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Adobe Integrated Runtime
My fellow Flash developers, this post’s title and the post is not to start a new flaming war on the subject, it’s just an opinion which you may or may not agree with. I posted some of the following ideas in a private forum, so I thought I’d just save some typing and add some more thoughts in original forum post(s) and publish here on my blog. This post is …
Recently I did couple of workshop for Mobile Game Development with Adobe Flash at Jinnah University for Women. In first one we covered basics and getting used to the Flash Pro IDE, and basics of ActionScript 3, Timeline, MovieClips and other concepts in Flash. In 2nd follow-up workshop, we did some intermediate experiments, and completed a game, Popcornia, with real graphics, Timeline and AS3. [slideshare id=15617758&doc=mobilegamedevelopmentusingadobeflash-chall3ng3r-final-121213025833-phpapp02] Mobile Game Development using …
If you are following my recent tweets, you might have noticed that I am working on some applications for upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. So far, I am having fun developing for PlayBook using AIR SDK. I noticed that the icon requirement for BlackBerry PlayBook AIR SDK are a little complicated. Developer have to make an icon of 86×86 pixels PNG, but he must not fill the entire area with graphics. …
Okay, I admit it. I am old-school. I use Flash Pro CS5 as my only Flash development tool. I do all my coding on timelines and I like it that way. I have been working with AS3 for few months now, and I have to say, I have to write twice the code to actually do what I was able to do using AS2. I miss those good old days. …
Today Adobe released AIR for Android for all regions on Android Market. The timing of the release is just perfect, read on to know why ;) For last few years Adobe is trying hard to enable Flash content inside mobile browsers, it’s been not a big success because of lack of processing speed on mobile devices, complexities of mobile operating systems and of course, Apple. Personally I think Flash inside …
Finally its time for some business. AIR, short for Adobe Integrated Runtime is just released as v1.0 final product by Adobe. Its a runtime to make RIAs for desktop, even one can create just old desktop only applications with it as well. The main hype for this runtime is that it runs on Windows and MAC OS without any change to the code. Linux version will be released later. While …
Adobe launched on online website for its Open Source projects. The first projects available on the new community website are: BlazeDS Flex 3 SDK Flash Ajax Video Component Generic Image Library Adobe Media Gallery Adobe Source Libraries Tamarin Webkit XMP (eXstensible Metadata Platform) Adobe Open Source Home: http://opensource.adobe.com This is very good step forward, as most startup companies are now adays adopting Open Source software. With Adobe’s OS technologies, we …
Microsoft has recently been quite active with big announcements, updates to developer tools and Windows OS. On Monday, MS announced they will give away VS, Expression and Windows Server absolutely FREE to students worldwide. Read more here, and here. Very impressive move to get crowd stick to MS, seems quite workable idea :) Adobe also recently made available Adobe Flex Builder free to students. MS following the same idea making it …
I am quite excited to let you all know that we have just released FriendlyGhost, the first complete toolset for debugging Flash, Flex, FlashLite, Central, and even AJAX applications. Read the full press release It features FriendlyGhost Lite, a Flash Library for debugging FlashLite applications on real devices. Now FlashLite developers can solve Device API myths directly on the device. It also features FriendlyGhost AJAX Toolkit for debugging JavaScript and …
Some time ago, I created a dynamic wallpaper for Windows using Flash & HTML. I think it might be still useful to Central developers. get it here: DynaDesk (Source code is also available) // chall3ng3r //