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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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
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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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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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The new Flash Builder 4.7 has a nice compile option which can be enabled in pure ActionScript projects to enable detailed telemetry for measurement and profile via Adobe Scout. What about Flex projects? What about projects created with Flash Professional? Wouldn’t you want to use these with Scout as well? Adobe does have a solution
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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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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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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
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Adobe today has announced that they will play a strategic role in the formation of a new non-profit open source organization, The Away Foundation, through funding and endorsement of the popular Away3D framework as the recommended open source 3D framework for mobile, desktop and television games powered by Flash technology (Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash
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Adobe has scheduled a full series of six webinars focused on building games for iOS using Flash and AIR! If you’ve ever wanted to get into this growing area – this should be a really nice opportunity to do so. The series will cover Adobe Flash technologies for development of games and apps for iOS,
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