First day at Blackberry’s developer conference, #DEVCON10, has been great. At the keynote co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced Blackberry’s tablet called: PlayBook. There was a lot of information about the device but also a lack of certain bits of information too. In this post I want to dump what I saw and heard during the first [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Until the next preview releases of Flash Builder “Burrito” come out the mobile workflow in Flash Builder has yet to be defined. By the way a great place to come learn about the latest “Burrito”, “Hero”, and “Panini” information is at MAX in Los Angelos next month. In this post I’ll walk through one possible [...]
I finally received the Droid X Froyo update today. Besides the Droid 2 which came preinstalled with Froyo and Flash Player (10.1.72), the Droid X and Droid Incredible both received their Flash Players (10.1.72) with the OS updates. The next step to upgrade the Flash Player is to go to the Market icon and search [...]
With the different devices out there that do allow for full multitasking by default for all applications it produces a need to be able to programmatically exit applications. The use case I have is I build Flex or ActionScript only applications that get packaged up for devices, usually these are testing applications where I want [...]
The Flash Builder is great at organizing projects and all the build dependencies that revolve around large projects. Creating build scripts (typically ant build scripts using mxmlc/compc Flex ant tasks) can be complex and hard to recreate all the subtleties of the Flash Builder project build process. There is a new feature that is part [...]
There was a news release today about plans to enable developers to distribute and monetize Adobe® AIR® applications and games via Intel® AppUp? center storefronts. Intel® AppUp? is the first storefront in the Adobe application distribution service, codenamed Melrose. Developers and publishers can sell and distribute AIR applications to potentially millions of users while monitoring [...]
If you are looking for a way to have devices talk to each other with out the devices knowing about each other check out this post. There are various options but in this post I will talk about using Flash Player's multicast ability. The underlying API for this Flash Player 10.1 feature is NetGroup and [...]
Here are a few of the latest news and blog posts about different devices coming out with or recently updated support for Adobe Flash Player. # Introducing the T-Mobile G2 with Google — the First Smartphone Delivering 4G Speeds on T-Mobile’s Super-Fast HSPA+ Network Additional features of the G2 include the following: Dedicated Quick Keys [...]
My wife's Droid Incredible received the Froyo update notice today. Interestingly it mentions Flash Player in the update text. Here is some highlights from the text: "This Android™ 2.2 (Froyo) software update includes new enhancements to support Adobe" Flash" Player 10.1 (pre-installed), support for 720p video recording, and many other improvements for your DROID Incredible [...]
This is actually a very cool feature that is being added in Flex Hero. You can check the specification wiki page for SWF Size Report here. Previously all we had was the link-report which gave us a bunch of information about classes and inheritance and a rough idea of compressed size of classes. It was [...]
