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.

As soon as I read on Keith Peters blog that the follow up to Actionscript 3 Animation was being written I logged straight in to amazon and placed it on my Amazon pre-order list. Actionscript 3 Animation has been sat firmly on my desk since I bought it over a year ago. It’s a fantastic repository of maths, trig and physics that is invaluable to any Flash game developer. Seriously if you don’t already own this book go and buy it. 

I was absolutely thrilled the sequel turned up on my doorstep today especially as I had completely forgotten that I had placed it on my it on my pre-order list. I’ve not had time for a full look yet but a quick thumb through shows topics such as Pathfinding, Isometric Projectection and Advanced Collision Detection… Can’t wait to read it. Take a look at Advanced Actionscript 3 Animation here Nice work Keith!

anton.