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Revision as of 02:38, 2 April 2011

FDT is more than just an IDE. It is a community of amazing contributors from around the world, including volunteers and Powerflasher employees, who work with each other to advance the interests of the better Flash and Flex development environment. Here you can find a selection of invaluable tutorials written by the FDT Team and the Community.

A collection of resources for FDT users including project templates, code snippets, Ant scripts, sample projects, color themes and more on GitHub

Check also welovefdt, a community driven project with a collection of best blogs/articles/tutorials about FDT

Multiscreen: Targeting Mobile Devices

Multi-target

• Developing an app targeting multiple devices (iOS, Android & BlackBerry) with Flash CS5 + FDT (Demian Borba)
• Flex 4.5 Mobile Project Template (Marvin Blase)
• Project template wizard for Flex "Hero" Mobile - Video (Marvin Blase)
• Multiscreen Development & Testing: Android, iOS, BlackBerry (PlayBook), TV + more ... (Romain Ecarnot)
• Quick Tip: FDT4 & Mobile Supporting Multiple Screens (Patrick Kulling)

Google Android

• Launching the Android emulator - Video (Marvin Blase)
• Android Air development using Ant & ADT for FDT 4 (Karl Freeman)
• How to build your AIR application for Android using FDT (Leonardo Risuleo)
• How I Got Started with Android in FDT on OSX (Jono Kafkaris)
• “Flash for Android” Screencast Series with FDT (Jesse Freeman)
• Getting Device Properties like OS, Model, Brand, SDK Version and CPU on AIR for Android (Sidney de Koning)

Blackberry Playbook

• FDT and Playbook Resources (Scott Blackburn)
• Setting Up FDT for the Blackberry Playbook SDK (Part I) (Pieter Helsen)
• PlayBook Development with FDT and ANT (Martin Rädlinger)

Game Development in FDT

• Building Frogger with FDT for Android: Game Basics and Sprites with Flixel (Jesse Freeman)
• Flixel Templates (Fintan Boyle)

Molehill: Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Incubator support

• How to get started with the Molehill API and Away3D (George Profenza)
• Targeting Flash Player 11 (Incubator Build) in FDT (Dave Gamez)

Adobe AIR support

• AIR2 and FDT4 (M3) – A Detailed Walkthrough (Marvin Blase)
• Create AIR App With FDT (Francis Varga)

Font Library Creator

• Working with the FDT4 Font Library Creator (Matan Uberstein)
• FDT Font Library (Pierre Laveklint)

Getting Started

• 64 bit FDT4 Installation (Matan Uberstein)
• Eclipse FDT4 Color Themes (Marvin Blase)
• 7 things to do first when starting with FDT4 (Aron/Philipp)
• A Quick Overview of FDT (Jens Fischer)
• FDT 4 Review (Hugo Larcher)
• New Project Wizard (FDT Team)
• SDK Management (FDT Team)
• Migration from FDT 3 (FDT Team)
• Flex 4 support (FDT Team)
• Setting up the Ultimate Flash Development Environment (Sascha Balkau)
• Keyboard Shortcuts (Riccardo Bartoli)
• FDT Tutorials To Get Started (Lionel Low)
• FDT Grundeinstellungen (video2brain) - German
• Videos: My Top 5 Timesavers in FDT and how to use them (Marcel Fahle)
  • Live Error Highlighting
  • Code Completion / Content Assist
  • QuickFix
  • Templates
  • Refactoring
• How to create a color-scheme for FDT (W.J. Warren)
• Flex and FDT – happily coexisting on Windows (Robert Turall)
• FlashDevelop users
  • Setting up FDT to look and behave like FlashDevelop (Steven Sacks)
  • Moving From Flashdevelop to FDT (Matthijs C. Kamstra)

FDT & Flash Authoring Workflow

• Use Flash Pro Assets in Actionscript and Flex Projects (Video) (David Ortinau)
• Embedding Assets with FDT (Will Costa)
• Flash and FDT: Simple Workflow Video (Brian Connatser)
• Configuring a flash professional project in FDT (Kevin Suttle)
• FDT and Flash IDE Integration (Andrew Rossi)
• AS 3.0 Workflow-Special:FDT-Flash (Jens Franke) - German
• Flash Components for FDT (John Barret)
• Flash & FDT via ANT (Julian Dolce)
• My Daily Use of Assets in FDT (Marvin Blase)

Code Templates

• Builder Pattern Helper for a Fluent Constructor (Jonny Reeves)
• Specifier Feature (Matan Uberstein)
• Generating property mutators using Templates (seamguru)
• Validate Constant (Jesse Freeman)
• A Better Trace, Generating Event Listeners, Declaring Event Names, Public/Private/Protected Functions, Singletons (breaktrycatch)
• Loops (forward/back), Switch, Setter, Class, ASDocs, Prop, Singleton, Separator (Michel Wacker)
• Template to automatically generate the HTML wrapper files (Michael Plank)
• FDT Quickfix Templates for Flint Particle System (Marvin Blase)
• FDT Singleton Template (Patrick Kulling)
• Flixel Templates (Fintan Boyle)
• Quick-create Child DisplayObject (Sascha Balkau)

