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 sales and downloads. So what is Intel AppUp? Take a look at...

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 RTMFP groups. Basically it allows you to connect to a multicast ip and send messages for any one listening to receive. This is not a direct...

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 for one-touch access to your favorite Google shortcuts and applications Adobe FlashPlayer...

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 by HTC.”Here is a picture of the full...

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 helpful to see which classes relative to each other where taking up space in a specific SWF file. But where the SWF Size Report comes in to play...