of these and have any feedback or are having any problems then feel free to give me a shout either on my email address me@antonmills.com or on this thread and I’ll help out.

anton.