Having been on vacation – I’m a bit late in posting this… but last week was invited to join Apache Flex as a committer. I accepted :) The Apache Flex PMC is excited to welcome Joseph Labrecque as our newest committer! Joseph has been steadily contributing to the Flash and Flex community for several years. …
As mentioned in my previous post about Apache Flex® and Adobe® AIR® with IntelliJ IDEA… I have also recorded a free series of videos around Starling, Feathers, and Adobe AIR with IntelliJ IDEA. You may be aware that I have a full, extended course on using Starling and Feathers to build a mobile application using …
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I have recorded a free series of 10 videos around Apache Flex and Adobe AIR with IntelliJ IDEA. I believe that moving forward, IntelliJ IDEA is the best IDE for learning and using Apache Flex. Adobe Flash Builder used to fill this role, but Adobe has discontinued it’s free licensing to students for some time …
Apache Flex 4.14 has been released and is now available! What’s new: iOS 7+ and Android 4.x+ mobile theme support New Spark components skin: FlatSpark Spark RichTextEditor Native support for tables in TLF Promises/A+ AIR 16 and Flash Player 16 Support Many, many bug fixes – full release notes here Congratulations to the Apache Flex …
Apache has made the first official (alpha) version of the new FlexJS framework available to download. The BEST way to acquire this is to use the new Apache Flex SDK Installer version 3.0. Check out the official announcement and read up on the FlexJS wiki. What is FlexJS? It is an application framework for which …
When using Apache Flex 4.11 (or 4.12) – and the Spark VideoDisplay component (based around OSMF)… you may encounter the following runtime error: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. This happens when attempting to reference the videoObject element of a VideoDisplay component. For example, when attaching a …
With the release of Apache Flex 4.12.0, users can now get the SDK and related libraries through use of the excellent AIR-based installer. A few choices, a couple clicks, and you have the final bits. So what’s new in this release of Flex? Here are the release notes and official Apache announcement. Once you have …
Updates to Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 betas Adobe has updated the beta runtimes to include some really cool new features on top of the ones which have already been announced. These include an improved packager for iOS, ANE resource improvements in Android, textfield enhancements for desktop, and a new Context3D convenience array. More …
A ton of things happened in the Flash Platform world over the past week. There is a lot to take in – so let’s get started! Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 betas This week saw the initial beta releases for both Flash Player 12 and Adobe AIR 4. The Adobe Flash Platform runtimes, Flash …
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As the end of the year approaches, I imagine news will thin out a bit as people go about celebrating holidays and wrapping up the current year. This may go bi-weekly during this time depending upon how much news there is. This week also includes a pretty significant milestone: the 2 year anniversary of the …
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Apache Flex 4.11 Released! The Apache Flex 4.11.0 release contains many improvements that professional software development teams will appreciate. This advances the framework forward. It is truly one of the best cross-platform programming languages used to write applications that are testable and can be compiled to run on multiple technology platforms from a single set …
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Feathers 1.2 BETA This beta release includes a few new components, including Alert, Drawers, and LayoutGroup as well as many new minor features and a number of bug fixes. Read up on the details over at the Feathers discussion forum. 360|Flex 2014 After 360|Stack this past Summer, it seems there was enough interest in Flex voiced …
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