In my last post “Using Flex Hero RSL Enhancements” I discussed some of the new Flex Hero features around RSL Enhancements. I wanted to finish off the discussion with some information about the new “include-inheritance-dependencies-only” addition to compc, which added to make monkey patching with RSL’s easier. Lets just say it made one manual step easier, the whole process is still a bit complex. The main goal of...

One of the new features of the Flex Hero SDK is RSL Enhancements. I wanted to understand what this new feature really means for Flex projects and applications. The following post will show the differences in Flash Builder 4 projects and then use a custom Flex 4 preloader to display timed text information about what really is going on in the RSL loading process.Source Code Used in the Post Flex Hero SDK RSLTest4_0.fxp RSLTestHero.fxp Content If...

One interesting data point that goes unnoticed is the fact that a lot of startup use the Flash Platform. Check out this latest startup called Bizk.it (prounced Biz-Kit). They made 33rd on a 100 startup list here. Its a great example of a cloud base service using Flex/AIR for the front in. Take note on their hiring page, they are hiring Flex Developers. Another startup called UJam has some big backers, Hans Zimmer is a co-founder. Check out Hans...

Motorola and Verizon announced the pre-sale and availability of the DROID 2. The DROID 2 will have Android 2.2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 preinstalled. This is great news for the Adobe developer community. It also means that Android 2.2 is finally getting critical mass for preinstallation. Although Android 2.2 has been out for a while there still has to be a lot of certification and integration of software by each manufacturer and carrier, let...

One of the features in Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 is developers now have access to the microphone sound bytes. I created an AIR 2.0 application for the release demonstrating how to use this feature. Originally I created the application with Flex 3 and have since ported it to Flex 4. In this process the application was first developed for the desktop at a screen resolution of 460×210. What I wanted is to have a way to have this...