AS3 Code Libraries (APIs)

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3D Engines

• Papervision3D

  http://blog.papervision3d.org/

• Away 3D

  http://www.away3d.com/

• Sandy 3D

  http://www.flashsandy.org/

• Alter­na­tiva Plat­form

  http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/en/

• FIVe3D

  http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/

• WireEngine3D (we3d) — A light­weight and fast 3D Engine for Flash 8/9.

  http://osflash.org/we3d/

• Sharikura

  http://temp.roxik.com/datas/physics/

• Infinity3d — In Russian

  http://www.infinity3d-engine.com

• AS3Dmod — A cross-engine 3d mod­i­fier library for Flash

  http://code.google.com/p/as3dmod/

• nd3d — ND3D is a small and light­weight AS3 3D Engine

  http://code.google.com/p/nd3d/

3D Game Engines

• Paper­World 3D

  http://paperworld3d.com/

• Yogurt3D

  http://www.yogurt3d.com/

2D Game Engines

• Cit­rus Engine — Flash Sidescrolling Plat­form Game Engine (Commercial)

  http://www.citrusengine.com/

• Flash­Punk — Pro­vide you with a fast, clean frame­work for pro­to­typ­ing and devel­op­ing games.

  http://flashpunk.net/

• flixel — A col­lec­tion of Action­script 3 files that helps orga­nize, auto­mate, and opti­mize Flash games.

  http://flixel.org/

• Pix­el­Blitz Engine –A game frame­work for Actionscript3

  http://www.photonstorm.com/pixelblitz-engine

• Push­But­ton Engine — An Open Source, Flash game engine and frame­work that’s designed for a new gen­er­a­tion of games.

  http://pushbuttonengine.com/

Iso­met­ric Engines

• as3isolib — An open-source Action­Script 3.0 Iso­met­ric Library

  http://as3isolib.wordpress.com/

• FFil­ma­tion — AS3 Iso­met­ric Engine

  http://www.ffilmation.org/

• isoengineas3 — Flash Iso­met­ric Engine AS3

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/isoengineas3/

• Open­Space — Commercial

  http://www.openspace-engine.com/

• Sean Cooper Iso­met­ric Engine — Commercial

  http://www.games.seantcooper.com/IsometricEngine.aspx

• The­oWorlds — Commercial

  http://www.theoworlds.com/products.php

• T.I.L.E. (Tan­ger­ine Iso­met­ric Level Edi­tor) — Commercial

  http://www.tangerinepop.com/ then click on “TECH”

3D Ani­ma­tion Framework

• Cast3D

  http://www.cast3d.org/

3D Physics Engines

• WOW-Engine

  http://seraf.mediabox.fr/wow-engine/

• jiglibflash

  http://www.jiglibflash.com/blog/

Aug­mented Reality

• FLAR­Toolkit

  http://www.libspark.org/wiki/saqoosha/FLARToolKit/en

• FLAR­Man­ager

  http://words.transmote.com/wp/flarmanager/

• ARti­san

  http://onezerothrice.com/artisan/

Ani­ma­tion Tween­ing Engines

• Desuade Motion Pack­age — A break­through AS3 library that com­bines keyframe-sequencing, physics, and tween­ing.

  http://desuade.com/dmp

• Tween­Lite

  http://blog.greensock.com/tweenliteas3/

• Tween­Max

  http://blog.greensock.com/tweenmaxas3/

• Tweener — A class for cre­at­ing tweens in action­script 2 and 3 — because there’s infin­ity between 0 and 1.

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

• Tweensy

  http://www.lostinactionscript.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/31/as3-tween-engine-tweensy-preview/

• Tween­syZero — A light weight ver­sion of Tweensy.

  http://code.google.com/p/tweensy/wiki/TweensyZero

• GoASAP (Action­Script Ani­ma­tion Plat­form)

  http://www.goasap.org/

• AS3 Ani­ma­tion Sys­tem 2.0

  http://www.boostworthy.com/blog/?p=170

• Ani­ma­tion Pack­age

  http://www.alex-uhlmann.de/flash/animationpackage/

• Kitchen­Sync — Kitchen­Sync is an Action­Script 3.0 library for sequenc­ing ani­ma­tions and other time-based actions.

