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List of 22 ActionScript 3.0 API’s

Here is a follow up to Jamie's "AS3: APIs" post seen over on the bigspaceship blog last month. The list contains 22 AS3 APIs that should save Flash and Flex developers a ton of time. I have personally used and can recommend the following: Papervision, as3corelib, Tweener, APE and XIFF.

Adobe APIs
corelib, mappr, flickr, youtube and more.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:resources:apis:libraries

APE (Actionscript Physics Engine)
http://www.cove.org/ape/

as3awss3lib
ActionScript 3.0 library for interacting with Amazon S3
http://code.google.com/p/as3awss3lib/

as3soundeditorlib
Actionscript 3.0 library for sound editing
http://code.google.com/p/as3soundeditorlib/

as3ds
AS3 Data Structures For Game Developers
http://code.google.com/p/as3ds/

ASCOLLADA
http://code.google.com/p/ascollada/

As3Crypto
ActionScript 3 Cryptography Library
http://crypto.hurlant.com/

asinmotion
Animation Library for AS3
http://code.google.com/p/asinmotion/

Away3d
http://code.google.com/p/away3d/

ebay API
http://code.google.com/p/as3ebaylib/

facebook-as3
AS3 API to access Facebook's Platform API
http://code.google.com/p/facebook-as3/

flest
Flest Framework for Adobe Flex and ActionScript3 Applications
http://code.google.com/p/flest/

FZip
Actionscript 3 class library to load standard ZIP archives and extract/decompress contained files.
http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/

lastfm-as3
Actionscript 3.0 library to access the Last.fm web services
http://code.google.com/p/lastfm-as3/

MapQuest
http://company.mapquest.com/mqbs/4a.html

mecheye-as3-libraries
A set of ActionScript 3 Libraries, primarily for Flash game development.
http://code.google.com/p/mecheye-as3-libraries/

Papervision3D
http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/

Salesforce Flex Toolkit
http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Flex_Toolkit

Tweener
Full featured animation library
http://code.google.com/p/tweener/

Twitter AS3 API
http://twitter.com/blog/2006/10/twitter-api-for-flash-developers.html

uicomponents-as3
Lightweight AS3 UI component library
http://code.google.com/p/uicomponents-as3/

XIFF
XMPP client library
http://svn.igniterealtime.org/svn/repos/xiff/branches/xiff_as3_flexlib_beta1/

Yahoo AS3 APIs
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/as3_api_libraries.html

Got any to add? Have you worked with any of these? Share your experience with others. Especially if you have run into any issues....

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24 Responses to “List of 22 ActionScript 3.0 API’s”

  1. Modest Maps (http://www.modestmaps.com) has an AS3 version in their SVN repository. Some of my students are using it for a project and it works pretty well.

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  7. Wow. Sick list. I’ve got a new favorite to add:

    http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000264.cfm

    AS3Cards should solve all (most) of the problems you’d have creating a Flash card game.

  8. Leon Oosterwijk on August 18th, 2007 at 8:06 pm

    I’d like to add my Flex IRC API. It’s available here:

    http://code.google.com/p/flexircclient/

    -Leon

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  10. Hey Sean great job on the list, I myself am trying to get a full list of all the avialable AS3 libraries, you can find the discussion here: http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/582/

    Thanks!

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  16. The uicomponents-as3 was a useless inclusion.

    No code, no wiki pages, no point in having it in the list…

  17. Find the Yahoo! AS3 libraries here: http://developer.yahoo.com/flash

    They are pretty weak, but may be a good source of example code.

  18. http://code.google.com/p/as3httpclient

  19. I have been using Mock4AS to improve my Unit Tests in AS3. Mock4AS adds Mock Objects capabilities to the unit test libraries (e.g. flexunit).

  20. Hello,

    I am a flash guy and was wondering the amount of flash developers that are moving into Flex, I am learning it little by little but have come to found so many awesome APIs that its hard not to want to move to Flex.

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