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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Feb 14, 2012
OMFG! That is all I can say. I leave for a couple weeks, to attend the HTML5 Summit in Miami and a department offsite in San Jose, only to return to an enormous backlog of awesome posts from the Flash community. First off, the innovation happening in Stage3D only seems to be accelerating lately as people become more comfortable with the tools it provides....
Feb 6, 2012
In the first 2012 session; I spoke about how I finally got my first mobile game, Igor Knots and the Magonda Maze to perform really well on mobile devices. 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...
Jan 27, 2012
A busy week (or so) of posts. The hot topic lately seems to be not just Stage3 but specifically 2D game development using Stage3D. Each week seems to bring upates to new or existing game engines and frameworks for 2D game development as well as tutorials on the topic. This week is no exception. Cool Stage3D Stuff A new version the Genome2D framework...
Jan 26, 2012
Back in the summer, I was lucky enough to get my hands on some early builds of Stage3D for mobile. I built some simple examples, including basic geometric shapes and simple 3D bubble charts inside of mobile Flex/AIR applications. I have been asked numerous times for the source code, and I’ve finally given in, and am sharing some source code. I am not...
Jan 23, 2012
With the shift of my focus on Flash's gaming focus it means I get to attend game conferences. Adobe will have a presence at GDC and Flash Game Summit as well as other events through the year. I will be in San Francisco for both Flash Game Summit and GDC. If you haven't taken the time to come up to speed on Flash Player's current useful gaming features and...
Jan 23, 2012
Flex is now an Apache project in incubation (as PhoneGap under the name ‘Cordova’). The community is hyper-active and it’s not a surprise. If you look at what the community has achieved around Flex since its creation, you’ll directly understand why Apache Flex will be successful. Macromedia, and then Adobe, defined Flex’s vision,...
Jan 20, 2012
Flash Builder 4.6 includes a new feature to allow you to add a dynamic splash screen component to your mobile application. This feature will allow you to load a different image based on a few different properties you can set to ensure you get the best image for the right device. The properties you can use to determine which image is displayed for the splash...
Jan 19, 2012
It’s been quite the roller coaster in the Flex world these past few months to say the least! Now seemed like a good time for an update on the latest status of things. Adobe Flex to Apache Flex Adobe Flex is now Apache Flex (in case you’ve been under a rock lately or perhaps just discovered Flex ). It’s been contributed to the Apache...
