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Can someone please tell me of any tutorials about how to get an App to Android/iPhone via Captivate 5.5? I don't know the first thing about apps, at the moment, but often use Captivate to make nice applications etc. I would essentially like to know how can I design something in Captivate and then transform it into an app which I can then advertise as such for Android/iPhone users to download.
Your help is much appreciated!
Paul.
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By coincidence I just saw a post on this in the LinkedIn Captivate forum:
Michael Hinze has started a discussion: Deploying Captivate demos on Android Devices
"After the recent discussion about converting Captivate demos to iPad/iPhone apps, I wondered if it is possible to deploy Captivate demos on Android devices as well. Android-powered phones and tablets are rapidly becoming more popular. After some research and testing, I succeeded in installing a Captivate demo on my Samsung Galaxy II Android phone. The conversion process is not very intuitive and required the use of Adobe’s AIR application (included with Flash CS5 and 5.5), but does allow you to convert a Captivate file to an Android app. The basic steps of the conversion are as follows: 1. Publish your Captivate project as a .swf file 2. Create a self-signed certificate (the easiest way to do this is through the AIR for Android settings screen in Flash CS 5.5) 3. Create the required XML-based manifest file that includes application description and permissions 4. From a command line, run the ‘adt’ command (see Flash CS5 help files for details) to compile the swf file into an Android app (.apk) 5. From a command line, run the ‘adb’ command (see Flash CS5 help files for details) to install the app package on your Android device. This is yet another option to re-use Captivate demos!"
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Thank you for your help. I will endeavour to give it a try!
Paul.
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Or just point to wherever the Captivate file is on the web - Android
phones and tablets support the full Flash player.
Steve
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Hello Steve.
Would that then be a case of deciding whether to use web based material vs an application?
Paul.
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Steve got a point and it seems like Captivate production isn't a problem with all phones except iOS !
So I too have a question, how to bridge that iOS gap ?
OR is it mission impossible cos of the ongoing Adobe vs Apple WAR !
Any ideas ?
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It's not Mission Impossible - you can deliver Captivate to iOS in a
number of ways, you just have to make a little extra effort.
Steve
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Wow ! Steve
Great news indeed, so is it convenient to share that 'little extra effort' ?
* This IOS thingy is driving me away from captivate, forcing me to build iOS apps using online appps builder *
I'm all ears ...
Regards
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Sarcasm?
Soooo - publish to iPhone (and iPad) then following these instructions
is too onerous?
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/09/publish-to-iphone-from-captivate-5-and-elearning-suite-2.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2011/03/create_elearning_content_for_i.html
yes you need to consider the screen size and not everything is
perfect, so some experimentation is necessary, but the same is true
for any mobile application and device.
Steve
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No sarcasm intended, Steve
Just a guy desperately in need of help.
Thanks lots
Will try out ....
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OK
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Yes.
Steve
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Whizzed through an attempt last night using my iMac and published an app to my Android phone. Unfortunately the app just showed a blank white screen. I am guessing that it may be something wrong in the .xml file settings? I will try a more steady approach this week.
One question. When launching a Captivate project from Device Central for use with Android, should I select AIR 2.5 or select from the Flash Player listings?
Thanks,
Paul.
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App worked fine this time around.
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Actually Steve, not all Androids support Flash; I believe anything below android 2.2 doesn't support it, and quite a few current devices still run below this (my phone came with 1.6, and the latest update is only up to 2.1, with no plan for an official 2.2 release)
Best bet for cross-platform would probably be html5
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Some 2.3 phones don't support Flash either.
But good luck finding an elearning content development tool that produces suitable HTML5 output
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Hi,
Before I get deep into taking my Captivate projects and getting them to work on iPhone, iPad and Android platforms, can anyone tell me if these apps will still be SCORM compliant? I have a requirement to track usage, knowledge transfer and quality through my Learning Management System which the web users do just fine at the moment. Would this still be the case if the users were to access the eLearning through smart phones?
Thanks
Anthony
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Please let me know if you get a response to this. I have a client that requires an iPhone course to be pushed to SCORM and has specified Captivate as the software of choice. I have provided mobile solutions to LMS via Lectora but not Captivate 5.5. When checking publishing options for a Captivate iPhone template, the choices were F4V which was housed in a different location than the swf zipped SCORM package.
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Chuck did you ever find out why that F4V was in a different location? How is the iPhone published content running on iOS?
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Hi Ray. Did you ever get your answer on this? I have the same need and would like to use Captivate 5.5.