Linux Support

• Set up FDT on Linux (Francis Varga)
• FDT does work in Linux (Ricardo Cabelo - "Mr.doob")
• Flash development in Ubuntu 10.04 with Eclipse and FDT (Matthew Casperson)
• Creating the simplest ever AIR application in FDT4 for Linux (aYo Binitie)

Project Templates

• Creating project templates for FDT4 (Aiden Tailor)
• Setting up FDT with Alternativa3D
• Away3D Project Template (John Barret)
• FDT and FlexUnit 4.1 (Jonny Reeves)
• Robotlegs FDT 4.2 project template (Dominic Gélineau)
• Robotlegs – Flash CS5 Project Template for FDT4 (Dave Gamez)
• Robotlegs Templates (Matan Uberstein)
• PureMVC Templates (Pedr Browne)
• PureMVC Intro using FDT4 (Matthew Sloan Wallace)
• AS3 Signals Templates (Aiden Tailor)

Ant Integration

• FDT and ANT | A User’s Guide – Part I (Alan Klement)
• FDT and ANT | A User’s Guide – Part II (Alan Klement)
• FDT and ANT – Part 1 (Matthijs C. Kamstra)
• FDT How-To: FTP Your Production Files with ANT (Alex Motzenbecker)
• FDT with ANT workflow (Jankees van Woezik)
• FDT, ANT and FTP (Erik van Nieuwburg)
• Introduction for Ant with FDT 3 (Ryan Taylor)
• Compile AIR To Native .DMG or .EXE files with ANT (Marvin Blase)
• Running PHP Eclipse with FDT & ANT (Shane Johnson)
• Building ASDocs with ANT (Colin Duffy)
• Atom ANT: an ANT and FDT Articles Collection (Sidney de Koning)
  • Top 20+ Things every Senior Flash Developer should know
  • More things every flash developer needs to know…
  • Creating an SWC from code in FDT with ANT
  • Creating zip files with ANT in FDT
  • Creating an timestamp with ANT in FDT
  • Copy files to a network share with ANT and FDT
  • Using Growl and ANT from FDT
  • Using FTP with ANT and FDT

Formatter

• FDT Tip: Be A Formatting King (Lionel Low)
• AS 3.0 Workflow-Special:FDT Formatter (Jens Franke) - German

Productivity Tips

• Hidden Gem: FDT4 Launcher Chain (Clement Wong)
• Import ASDocs into FDT (Matan Uberstein)
• Fixing the security sandbox issue in FDT 4 (Ain Tohvri)
• Create a SWC Library from FDT (Matthijs C. Kamstra)
• Create SWC from Linked Resources (Example using Hype Framework) (John Barret)
• FDT Quickfix with- method params (Marvin Blase)
• FDT – Speed up your workflow with shortcuts (Aiden Tailor)
• FDT Workflow customization (Alan Klement)
• Using BulkLoader with FDT and Eliminating Parsing Errors (Jon MacDonald)
• Organising Your Imports (Lionel Low)
• To Build Automatically Or Not (Lionel Low)
• Configure Your Build Path (Lionel Low)
• Creating Working Sets (Lionel Low)
• AS 3.0 Workflow-Special:FDT-Flex SDK (Jens Franke) - German
• Create Font SWFs easily in FDT (Martin Rädlinger)
• AsDoc with FDT (Martin Rädlinger)
• Using CTRL-ENTER to compile ActionScript code in FDT (Jean-Philippe Côté)
• Remove warning messages from external libraries (Jean-Philippe Côté)
• View FDT project index page in web browser (John Barret)

Debugger & Profiler

• The Profiler (FDT Team)
• Debugging in FDT 3.0 Enterprise (Sebastian-Weyrauch)
• Debugging AS3 from the browser using FDT (Juan Bonfante)

External Tools & Frameworks

• How Pflection's FDT Plug-in can improve your design (Maxim Zaks)
• Robotlegs tutorial using FDT (John Lindquist)
• AssetLoader Robotlegs Test App Video Walk-Through (Matan Uberstein)
• PureMVC Console and FDT (Rico Schneider)
• AS3 Signals Tutorial with FDT (John Lindquist)
• Enhance your FDT setup even further with Eclipse plugins & ANT (Karl Freeman)
• Balsamiq + Napkee + FDT: working code in less than 3 minutes! (Enrico Berti)
• Setting up FDT using the MySQL Database Development perspective (John Barret)
• How to use EGit in FDT (Francis Varga)
• Setting up FDT and SOSMax (Doug Marttila)
• Pointroll API classes for FDT (Brendyn Zachary)
• ColdFusion Builder and FDT4 (John Barret)