by the Adobe Platform Evangelism Team
Short answer: no. But I’m investing in HTML5. (really) Long answer: see below. After returning from the Flex Summit, many people have contacted me asking what was going to...
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Platform Evangelist Michael Chaize highlights the differences in UI design when developing apps for tablets or phones, and explains how to quickly adapt your application for either...
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Join Technical Evangelist Holly Schinsky as she introduces Adobe AIR Launchpad, a new tool for jump-starting your AIR app development for desktop and mobile. View Holly...
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Is it possible to build an application that will work across different devices that have very different form factors, screen resolutions, and physical screen sizes? Let’s narrow...
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Apr 9, 2012
If you’re looking for a great conference to attend, 360|Flex is right around the corner and you should definitely make a point of checking it out. Most developers consider this to be *the* conference to attend and glancing at the schedule, you can see why. My fellow teammate, Christophe Coenraets is going to be doing the keynote and has some fun in store...
Mar 29, 2012
A license is needed for your SWF if it uses premium features. The current premium feature that requires a license is a SWF that makes use of Stage3D and ApplicationDomain.domainMemory APIs at the same time. If only one is used without the other a license is not required. Still not sure if your application requires the license? Well there is a way to find out...
Mar 19, 2012
This week I demonstrate the Flex Mobile Date Spinner. Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur the first and third Friday of every month at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com. I hope I can help answer some of your questions at...
Mar 8, 2012
You can now try out the Epic Games Unreal engine running in the browser for yourself. All you need is the Flash Player 11.2 RC installed and then go to the http://unrealengine.com/flash/ website. Here is a screenshot of it running in Chrome on my MacBook Pro: Mark Rein form Epic Games talks about the latest Unreal demo at GDC. At the Adobe GDC booth you can...
Mar 6, 2012
Flash Game Summit is held before the big Game Developer Conference (GDC). The 2012 Flash Game Summit was a great turn out, with a wide variety of attendees. Because you get a crowd that usually comes in for GDC from around the world Flash Game Summit has people and companies from all over the world. Adobe is a sponsor and this year they provided live streaming...
Feb 22, 2012
Following quickly on the heels of the Flex White Paper, you can now find on the ADC the Adobe Roadmap for the Flash Runtimes. The Flash white paper provides an overview of the Flash runtimes and a roadmap for their development. This will give you some insight into our current thinking and plans around Flash functionality in the Flash Player and AIR over the...
Feb 15, 2012
There have been a lot of questions about the viability and future of Flex recently, and Adobe has published an official whitepaper today detailing their support for Flex going forward. The paper also contains details regarding Flash runtime support, Flash Builder support and other Apache contributions including the Falcon compiler. I believe the paper is a must...
Feb 15, 2012
As promised, a white paper has been published on the ADC detailing Adobe’s view of Flex and its commitments to Flex in the future. Hopefully this should answer most if not all of your questions. You can find the Flex whitepaper here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html Note that we will also be updating previous posts to point to...