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

• Gyro — A tween and ani­ma­tion library for Action­Script 3.

  http://code.google.com/p/gyro-actionscript-animation/

• gTween

  http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/08/gtween_a_new_tw.html

• HydroTween + HydroSe­quence (based on GoASAP)

  http://blog.hydrotik.com/2008/07/19/hydrotween-hydrosequence-rev32/

• AS3 Eas­ing

  http://www.uza.lt/codex/as3-easing/

• Twease

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

• BetweenAS3

  http://www.be-interactive.org/works/20090428/slide_betweenas3.html

• ByteTween — Light weight engine (focus­ing in low Kb increase and not being a do-it-all engine).

  http://code.google.com/p/thelaboratory-tween/

• Eaze — Blaz­ing fast, chain­able and com­pact Flash AS3 tween­ing library

  http://code.google.com/p/eaze-tween/

• Actu­ate — Tween library for Action­script 3

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

• grape-as3 — Path-based Action­Script 3 ani­ma­tion library

  http://blog.generalrelativity.org/actionscript-30/grape-animation-library/

• Rab­bit­Tween — A new fast and easy transition/tween engine for Flash AS3

  http://blog.open-design.be/2009/09/26/rabbittween-new-fast-and-easy-transitiontween-engine-for-flash-as3/

2D Physics Engines

• APE (Action­script Physics Engine)

  http://www.cove.org/ape/index.htm

• Box2DFlashAS3

  http://box2dflash.sourceforge.net/

• FOAM — 2D Rigid Body Physics Engine.

  http://code.google.com/p/foam-as3/

• glaze — 2D Rigid Body Dynam­ics & Game Engine for Action­sc­tipt 3.

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

• motor2

  http://lab.polygonal.de/motor_physics/

• Fisix Engine

  http://www.fisixengine.com/default.asp

• Pop­Shapes

  http://lab.andre-michelle.com/physics-engine/

• Col­li­sion Detec­tion Kit

  http://coreyoneil.com/portfolio/index.php?project=5

• QuickBox2D — A mini-library cre­ated to work with Box2DFlashAS3

  http://actionsnippet.com/?page_id=1391

Secu­rity

• AS3Crypto

  http://crypto.hurlant.com/

Audio Libraries

• Pop­forge — Action­Script 3 code sand­box for var­i­ous packages.

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

• Sonoflash — Dynamic AS3 Audio (Commercial)

  http://www.sonoflash.com/

Par­ti­cle Systems

• FLiNT

  http://flintparticles.org/

• Par­ti­gen (Not free)

  http://desuade.com/products/partigen/

• Pulse Par­ti­cle Sys­tem — A gen­eral pur­pose AS3 par­ti­cle system.

  http://www.rogue-development.com/pulseParticles.html

• Emit­ter — Action­Script 3.0 par­ti­cle FX engine.

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

• Star­dust — Action­Script 3.0 Par­ti­cle engine.

  http://code.google.com/p/stardust-particle-engine/

• Orion — An all around sim­ple and flex­i­ble par­ti­cle generator.

  http://blog.coursevector.com/orion

• par­ti­cle­sun — A 3D or 2D Par­ti­cle Engine for Action­script 3.0

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

Data Visu­al­iza­tion

• Flare — Cre­ate inter­ac­tive data visu­al­iza­tions for the web.

  http://flare.prefuse.org/

Load­ing Kits

• Bulk­Loader — A library for man­ag­ing mul­ti­ple load­ings with Action­script 3 (AS3).

  http://code.google.com/p/bulk-loader/

• Mas­api — Flash/Flex/AIR AS3 Frame­work for the mas­sive load­ing (MassLoad)

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

• QueueLoaderAS3 — an action­script library for sequen­tial asset load­ing and monitoring

  http://wiki.github.com/hydrotik/QueueLoader/

• Soma­Loader — A light­weight load­ing man­ager writ­ten in AS3

  http://www.soundstep.com/blog/downloads/somaloader/

OOP Frame­works

• Cairn­gorm

  http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cairngorm/Cairngorm

• PureMVC

  http://puremvc.org/

• Mate

  http://mate.asfusion.com/

• Swiz — Bru­tally sim­ple micro-architecture for Rich Inter­net Appli­ca­tion devel­op­ment with Adobe Flex

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

• HydraMVC — A rewrite of the PureMVC API exclu­sively for Flex

  http://www.hydramvc.com/

• Robot­Legs — An Archi­tec­tural (or Struc­tural) Action Script 3 Framework

  http://shaun.boyblack.co.za/blog/category/robotlegs/

• Gaia — An open-source front-end Flash Frame­work for AS3 and AS2 designed to dra­mat­i­cally reduce devel­op­ment time

  http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/

• Lay­er­Glue — A frame­work aimed at rapid web­site devel­op­ment for Flash & Flex.

  http://www.layerglue.com

• Slide — An appli­ca­tion frame­work for Flex 2 and Flex 3

  http://code.google.com/p/flex-slide/

• Guasax — an ease of use pro­gram­ming frame­work to pro­vide ordered and scal­able Flex applications

  http://www.guasax.com/

• VEGAS — an AS3, AS2 and SSAS Open­Source Framework

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

• Pars­ley — an appli­ca­tion frame­work for Flex/Flash/AIR appli­ca­tions writ­ten in AS3

  http://www.spicefactory.org/parsley/

• LowRa — AS3 ver­sion of pixlib.

