Category Archives: Flash Builder

Anything to do with the Flash tools Builder and Flash Pro.

Update to PlayBook SDK provides Flash Builder Burrito Plugin

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

Using Flash CS5 to embed Fonts in SWC to use with Flex Hero and Flex Mobile Hero

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 [...]

Flash Builder Burrito Launch Configurations for PlayBook (package, deploy, debug, & uninstall)

UPDATE 2010-12-01: There is a Flash Builder Burrito plugin for BlackBerry Tablet OS available now. Read this post to find out more info. This is an update to the my previous post that only provided information for one Package and Deploy launch configuration for Flash Builder Burrito preview. In this post I’ll provide launch configurations [...]

BlackBerry PlayBook Adobe AIR Developer Tips

Here are a few tips for developing on the BlackBerry PlayBook with AIR: DISCLAIMER: Some tips will change as the PlayBook OS changes. The BlackBerry Tablet OS and SDK are in beta form and will definitely change for production release. Application Icon In the current beta build of the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK you can [...]

Using Flex Hero mobile themes with existing Flex/AIR applications

NOTE: Flash Builder Burrito is the way to build Mobile Applications and what I am about to talk about is not the supported way. This post is meant for those that for whatever reason can't use Flash Builder Burrito in its preview state and want to try out Flex Hero mobile features. Flash Builder Burrito [...]

Building Flex Mobile applications with Flash Builder Burrito Preview and BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK

Check out this article on using Flash Builder Burrito and BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/blackberry_tablet_os_sdk.html The BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK plugin does not work with Flash Builder Burrito so you will want to use the command line instructions or these handy Launch Configuration files I created. If you are getting stuck with a problem or [...]

Flash Builder Preview Launch Configurations for BlackBerry Tablet OS sdk

Want to us Flash Builder Preview with BlackBerry Tablet OS sdk? I have created some Eclipse Launch Configurations that you can import into your Flash Builder Burrito preview to make the process easier. The basic idea is to have the external tools call out to the same process as calling out to the command line [...]

Pre-Hero Flex AIR for Android Workflows with Flash Builder 4

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 [...]

Command Line Build a Flash Builder 4 Premium Feature

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 [...]

Flex Hero -size-report added to mxmlc

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 [...]