Archive for the ‘Adobe’ Category

Flash is alive and well no thanks to Adobe PR

Posted on: November 10th, 2011 |

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Despite Adobe’s best efforts to badly communicate with the public yet again, Adobe Flash, AIR and Flex is alive and well. they are only stopping development of the Flash mobile player which really means Android and Motorola web browsers that currently play flash content.

Adobe is focusing more on Flash platform development for the desktop and installed applications, which really means the AIR platform and the packagers for iOS and Android install applications.

There are many stories, blogs and articles around the web but I suggest people actually read the Adobe press releases rather than jump to conclusions from people and sites that are either ill informed or just plain wrong.

You can find more details on the Adobe site at this link

Personally, I actually think this is the right thing to do and focus more on application development than trying to optimize the player for web playback on mobile devices.

Flex 4.6 – New components and more

Posted on: September 21st, 2011 |

I could tell you about the new cool stuff in Flex 4.6 like,

  • SplitViewNavigator
  • CallOutButton
  • SpinnerList
  • DateSpinner
  • ToggleSwitch

Or I could send you to the Adobe DevNet article here. For my money, the Spinner and DateSpinner list are priceless and a very welcome addition.

Adobe Flex Mobile applications – passing data between views

Posted on: September 4th, 2011 |

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Adobe Flex 4.5.1 – Mobile applications – passing data between views

Having now learned how to change views in a Flex mobile application thanks to my previous video found here, I will now show you how simple and quick it is to pass data between those views.

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Adobe Flex, Where it is heading

Posted on: August 26th, 2011 |

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An important post from Andrew Shorten regarding where Flex is heading. I recommend anyone interested to read it, especially if you are even remotely interested in cross platform and device development.

http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/08/flex-where-were-headed.html