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

• CASA Lib — An Open Source Code Library for Action­Script 2.0 & 3.0

  http://casalib.org/

• Flash­MVC — A flex­able light­weight frame­work engine for AS3.

  http://www.flashmvc.com/

• Hive — A state-based MVC frame­work for AS3.

  http://code.google.com/p/as-hive/

• Soma and SomaUI — An AS3 MVC frame­work and soft­ware to gen­er­ate an AS3 flash site based on it.

  http://www.soundstep.com/blog/downloads/somaui/

• Spring Action­script — An off­shoot of the Java-based Spring Framework.

  http://www.springactionscript.org/

• Smar­ty­Pants IOC — Depen­dency Injec­tion for Adobe Flex and Flash

  http://smartypants.expantra.net/

• fosfr — AS3 open source framework

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

Other APIs and libraries

• facebook-actionscript-api — Action­script API for the Face­book platform.

  http://code.google.com/p/facebook-actionscript-api/

• as3facebooklib — Action­Script 3.0 API for Facebook.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3facebooklib/

• Yahoo Maps API

  http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/

• core­lib — Action­Script 3.0 library for sev­eral basic util­i­ties (JPEG Encod­ing, MD5 Hash­ing, JSON Serialization).

  http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/

• as3flexunitlib — Action­Script 3.0 frame­work for unit testing.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3flexunitlib/

• as3flickrlib — Action­Script 3.0 API for Flickr.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3flickrlib/

• as3mapprlib — Action­Script 3.0 API for Mappr.
• http://code.google.com/p/as3mapprlib/

• as3syndicationlib — Action­Script 3.0 library for han­dling syn­di­ca­tion feeds.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3syndicationlib/

• as3odeolib — Action­Script 3.0 API for Odeo.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3odeolib/

• as3youtubelib — Action­Script 3.0 API for YouTube.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3youtubelib/

• as3ebaylib — Action­Script 3.0 API for eBay.

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

• as3awss3lib — Action­Script 3.0 library for inter­act­ing with Ama­zon S3.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3awss3lib/

• as3soundeditorlib — Action­script 3.0 library for sound play­back, spec­trum dis­play, and cue point display.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3soundeditorlib/

• as3ds — AS3 Data Struc­tures For Game Developers.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3ds/

• as3notificationlib — A noti­fi­ca­tion frame­work writ­ten in AS3 for the Adobe Inte­grated Run­time (AIR).

  http://code.google.com/p/as3notificationlib/

• as3preferenceslib — An AIR library for stor­ing preferences.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3preferenceslib/

• as3nativealertlib — An AIR alert that appears in a native window.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3nativealertlib/

• ASCOLLADA — action­script library for pars­ing Col­lada files.

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

• FZip — An Action­script 3 class library to load, mod­ify and cre­ate stan­dard ZIP archives.

  http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/

• AS3 Zip Library — An Action­Script 3 based library for read­ing and writ­ing zip files.

  http://nochump.com/blog/?p=15

• lastfm-as3 — Action­script 3.0 API to access the Last.fm web services.

  http://code.google.com/p/lastfm-as3/

• MapQuest

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

• Mod­est Maps — A dis­play and inter­ac­tion library for tile-based maps in Flash.

  http://www.modestmaps.com/

• as3cards — An Action­Script 3.0 card engine and exam­ple games.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3cards/

• flexir­c­client — Action­Script 3 based IRC library.

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

• AsWing — A GUI frame­work and library that allows pro­gram­mers to make their flash application(or RIA) UI easily.

  http://www.aswing.org/

• as3httpclient — Action­Script 3 utils/classes to extend HTTP/HTTPS APIs in Flash Player 9 (onwards).

