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So one of the cooler features of Adobe AIR is it’s ability to work with the user’s microphone. I whipped up a quick sample of this feature today that demonstrates this. In this first entry we are simply going to monitor the user’s audio and in the ne… [More]

It’s been on the schedule for a while, but we wanted to make sure that it was known. This will be the first ever all day hands-on training for the litl device(s). This is gonna be an excellent opportunity to get hands-on with this awesome new device that’s bringing the Flash Platform out of the browser! Litl is such and interesting company and device, I’m really excited to see what they’ve got going on and see what awesome things everyone creates during the lab. Expect to be routinely wow’ed by litl and the powerhouse dev/API team they’ve assembled!! Don’t miss

Why you should be at 360|Flex DC and why we love having a Charity Code Jam. Having an application that would allow our volunteers to register our participants in a user-friendly manner when they don’t have access to the internet will create a much better user-experience for our volunteers and will save a large amount of time and manpower for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation,” said Kathleen Ruddy, Executive Director, St. Baldrick’s Foundation. We’re excited about what the programmers from 360|Flex are creating to help the St. Baldrick’s Foundation raise more money for childhood cancer research and can’t wait to get

There is a bit of a change of plan – rather than give an overview talk on open source projects in the community – I’ll be doing my session at Flash on the Beach on Flash Player 10.1 development and the litl webbook. Ever since… Related posts:Adobe announces the Open Screen Project Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience Flash on the Beach – Day 2

I’m not gonna write a bunch about this, because well there’s a video. So yeah that’s it. There’s three false facts. one per tweet with the hashtag #360flexfacts. First person to get each fact, gets a shirt! Oh and feel free to join in on the fun and make your own video with 360|Flex Facts, [...]

I love playing around with video… and I love playing around with Flash. When you combine the two you can create some really cool stuff. That was my goal when I first started working on the MAX Unawards application. This is the first in a series of blog posts in which I want to give [...]

This is really great news for all the Visual Studio fans that want to do Flash/Flax development with their favorite IDE. Amethyst IDE brings really incredible feature set of Visual Studio to Flash/Flex world. I really love how it handles component AS3 in a separate file, I hope something similar was available out of the [...]

Back in April we posted an episode of Rudolf, a new Flash-animated series created and directed by Rudi Mertens. I spotted another episode online, and figured you might wanna watch. This episode is titled Pick Pocket, and the production was handled at the German studio JEP Animation. [...]

Now this is a fun sight to wake up to. This ad is on page A9 of my Wall Street Journal. It’s also running in other newspapers (including USA Today and New York Times). If you can’t read the text, here’s what it says: FLASH WEBSITES? THERE’S A PHONE FOR THAT. Introducing the new Droid 2 by Motorola. Flash sites require Flash capabilities. Seemed pretty simple to us. That’s why we created DROID 2. With Adobe Flash Player it gives you unrestrained access to Flash sites, videos and games. No more empty windows or half-loaded pages. And as a 3G

I posted a while ago that I was working on the next-generation Flash/Flex compiler at Adobe. After taking some time off, traveled a lot and moving half-way across the globe from San Francisco, I’ve started working again. And then I remembered I had a blog! Perhaps the most exciting piece to report is that Code Model: [...]

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This is the first week of the month, and the marketplaces have posted their free files for September. Let’s check them out. ActiveDen: Logo Maker / Image Editor by jayc Logo Maker is a Flex application that helps you create/edit logos and images. Users can add/edit images, text, symbols and download logos as PNG images. [...]

Several weeks back, Adobe evangelist Greg Wilson and Flex guru Holly Schinsky demonstrated an early prototype of an application called Adobe AIR Launchpad that they were planning to release publicly. Launchpad, built using Adobe AIR, was designed to significantly reduce the time to development new AIR apps by generating useful code snippets common to many [...]

The September usergroup meeting is on ! This month , we are very glad to have Rahul Garg to talk about Developing AIR applications on Android. With the latest version of AIR and Flash Player 10.1 , flash developers can now port their application from web, to desktop, and now to mobile ! Rahul Garg will talk [...]

StreamingMedia.com has kicked off a new series of “Ask Adobe” webinars. Join us on 9/10th to learn more about the Flash Media Server roadmap with Adobe’s Kevin Towes and Dan Rayburn as they discuss the future plans and how you can be successful distributing high quality video online.

One of the Adobe MAX sessions this year focuses on the tie between open source game development and the Flash platform. PushButton Engine is an open source Flash game engine and framework that’s making it possible to build fascinating games. In fact, one of the biggest successes for Facebook, Social City, was built using PushButton [...]

European developers and designers: Interested in litl? Will you be in Brighton from Sept 26-29? Then you’re in luck! I’ll be on hand, (as an attendee, not a speaker… this year ), to show off the litl web book, at Flash on the Beach! I’m super excited about demoing the litl OS for the European [...]

In case you hadn’t heard, Duane ‘Chaos’ was taken super duper ill recently! As a result 22nd Century ain’t gonna be able to make it to DC 360|Flex-a-palooza is still on like Voltron, but just one awesome band fewer!! You can’t see this awesome one of a kind musical show anywhere else! No other [...]

