Light-weight, skinnable, and extensible UI components for mobile and desktop. Feathers puts it all together in one package — along with blazing fast GPU powered graphics (courtesy of Starling Framework) to create a smooth and responsive experience. This is really neat – the UI component library formerly known as “Foxhole” is now called “Feathers” and …
This article originally appeared as part of Transitioning.to. Traditionally, those of us designing animated or highly interactive content for the web have been able to rely on Adobe Flash Player to display this content without issue across Windows, Mac, and Linux. In fact, the Google Chromium team reports that Flash Player is still installed on …
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In 2010, I introduced the idea for a “Community Compilation CD” with the following words: One of the aspects I greatly admire about the communities I interface with (primarily Flash developers, but digital tech people of all stripes) is that there is such a diverse amount of talent, interest, and drive among these individuals. More …
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Looking at getting into gaming using Flash, Unity, or HTML5? Want to see some great examples of gaming using these and other tech? Want full source code for all these examples to learn from? If any of this interests you – you’ll be happy to have a look at the 1400+ games developed during Ludum …
Adobe has dropped a number of tech previews onto Labs last night, including a beta of Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 featuring the new Falcon compiler and also some interesting AIR SDK previews. Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 Flash Builder 4.7 beta is the first version to be offered as a 64-bit application. While there is support …
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Adobe today released both Flash Player 11.4 for desktop browsers and AIR 3.4 for both desktop and mobile operating systems. This release includes new features as well as enhancements and bug fixes related to security, stability, performance, and device compatibility for the runtimes previously code-named “Dolores” as outlined in the Adobe roadmap for the Flash …
The newest public version of Adobe Edge – “Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7” – is now available for download from Adobe Labs! Aside from the obvious branding changes (the addition of the term “Animate” in the product name), this version of the application contains a ton of new functionality and some real polish. Why was …
With Flash Player 11.3 and above, the ability to detect a mouse release outside of embedded Flash content makes a triumphant return! Missing in ActionScript 3.0 from Flash Player 9 onward, crafty developers have come up with some strange hacks to compensate for the missing event – but with the modern Flash Player runtime such …
How great! My new course (in partnership with video2brain, Peachpit Press, and Adobe Press) is now available as a retail boxed DVD set with booklet or as an online resource. This is the final of my Flash Professional CS6 training courses for this cycle and is the longest of them all – clocking in at …
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During the Adobe Education Leader Institute each year, AELs have the opportunity to become certified in the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exams managed through Certiport. I took the three certification exams for CS4 (during that timeframe) and have skipped the past two years so figured it was time to go ahead and take them again …
During my Flash gaming workshop at the Adobe Education Leader Institute, we built out a little game which covers the following game development concepts; Timing, Mouse Interaction, Character Movement, Rotation, Scrolling Backgrounds, Obstacles, Collision Detection, Game Loop, Scoreboard, Player Health, Sound Management, States, Constraints, Packages/Classes, Garbage Collection, and Game Cleanup! The game is called Flash …
As expected, I had a great time at my fourth Adobe Education Leader Institute this year. Presenting, discussing, networking, sharing, and learning – there is truly no other gathering like it. I was able to present a talk on the persistent value of the Flash Platform in education, provide a workshop in Flash game design, …
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