Native Text Input UI (mobile) — Mobile apps can now take advantage of the native text input controls on mobile platforms, including platform-specific user interaction behaviors such as magnification and text selection. Native text controls are available on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS operating systems.

Native extensions for Adobe AIR are a combination of ActionScript classes and native code that provide easy access to device-specific libraries and features that are not available in the built-in ActionScript classes.

Want to use it in your own projects? Adobe has made it available for download here :)

…and a few others are also available from the Adobe Developer Connection repository! I have a feeling we’ll be seeing a lot of these pop up in the weeks and months to come.

Mobile Development with Flash Professional CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5: Learn by Video
Create Android and iOS Applications with the Flash Platform

Authors: video2brain, Peter Elst, Joseph Labrecque
Publisher: Peachpit / Adobe Press (September, 2011)
ISBN-10: 0321788109
ISBN-13: 978-0321788108
Pages: 48
Hours: 7.20

In this in-depth course you’ll learn everything you need to know to start developing for mobile and devices on Android and iOS using Flash Platform technology. Top Flash Platform experts Peter Elst and Joseph Labrecque will walk you through the entire workflow from application setup to development and deployment, covering best practices for mobile development and how to debug the applications you create on the desktop or on a device. Along the way you’ll learn how to work with gestures, touch events, hardware APIs, data, multimedia features, and much more. After completing this course you’ll be well on your way to making your mobile projects a reality.

The following videos are FREE:

• What Is Adobe AIR and How Does It Fit In?
• Working with Different Screen Sizes
• Debugging on the Desktop
• Pushing a View
• Using the Zoom Gesture to Pinch and Zoom
• Opening the Maps Application on Android
• Playing Video Files
• Using the iOS Provisioning Portal
• Signing Your Application

As always, you can get to all of my major publications through http://josephlabrecque.com/books/.

I was curious how the feed would look over a variety of devices. Here are the results :)

Microsoft Windows 7

BlackBerry Tablet OS

Google Android

Excellent!

UPDATE: Also be sure to check out Tom Green‘s overview over at WebdesignTuts+!

Getting Started with Strobe Media Playback: Basic Configuration

Strobe Media Playback is the open source video playback module that provides not only a customizable video playback solution for developers, but also serves as a great entry point for developing applications with the Open Source Media Framework. In this tutorial, we will see an example of how to configure SMB by using the built-in skinning configuration mechanisms and creating our custom skin with Adobe Fireworks.

Getting Started with Strobe Media Playback: Full Customization

Strobe Media Playback is the open source video playback module that provides not only a customizable video playback solution for developers, but also serves as a great entry point for developing applications with the Open Source Media Framework. In this tutorial, we will see an example of how to set up the source and compile our own customized version of SMB by editing the built-in assets through Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Flash Builder.

Join Joseph Labrecque [Adobe Education Leader, Higher Ed] from the University of Denver as he provides a session demonstrating the uniquely portable nature of the Adobe CS5 toolchain originating in Illustrator and branching out to Photoshop, InDesign, and finally Flash Catalyst. See how you can easily take some Winter scene assets and use them across Adobe tools to create a printed postcard, interactive flip-page greeting, or animated snowscape all using the same asset pool!

Download the starter assets!

*”9 year old” daughter? no… 9 month old… geez, Joseph :P

Here is a quick overview video which ties all the pieces of this project together:

As an example of this, I contribute the following video; within which I demonstrate some of the nifty audio/video/image tools which are part of the CourseMedia™ application at the University of Denver: