Tag Archives: Flash

Flash Player 10.1 + Adobe AIR 2.0 Released!

Adobe has released both Flash Platform runtimes this afternoon: Flash Player 10.1 Adobe AIR 2.0 I’ve never seen so much work go into a Flash Player release (7 release candidates!!!). Grab ‘em now! Congratulations to the engineering teams for a … Continue reading

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The Tide is Turning in Favor of Flash

Apple is increasingly finding itself alone in the war for choice on the web, the pocket, and the home as companies and other groups rally behind the Flash Platform. The latest news is that Opera’s Jon von Tetzchner has come … Continue reading

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AIR for Android: Expanded View of “StudyShuffler”

I mentioned before that while most people in the AIR for Android prerelease program are porting their iPhone applications over from Packager for iPhone projects to AIR for Android, I’ve been working more or less from scratch on my projects. … Continue reading

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A New Era of Openness and Collaboration

Something is happening… a shift in thinking. A movement to embrace the best technologies available to provide developers with the most compelling platforms, and users with the most pleasant of experiences. A shift away from single gatekeeper systems and toward … Continue reading

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Strange ActionScript dispatchEvent / addEventListener Gotcha

I came across a strange situation over the weekend where a custom event being broadcast through dispatchEvent() was not being caught by the registered listener object. To make things even more bizarre, hasEventListener() definitely showed the event as registered, and … Continue reading

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