May 26th, 2010
Fun with AIR on Android – Geolocation
There are a lot of things that make building apps for mobile devices extremely fun and addictive. I’ve especially had fun with the onboard GPS in my Google Nexus One using ActionScript (flash.sensors.Geolocation class). It’s actually very simple. Here’s a trivial example: I’m currently playing around with a mobile app that polls my location every [...]
May 24th, 2010
Get started with AIR on Android before you get an Android device!
Recently, Adobe announced the public beta of AIR on Android. This excitement combined with all of the energy from the recent Google IO conference has a lot of developers wanting to dig right in! If you don’t have access to an Android device today, don’t let that stop you from having some fun. The Android [...]
May 18th, 2010
New IBM ILOG Elixir Data Visualization samples in Tour de Flex
We just posted some new IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 samples in Tour de Flex under the Data Visualization category. Here are some highlights: Supports Flex SDK 4.0 & Flash Builder 4.0 New: Diagram components (Spark) New: Timeline component (Spark) Improved: Gantt chart components Many new features including tasks item renderers coded in FXG, printing, re-designed [...]
May 6th, 2010
Scaling an Adobe AIR application to fit multiple resolutions and Netbooks
A few months ago, I blogged about a little side project I’m involved in called ChessJam, an online live chess application built with Flex that runs as a desktop application on Adobe AIR. A few weeks ago, we had some users complain that ChessJam was basically unusable on Netbooks. Further investigation confirmed that we had [...]
Mar 27th, 2010
Latest Flex and Flash posters available for download in high-res PDF format
You can now download the high-res PDF version of the latest Flex and Flash posters from http://flex.org/poster
Mar 25th, 2010
Flex 4 documentation now available in French, German Russian, Chinese and Japanese!
Flex 4 documentation is now available in six languages! English – http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) French – http://help.adobe.com/fr_FR/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) German – http://help.adobe.com/de_DE/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) Russian – http://help.adobe.com/ru_RU/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) Japanese – http://help.adobe.com/ja_JP/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) Chinese [...]
Mar 25th, 2010
The new Flex.org
On Monday, March 22, 2010 we launch Adobe Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4. We also launched a brand new Flex.org. Those of you familiar with Flex.org will notice a substantial difference! Be sure to check out the new Flex showcase (click “What’s Possible“). Every time we add an application to the showcase, we tweet [...]
Feb 25th, 2010
yFiles FLEX diagram editor sample added to Tour de Flex
Michael Schroeder from yWorks has added a sample to Tour de Flex to showcase their yFiles FLEX diagram editor featuring server-side calculation of automatic graph layouts. Check it out! You’ll find the new sample under “Other Components”. Click here to go directly to this sample in the web version of Tour de Flex.
Feb 2nd, 2010
Flex 3.5 SDK bug impacted AIR auto-update now FIXED in 3.5a
The Flex 3.5 SDK broke the ApplicationUpdaterUI, a commonly used component for enabling auto-update in AIR apps as described in my earlier blog post. Today, the Flex SDK team post version 3.5a that addresses this bug. Here are the notes from QA on the bug: The Flex team has updated the 3.5 SDK with a [...]
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