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 the wide open planes of freedom and choice. I’m thankful, and grateful, to be a …
One of the many features of the University of Denver’s CourseMedia™ Course Media Management System is a Flash based module that allows students to study images along with metadata within a “matching game” type interface. Expanding upon and simplifying this idea for mobile, I’ve written the initial version of StudyShuffler using AIR for Android. StudyShuffler …
When I was first learning ActionScript 3.0 a few years back, the first thing I did was create a demo app called “Sketcher” which was a pure AS3 sketchpad written using FlashDevelop with the beta Flex 2 SDK. So when I needed a good starting project to work with AIR for Android, I decided to …
So I’m writing this post a number of days before I’ll have NDA clearance to publish anything regarding Android for AIR. Just want to record my first impressions here! Just got my first app running on my Motorola Droid and am so totally psyched about this! It’s actually unbelievably simple to author and package for …
There is a lot of exciting news for the Flash Platform community coming out of Barcelona, Spain at the Mobile World Congress. Firstly, Adobe has announced that Flash Player 10.1 is coming for almost all mobile operating systems including Android, the BlackBerry® platform, Symbian® OS, Palm® webOS and Windows Mobile®. Flash Player 10.1 is the …
Similar to the Nexus One demo, Adrian Ludwig shows Flash Player 10.1 running on the Motorola Droid. Sweet! This may be timed to coincide with CES 2010 in Las Vegas which begins today.
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak to a media distribution vendor who posed the question “Does your University have a mobile strategy?” Absolutely we do- at least my group of developers does. We’ve had the same strategy for a number of years now and that strategy is to hold and observe. This …