Adobe Runtimes product manager, Chris Campbell, has announced at Flash Online Conference #9 that an upcoming version of AIR for Android will be supporting Intel x86 CPU-driven tablets! Following this announcement, a blog post was published on the Adobe website with further details. “The Adobe AIR platform is stronger than ever. Today, Adobe AIR powers …
This was the title of my latest presentation for the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group… and may very well be the final presentation for that group, ever. If anyone in the Denver area is interested in taking up his great little user group – get in touch with the nice people at RealEyes! Bittersweet. Description: …
Getting Started with Starling and Feathers from Joseph Labrecque I recently presented on this topic for the Hawaii Flash Adobe User Group. Slides are above – recording is below! In this presentation, Joseph Labrecque shows you how to use the Feathers and Starling user interface frameworks along with Stage3D to build out mobile applications with …
These tutorials are single movies from Building a Mobile App with Feathers and Starling by lynda.com author Joseph Labrecque. The complete course is 2 hours and 1 minute and shows how to use the Feathers and Starling user interface frameworks along with Stage3D to build out mobile applications with Adobe AIR. Feathers and Starling tutorial: …
Updates to Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 betas Adobe has updated the beta runtimes to include some really cool new features on top of the ones which have already been announced. These include an improved packager for iOS, ANE resource improvements in Android, textfield enhancements for desktop, and a new Context3D convenience array. More …
A ton of things happened in the Flash Platform world over the past week. There is a lot to take in – so let’s get started! Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 betas This week saw the initial beta releases for both Flash Player 12 and Adobe AIR 4. The Adobe Flash Platform runtimes, Flash …
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Very pleased to see my new course with Lynda.com, “Building a Mobile App with Feathers and Starling“, published to the online training library. There are a number of free sample videos from the course that anyone can access – and subscribers can complete the entire course from start to finish. If you are looking to …
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As the end of the year approaches, I imagine news will thin out a bit as people go about celebrating holidays and wrapping up the current year. This may go bi-weekly during this time depending upon how much news there is. This week also includes a pretty significant milestone: the 2 year anniversary of the …
Flash Platform Rundown – Week of November 3rd, 2013 Read More »
Apache Flex 4.11 Released! The Apache Flex 4.11.0 release contains many improvements that professional software development teams will appreciate. This advances the framework forward. It is truly one of the best cross-platform programming languages used to write applications that are testable and can be compiled to run on multiple technology platforms from a single set …
Flash Platform Rundown – Week of October 27th, 2013 Read More »
Video demonstration of how to update the Adobe AIR SDK and new compiler which is bundled with Flash Builder 4.7
Apache Flex is great for application UI… but it isn’t GPU-accelerated :( New versions of Adobe AIR perform quite spectacularly on mobile and really blaze when tapping into the device GPU. If your mobile application requires this sort of performance – there is a solution to be found in the Starling framework along with Feathers …
Earlier today, I found the need to generate and make use of a large JSON dataset for populating a list within a mobile app experience. I needed thousands of records to test and all of the sample JSON files I could find were pretty small, simple things. I reached out on Twitter and recieved a …