Sep 25th, 2011
A super simple approach to Splash Screens for Flex Mobile Apps
If you are fairly new to mobile app development with Flash or Flex, I bet you have run into the following issue when creating your splash screens — You create a splash image that looks great when the device is held in portrait orientation: …but then when you turn it landscape, you get the white [...]
Sep 8th, 2011
Geolocation tips, quirks, and possible bugs (flash.sensors.Geolocation)
I’ve been working on a couple of apps recently that use the Geolocation APIs. I’ve discovered a few tips and quirks that I felt were worthy of sharing. Geolocation object There are two classes that you need in order to implement location in your app – Geolocation and GeolocationEvent. When you create a Geolocation object, [...]
Jun 13th, 2011
Video Interview with Scott Petersen about how iOS packaging magic works
Last week, while visiting the Adobe San Francisco office, I interviewed Scott Petersen, one of the Adobe geniuses behind the iOS packaging magic. Scott talks about the use of LLVM, AOT (ahead of time compilation) and other aspects of iOS packaging. The interview is about 11 minutes long.
Apr 11th, 2011
Flex on Mobile – from skeptical to excited
Today there are several ways to build apps for mobile devices. You can write native apps using the device OS SDK and get great results for that OS, but if you need to write apps that work across Android, iOS and QNX (Blackberry PlayBook), it’s not a very productive path because you basically end up [...]
Mar 8th, 2011
Adobe AIR Launchpad and Tour de Mobile Flex Updated
Adobe AIR Launchpad has been updated to support 8 languages – English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Russian! This and other new features are documented on Holly Schinsky’s blog Also, James Ward recently updated Tour de Mobile Flex to now target AIR 2.6. You’ll notice some nice performance improvements, especially with scrollable lists. [...]
Jan 27th, 2011
Tour de Flex expanded to include mobile samples!
Tour de Flex now has a bunch of new mobile samples! This brings Tour de Flex to 609 total samples! If you haven’t checked out Tour de Flex lately, you should. Holly Schinsky wrote a blog post with more details on the new samples. If you are ready to try your first mobile app [...]
Dec 3rd, 2010
Getting started with Flex on mobile devices and tablets
If you are an Adobe Flex developer and haven’t dipped your toe into the world of building mobile applications, skip your next lunch break and check it out! It is incredibly fun and the resulting apps are impressive. Because the tooling and SDK to make mobile app development with Flex possible is all in pre-release, [...]
Oct 9th, 2010
How to move Adobe AIR for Android to your SD card
If you are like me and have an android phone that is lacking internal RAM, you are probably doing a lot of app juggling to make it all fit. Serge Jespers recent blogged: Android – Move your apps to SD where he explains how to move almost any app to the SD card. This also allows [...]
Oct 5th, 2010
Distributing content world wide using Amazon CloudFront
A few days ago, I announced that many of the samples in Tour de Flex are now hosted in 16 distributed locations. As promised, here are the details: Prior to last Friday, most of the Tour de Flex samples were hosted from a dedicated server in California. For those of us in the US, the [...]
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