Coauthoring AS3 with Animate?

[garyk1639025]

Hi folks,

I'm working on an app and have been using animate cc coding in as3.

I'd like to bring in another coder to collaborate but I don't know how to do this.

I've heard of Github and things, but can this be used with Animate cc? What is the best way to share code and manage updates etc?

Thanks

Gary

[PippoApps · Accepted solution]

Hi Gary,

yes you can Use Animate sourcefiles on github.

Keep in mind though that assets, such as video, images and sounds, shouldn't stay on github because they take a lot of space and it doesn't handle well binaries.

Though, sometimes I also put a lot of binaries on github and do not have any problem.

It is obviously better if you save FLA file as FXL, open, so that it is not a single binary.

Obviously keep AS3 outside of flash project, and use external .as files.

Try to update the fla the less possible, and obviously do not work on it at the same time with other team mebers.

Besides that, all git collaboration best practices apply.

I do use Animate CC a lot to compile apps, and collaborate with other developers on git, so yes you can do it.