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

• Dis­tor­tion­Tweener

  http://evolve.reintroducing.com/2007/11/18/as3/as3-distortiontweener/

• ascan­vas — An adapter of HTML Can­vas and fl.display.Graphics

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

• dopplr-as3 — action­script 3 code for access­ing data from dopplr.com’s api.

  http://code.google.com/p/dopplr-as3/

• FC64 — an Open-Source Com­modore 64 Emulator.

  https://mirror1.cvsdude.com/trac/osflash/fc64/

• Google Maps API

  http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/intro.html

• FVNC — VNC Client for Flash Player 9 and above.

  http://osflash.org/fvnc

• AS3 Para­met­ric Curve Library

  http://www.algorithmist.net/as3pc.html

• AWI — AMFPHP-WordPress Integration.

  http://www.klr20mg.com/awi/ (in Spanish)

• as3webservice — Open-source Web­ser­vice class imple­men­ta­tion in AS3 for Flash CS3 IDE.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3webservice/

• as3jayrock — AS3 wrap­per for Jay­rock communication.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3jayrock/

• ASAP Library — A library for the devel­op­ment of main­tain­able, multi-movie, inter­ac­tive applications.

  http://asaplibrary.org/

• Word­press XML-RPC API

  http://blog.absentdesign.com/?page_id=22

• as3maillib — An Action­Script 3 email library.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3maillib/

• AlivePDF — Action­Script 3 Open-Source PDF Library – 100% client side PDF generation.

  http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/

• SWFAd­dress — Deep link­ing for Flash.

  http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/

• Flash Cam­ou­flage — Skin­ning frame­work for AS3.

  http://code.google.com/p/flash-camouflage/

• Flexlib — Open Source Flex Com­po­nent Library.

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

• Yahoo Astra Flash Com­po­nents

  http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-flash/

• as3-fullscreen-lib — A small lib used for scall­ing con­tent to the full size of the browser.

  http://code.google.com/p/as3-fullscreen-lib/

• coordy — An Action­script 3 Lay­out Framework.

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

• vec­torvi­sion — Vec­tors in papervision3D.

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

• WiiFlash — Com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the Wiimote and Flash.

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

• Stats — A sim­ple info box that will help you mon­i­tor your code performance.

  http://code.google.com/p/mrdoob/wiki/stats

• twit­ter­script — Twit­ter API in ActionScript

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

• oauth-as3 — OAuth Action­script library (use­ful for Twit­ter clients).

  http://code.google.com/p/oauth-as3/

• OAuth — AS3/Flex OAuth Library (use­ful for Twit­ter clients).

  http://github.com/srohde/OAuth/tree/master

• Nabaz­ta­gAPI — Nabaz­tag API wrap­per for Action­script 3.

  http://www.iotashan.com/NabaztagExplorer/

• SWFOb­ject — Standards-friendly method to embed Flash con­tent using one JavaScript file.

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

• tweetr — AS3 Twit­ter API

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

• myLib — A pow­er­ful open source frame­work designed for advanced com­po­nents pro­gram­ming with Adobe Flash AS3 projects.

  http://mylib.samystudio.net/

• as3scribdlib — Action­Script 3.0 API for Scribd

  http://code.google.com/p/as3scribdlib/

• FDOT — A col­lec­tion of Action­Script 3 classes that make hard things easier.

  http://onflash.org/ted/2009/08/fdot-making-hard-things-easier.php

• xpath-as3 — An XPath imple­men­ta­tion for Action­Script 3.0

  http://code.google.com/p/xpath-as3/

• DirectorAS3 — Library for SlideShow­Pro Director

  http://www.tuftandco.net/DirectorAS3/

• SWX — The Native Data For­mat for Adobe Flash

  http://code.google.com/p/swx-format/

• openplatform-flash — AS3 client library for The Guardian Open Platform

  http://code.google.com/p/openplatform-flash/

• ARTion­script — An AS3 ‘Gen­er­a­tive Art’ Framework

  http://artionscript.com/

• ffffound-as3-api — FFFFOUND! (unof­fi­cial) AS3 API

  http://toki-woki.net/blog/p336-ffffound-as3-api

• col­or­munch — Action­script (AS3) library for the Adobe Kuler API

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

• GpxAS3 — A library for pars­ing and manip­u­lat­ing GPX (GPS Exchange For­mat) files.

  http://github.com/ryanstewart/GpxAS3/tree

• gafor­flash — Google Ana­lyt­ics Track­ing For Adobe Flash

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

• min­i­mal­comps — Min­i­mal Action­Script 3.0 code only UI com­po­nents (Keith Peters)

