Today, Adobe released a statement titled “The Future of Adobe AIR” announcing that in this coming month of June, ongoing feature development and platform support would be moving to Harman – a company owned by Samsung: As of June 2019, Adobe is transitioning ongoing platform support and feature development of AIR to HARMAN. This will …
Adobe has announced that they plan, in cooperation with browser vendors, to end-of-life Flash Player in 2020. It is important to note a few things here… this is only in regard to Flash Player not AIR! The AIR team have some very cool stuff on the roadmap and AIR will continue on, regardless. Additionally, we …
I have a new course with Pluralsight focusing on using Adobe Animate CC to write cross-platform desktop applications with Adobe AIR! Animate CC Building AIR Desktop Applications Have you ever wanted to design and develop fully installable, cross-platform desktop applications within a single, fun to use environment? In this course, Animate CC Building AIR Desktop …
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Following the release of Animate CC Game Development on Pluralsight a few weeks back… comes the re-publication of another Train Simple course – Animate CC Mobile App Development! In this course, you will see how to take advantage of mobile device hardware using new API’s in ActionScript 3.0. You’ll see how you can produce apps …
My new book with Peachpit and Adobe Press, Learn Adobe Animate CC for Interactive Media, is now available from the publisher and also retailers like Amazon.com and physical bookstores. I received author copies the other day and am so pleased with how it came out. The materials and layout just scream quality! The book itself provides …
Earlier this year, I became involved in a project for Adobe and the Computer History Museum for the purpose of creating and interactive exhibit for the 25th anniversary of Adobe Photoshop. For this interactive, we used Adobe AIR to communicate with Photoshop over the local server, and respond to messages being returned by Photoshop to …
This is the second part of a two-part series regarding correspondence with Adobe around Flash Professional over the past few years. I encourage you to read the first part as well. The following comes about based upon some emails previous to the “Create Now 2014 World Tour” Adobe launched that year, which I did participate in as a …
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Over the past few years, I’ve argued – passionately discussed – with Adobe as to why they should be paying much more attention to Flash Professional (soon to be Animate CC) as a creative tool. I spoke with many people about the value of Flash Professional and the wider Flash Platform… across many segments of the company… and …
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Adobe has announced the release of all new versions of the major desktop applications available through Creative Cloud. There are a couple of applications which have not had updates made available during this milestone release… primary among those is Flash Professional CC. Flash Professional CC is now Animate CC Flash Professional has had a strong …
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As mentioned in my previous post about Apache Flex® and Adobe® AIR® with IntelliJ IDEA… I have also recorded a free series of videos around Starling, Feathers, and Adobe AIR with IntelliJ IDEA. You may be aware that I have a full, extended course on using Starling and Feathers to build a mobile application using …
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I have recorded a free series of 10 videos around Apache Flex and Adobe AIR with IntelliJ IDEA. I believe that moving forward, IntelliJ IDEA is the best IDE for learning and using Apache Flex. Adobe Flash Builder used to fill this role, but Adobe has discontinued it’s free licensing to students for some time …
Last Friday, I gave a talk for the Hawaii Flash Adobe User Group entitled “Flash Professional CC: Multiplatform Creativity Engine”. Description, slides, and recording link follow… With Flash Professional CC 2014, it is possible publish animations to a wide number of targets – including Flash Player, AIR, iOS, Android, HTML5, WebGL, and even custom platforms …
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