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 […]
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With Flash Professional CS6, Adobe released an extension called “Toolkit for CreateJS” which allowed Flash Professional content to be exported for use in the HTML5 canvas element via CreateJS libraries. With Flash Professional CC – the toolkit is actually integrated into the core product. Why stop at CreateJS? Along with Flash Professional CC – Adobe
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With Adobe AIR 3.8 and Flash Player 11.8 now in beta – I’d like to highlight some of the really neat new features being implemented in the runtimes. Many of them are pretty major and have been sought after for some time now… Want to catch up on release version features through guides, API references,
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So… remember back in September of 2011 when Microsoft declared that Flash Player and other “plugins” would be barred from Internet Explorer in the Modern UI version of the browser? Remember in May of 2012 when Microsoft relented and in place of an all-out ban, devised a troublesome whitelist which developers had to submit requests
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My children are absolutely in love with this game (and so am I)! Crush swarms of cooties beneath your fingertips. Clear them all before time runs out and advance to the next challenge. Cootie crushing fun for everyone! Casual game geared toward children – but challenging for adults as well. Beat your high score and
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Adobe has updated the Flash Runtimes Roadmap whitepaper for the new year and there are some significant changes from previous iterations. Some of this is good, some questionable… and some bad: New documentation of the SWF file format has been made available (good) XC APIs are no longer designated as Premium Features (good) New info
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I learned a couple of neat things while working on TelemetryEASY that have to do with some limitations of Starling and also communication between Starling and the traditional display list. You might wonder… why bother using Stage3D frameworks at all for a simple utility app? Mostly to increase my familiarity with Starling and especially to
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Two new major Flash Platform releases have occurred: a new version of the Flash Builder development tool and a brand new product: Adobe Scout! This is part of the larger Adobe Game Developer Tools initiative – part of the Creative Cloud. Flash Builder 4.7 After two beta releases on Adobe Labs, Flash Builder 4.7 has
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Adobe has announced a great new addition to the Creative Cloud: Game Developer Tools! The addition of this set of tools reinforces a commitment to the Flash Platform on top of the already rapid advances in runtimes we’ve seen over the past year. Making this new set of gaming tools a part of the Creative
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Project Monocle (codename) is an upcoming tool from Adobe to profile ActionScript 3 (Flash Player and AIR) applications on both desktop and mobile. It provides an amazing level of insight into just about all aspecs of an application across time. If you would like a general overview of its capabilities, here is a nice video.
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Adobe rolled out a bunch of new Flash goodies on the Labs site this evening; a new version of SWF Investigator, a Configurator release candidate, and the first betas of Flash Player 11.5 and AIR 3.5! We also have a new updater for Flash Professional CS6 and the announcement of the Adobe Game Jams… phew!
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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
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