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

• HYPE Frame­work — A col­lab­o­ra­tive visual frame­work (Bran­den Hall and Joshua Davis)

  http://hype.joshuadavis.com/

• Tem­po­Lite — A small, effi­cient media library

  http://blog.coursevector.com/tempolite

• Sound­Man­ager — Makes adding sounds to your projects super simple

  http://evolve.reintroducing.com/2008/07/15/news/as3-soundmanager/

• TextFlow­Pro — Enables you to flow a series of textfields together so that they act as a sin­gle text container

  http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2009/01/editable_multif.html

• Ani­mat­ed­Bitmap - Pro­vides func­tion­al­ity for Bitmap objects that are ani­mated by using a series of still images

  http://blog.hexagonstar.com/animatedbitmapclass/

• Active Win­dow Blur

  http://blog.onebyonedesign.com/?p=81

• SWF­size — Works with SWFOb­ject and pro­vides con­trol over the swf’s con­tainer metrics

  http://chargedweb.com/swfsize/

• as3-signals — Sig­nals is a new approach for AS3 events, inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt

  http://wiki.github.com/robertpenner/as3-signals/

• swf­fit — Not an AS3 library, but a JavaScript file that adds scroll­bars to the browser when smaller than a spec­i­fied size

  http://swffit.millermedeiros.com/

• lib­scorm — Not an AS3 library, but a JavaScript library for cre­at­ing SCORM 2004 courses in Flash or HTML

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

• pipwerks.SCORM — Adding basic SCORM func­tion­al­ity to an exist­ing Flash file

  http://pipwerks.com/2008/04/27/how-to-add-basic-scorm-code-to-a-flash-movie/

• custom-context-menu — Cap­ture right-click events in Flash / Flex (AS 3)

  http://code.google.com/p/custom-context-menu/

• Library & Library­Man­ager — For using exter­nal assets in your flash projects.

  http://www.tink.ws/blog/library-librarymanager/

• DataS­truc­tures — HaXe/AS3 library for game developers

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

• mid­itoflash — Receive midi events in Flash from any midi device through Java and JavaScript

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

• ASBlender — Action­script 3 library for read­ing Blender .blend files

  http://wiki.github.com/timknip/asblender/

• Open­Pyro — An Open Source Action­Script 3 frame­work built for cre­at­ing Rich Inter­net Applications

  http://www.openpyro.org/

• Tur­boSig­nals — A library imple­ment­ing the sig­nals and slots design pattern

  http://jacksondunstan.com/turbosignals

• evoTinyEngine — Demo scene engine

  http://www.simppa.fi/blog/opensource-demo-engine-evotinyengine/

• Flash­SURF — SURF (Speeded Up Robust Fea­tures) fea­ture extrac­tion library writ­ten in Flash using Alchemy

  http://code.google.com/p/in-spirit/wiki/FlashSurf

• XML-RPC — Easy way to get Flash to trans­fer data with an XML-RPC endpoint

  http://danielmclaren.net/2007/08/03/xmlrpc-for-actionscript-30-free-library

• as3-rpclib — Action­script 3 RPC libraries for flash-remoting(amf0), xml-rpc, json-rpc

  http://code.google.com/p/as3-rpclib/

• as3swf — Low level Action­script 3 library to parse, cre­ate, mod­ify and pub­lish SWF files.

  http://github.com/claus/as3swf

• Browser­Can­vas — The World’s Eas­i­est Way to Dynam­i­cally Resize Flash

  http://www.dncompute.com/blog/2008/06/23/browsercanvas-the-worlds-easiest-way-to-dynamically-resize-flash.html

• Chain — Delayed func­tion calling

  http://blog.stroep.nl/2009/11/delayed-function-calling-chain/

• App Ana­lyt­ics — Com­plete ana­lyrics solu­tion for Adobe AIR applications

  http://www.appanalyticshq.com/

• gov­er­nor — A mul­ti­thread­ing script engine

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

• mojo­col­ors — An Action­script 3 color library inspired by the great Node­box Col­ors library

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

• flashdraw3d — A very light­weight 3d draw­ing API for Flash

  http://code.google.com/p/flashdraw3d/

• Sprouts — An open-source, cross-platform project gen­er­a­tion and con­fig­u­ra­tion tool

  http://projectsprouts.org/

• ZaaIL — 40+ Image for­mat sup­port for Flash

  http://www.zaalabs.com/2010/04/introducing-zaail-40-image-format-support-for-flash/

• Mouse­Wheel­Trap — A fix for unwanted simul­ta­ne­ous Flash and browser scrolling behav­iour in AS3

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

• FLVS­licer — A sim­ple FLV slicer and merger

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