Archive for: August, 2011

Aug 25th, 2011

The Flex Team discusses the future of Flex

Earlier today, Andrew Shorten published an article on the Flex Team blog titled, “Flex: where we are headed“. If you haven’t seen it, I encourage you to read it. It’s a clear, bold statement about Adobe’s investment in Flex, the recent increase in Flash Builder downloads and the future ahead. From my own personal perspective, [...]

Aug 23rd, 2011

Flex PersistenceManager and iOS Tip

Due to the way iOS suspends apps, you’ll need to do an explicit “.save()” on your persistenceManager if you want your data to be reliably saved. I can’t find this documented, but I suspect it is because of how iOS suspends an app. Once your app is suspended, it is not allowed to do anything [...]

Aug 12th, 2011

Flex on Mobile Live Q&A Chat Session Thursday, August 18th, 2011

If you are building apps with Flex for mobile devices or about to embark on this journey, you should check out the upcoming live Q&A online event for developers at http://flex.org/ask. There will be no slides, no demos nor any speaking. It’s a very informal, pure Q&A using the Q&A pod and a chat pod [...]

Aug 9th, 2011

Politifact app now in 5 mobile app stores – one Flex project

If you missed my earlier blog post, this app was the #1 news app in iTunes for a few days and was featured on the New and Noteworthy page. Here’s the important part – this is one single Flex project!  That’s right, 3 different mobile OSes, 5 different app stores, 1 single Flex project. The Politifact app is [...]