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Quick Tip: Compression in Flash

While working on one of my projects where I needed compression for transfered data, I hit some very interesting compression libraries. Also the ByteArray class contains compress method, using zlib algorithm in flash player or multiple algorithms in AIR. At the end I decided to use ByteArray.compress() method for encoding vs. PHP gzuncompress for decoding, what works correctly, fast and smooth.

Here is a list of 3rd party compression libraries and other good stuff:

AS3 Zip: ActionScript 3 based library for reading and writing zip files

FZip: FZip is an Actionscript 3 class library to load, modify and create standard ZIP archives.

ASZip: ActionScript 3 library to generate ZIP files

LZMA Encoder: AS3 class to compress data using LZMA algorithm.

LZMA Decoder: A part of the apparat framework.

GZIP: ActionScript GZIP compression library

Gzip for HTTPService/URLLoader: Adding Gzip support for Flex/AIR HTTPService/URLLoader

airxzip: Zip library for ActionScript3 on AIR

If you know some more, please let me know.