Flash Platform in Startups and the Cloud

One interesting data point that goes unnoticed is the fact that a lot of startup use the Flash Platform. Check out this latest startup called Bizk.it (prounced Biz-Kit). They made 33rd on a 100 startup list here. Its a great example of a cloud base service using Flex/AIR for the front in. Take note on their hiring page, they are hiring Flex Developers. Another startup called UJam has some big backers, Hans Zimmer is a co-founder. Check out Hans...

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Flash Player preinstalled on DROID 2

Motorola and Verizon announced the pre-sale and availability of the DROID 2. The DROID 2 will have Android 2.2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 preinstalled. This is great news for the Adobe developer community. It also means that Android 2.2 is finally getting critical mass for preinstallation. Although Android 2.2 has been out for a while there still has to be a lot of certification and integration of software by each manufacturer and carrier, let...

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Local Microphone Access Feature with AIR for Android

One of the features in Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 is developers now have access to the microphone sound bytes. I created an AIR 2.0 application for the release demonstrating how to use this feature. Originally I created the application with Flex 3 and have since ported it to Flex 4. In this process the application was first developed for the desktop at a screen resolution of 460×210. What I wanted is to have a way to have this...

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QTIndexSwapper2 Update

I have updated the QTIndexSwapper2 AIR application. This update includes some UI fixes to display status of the video processing properly and make it hopefully a little better to understand. It also includes some code to check for updates of the application. You can find the update at the QTIndexSwapper page.

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RIAPalooza Session Source Code and Slides

I presented a session at RIAPalooza 3 on “Building RIAs from the Prespective of the Finger Tip”. I will probably get around to posting more information about this subject on my blog, but until then I am making my demo code available for those that wanted to play with it. Download the FingerTipTesting.fxp (just unzip if you want it in a non-Flash Builder project format). Its linked against Flex 4.1 which you can pull down off the Flex...

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Using mxmlc Embed fonts with TextField

NOTE: From Josh’s comment below you can do this in the Embed metadata. See the end of the post for updated code. With the latest drops of the Flex SDK, 4 and higher, the compiler mxmlc has changed. One of the changes is that it defaults the Spark components to use Text Layout Framework (TLF) for Text fields. TLF is a Flash Player 10.0 plus feature and is built up on the flash.text.engine classes. The mxmlc compiler has allowed you to embed...

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