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 day experience about PlayBook, blackberry’s tablet OS (for now called QNX), and QNX’s CEO Dan...

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 workflows for using Flash Builder 4 to build AIR for Android applications. This are...

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 for Flash Player 10.1. You’ll see Flash Player 10.1 shows up as an Update, which when you click through to install you’ll...

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 to have them run for a set time and display some stats. I don’t want to have to force kill the application on the...

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 of Flash Builder 4 Premium called Command Line Build that might help out in this area. Let me describe the...

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...