2.2.1 Selection of Development Environment
The development environment consists of three main characteristics: a) Power, b) Flexibility and c)
Accessibility. As for the tool of the design, current software programs, Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 were
selected as the development environment. The software includes 2D authoring tool that support for creating
interactive and dynamic multimedia content and also provide support for publishing mobile applications or apps
for iOS and Android market. The software also provides powerful and accessible programming language, known
as Actionscript. This programming language is easily accessible even to those who are not familiar with coding
opens to develop the project with the software. Thus, this development environment is adequately powerful,
flexible and accessible for experimentation and exploration of alternatives. In this study, Adobe Flash
Professional CS5.5 was selected as development environment to create iPad apps that serve as a technology tool
to support students in learning Authoring System subject. Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 provides support for
publishing mobile for iOS platform. Designer need to modify the publish setting and select AIR for iOS.
Then, a researcher will continue with the design process. Firstly, it started with the components of learning
environment such as preparing the storyboard, the interface and also the instructional strategies. Table 1 indicates
the outlines of each developed apps and its descriptions on learning topic, project based tasks and integration of
project based learning criteria by Larmer (2012), embedded for each app.