Multicast Messaging Example Using HydraP2P

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...

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Adobe Flash Player in Latest Device News

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...

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Droid Incredible Update to Froyo with Flash Player in the Update

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...

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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 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...

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Flex Hero RSL Enhancements and Monkey Patching

In my last post “Using Flex Hero RSL Enhancements” I discussed some of the new Flex Hero features around RSL Enhancements. I wanted to finish off the discussion with some information about the new “include-inheritance-dependencies-only” addition to compc, which added to make monkey patching with RSL’s easier. Lets just say it made one manual step easier, the whole process is still a bit complex. The main goal of...

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Using Flex Hero RSL Enhancements

One of the new features of the Flex Hero SDK is RSL Enhancements. I wanted to understand what this new feature really means for Flex projects and applications. The following post will show the differences in Flash Builder 4 projects and then use a custom Flex 4 preloader to display timed text information about what really is going on in the RSL loading process.Source Code Used in the Post Flex Hero SDK RSLTest4_0.fxp RSLTestHero.fxp Content If...

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