Building a Flex mobile application that works across smartphones and tablets takes an understanding of screen sizes, screen dots per inch (DPI) and screen resolutions. In the current landscape of devices typically you consider a tablet something bigger then a 5-6 inch physical screen. Also in the current device landscape screen resolutions are for tablets [...]
Category Archives: Flash Builder
I have seen an increase of mobile hackathons, hack days, and/or startup weekends in the last year. Typically the format runs over 1-3 day timeframe, where teams come together and code up a storm. Typically prizes are decent, people are friendly, and its a great way to learn new things. I would definitely recommend it [...]
Flash Professional and Flash Builder both have mobile workflows. If you want to use the mobile workflow of Flash Builder with a Flash Professional project take a look at the video at the end of the post. The basic idea is to use Flash Professional and/or Flash Professional Project type in Flash Builder as the [...]
I am looking at doing some Android development to extend my AIR applications (AIR Native Extension). There is not a lot of public information on AIR Native Extensions but you can check out some information here. For those that really want to start playing with it right now you can apply for the private prerelease [...]
So this is a little tip that has been coming up more and more often because of the need to export applications to the various package types (.bar, .apk, .ipa) and tooling not quite being there (or plugin support out of sync etc...). The proper way to create a non-debug version of a specific package [...]
I recently participated in the BlackBerry Developer Day co-presenting the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Bootcamp: Adobe AIR sessions. We led developers through the process of installing all the tools (Flash Builder Burrito, VMWare, BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK and Simulator) and getting up and running to build their first application. As part of this presentation I wanted [...]
My fellow Adobe Evangelist Daune wrote a nice application using Flash Builder Burrito and Flex Hero that browsers a devices file system and lets you see the details of the files. I wanted to see what this application looked like on the PlayBook.
If you get the latest PlayBook SDK download and run the installer you can now install the PlayBook plugin into Flash Builder Burrito. Here are some quick steps/tips to see if its up and running. NOTE: If the pictures seem blurry just click on them to get a larger view
SOURCE FILES on Github All that I am about to show can be done in AS3 with Metadata to embed different fonts. But where Flash Professional CS5 comes in is that it has a nice UI for selecting font Unicode ranges to limit the number of glyphs you actually embed for the font, and that [...]