If you are using Flex 4 or even Flex 3 with the AdvancedDataGrid and you run into this error: TypeError: Error #1007:Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor.at mx.controls::AdvancedDataGridBaseEx/getSeparator() You can see how crucial it is to check for “null”. In this instance, there is an implicit expectation that you have the headerSeparatorSkin style id declared …

My man Faisal Abid, one of the authors in Flex 3 In Action will be speaking at the upcoming 2011 Scotch On The Rocks. Go say hi to him.

360Flex in DC is coming up very, very soon. It’s arguably one of the best Flex events out there. MAX is also coming up shortly thereafter which is where you’ll be hearing about all kinds of cool Adobe goodness. What’s better than each one of those? Coming to both. So I’m running a contest. If [...]

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Loading classes dynamically in ActionScript 3 is easy, but there are a couple of tricks to keep in mind.

A buddy of mine who has the original Motorola Droid just got an Android OTA update, and thus Flash Player 10.1. Droid owners, rejoice!

If there were wonder twins of the Flex community it’s the Wright brothers! (Let’s not dwell on which on is Jayna) Whether working on Reflex (Wednesday at 2:50) or something else awesome, Jac and Tyler are always up to something cool! Q: How long have you been working with Flex? A: In Flex? since Flex 2 and ActionScript 3 first came out – 3, 4 years now? In Flash? Eight wonderful years! Nice. A Flash convert Q: What do you like most about Flex? A: I love the ease of Binding and the MXML workflow in all it’s

Here are a few of the latest news and blog posts about different devices coming out with or recently updated support for Adobe Flash Player. Samsung: Galaxy Tab has leg up on Apple iPad Android, though it lags iOS-based devices in gaming titles, does have a wide range of applications. Samsung pointed out that the Galaxy Tab [...]

Of course, our dear FlashMoto CMS users, you have already had time to appreciate the numerous advantages of the Flash content management system: its wide opportunities, the convenient almost intuitive interface, the simplicity of each option, etc. FlashMoto developers have tried hard to release the product of such a high functionality. With the launch of the [...]

Now that the Adobe AIR Launchpad is available on labs.adobe.com, I’m sure that’s you’ll start developing a lot of desktop applications. Then, you certainly want to know how to deploy them. On the last screen of the AIR Launchpad, you can create an install badge. In case you don’t know what it is or how [...]

A former co-worker of mine just announced an awesome new Facebook game that they built with Flex, Swiz, and AS3Signals. It’s called Urban Warfare, plays like Civilization, and can be found at http://apps.facebook.com/urbanwarfaregame/.

IKS launch Cooklet platform descried as a “culinary organizer”. I like the idea of having a multi-platform recipes solution. I remember I worked with Marco to a similar project for an Italian pasta brand ! I can imagine food brands could would be interested to such solution. “Cooklet is a platform that enhances the experience of [...]

The Nintendo Wii is one of today’s most popular console, with their control until then innovative for its release, became a video game “for family” and for various utilities. Today, the Nintendo Wii is used in various parts of the world not only for entertainment but also in areas such as physiotherapy for recovering patients [...]

This shocking story just in. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, may not always tell us the truth!!!!! Dun, dun duuuuuuuu! Ok, so if you are involved in the Flash platform in any way then you already knew that. But, I came across more reckless ‘fact’ quotation from old Jobby which I thought I’d share with you [...]

Playing streaming radio through Flash is interesting. If you need a player for your Shoutcast station, you’re a little limited. You’ll find plenty of solutions for what you want to do—but not quite for the problem you’re trying to solve. Codebass used the JW player to begin with. Longtailvideo.com calls the JW player the most [...]

Artima.com has posted another article from my book Flex 4 Fun. Check out Effect Choreography in Flex 4 for an introduction to using composite effects in Flex 4 to create more complex animations.For anyone that’s tired of seeing Flex content on my blog, you’re in luck: this is probably the last bit of such material for the foreseeable future. This article is the eighth and last in a series of articles that were, er, borrowed from the book.(Then again, if you’re tired of my Flex content, I have no idea what you’re doing reading this blog to begin with).If, instead,

My wife’s Droid Incredible received the Froyo update notice today. Interestingly it mentions Flash Player in the update text. Here is some highlights from the text: “This Android™ 2.2 (Froyo) software update includes new enhancements to support Adobe" Flash" Player 10.1 (pre-installed), support for 720p video recording, and many other improvements for your DROID Incredible [...]

I have been very busy the past few months due my recent relocation back to Florida and working in a very cool project. Last weekend I just released a cool interactive tool for one of my clients. This tool would allow customers upload pictures of theirs on vehicle and visualize new rims on it. From there they can save and share on Facebook or Twitter, and click the “buy now” button to see more specific details about the wheel and finalize the checkout process. This project took us 6 months from planning, project, hire the resources and put everything together.

Do you create multilingual content or apps using Flash Builder? Do you use a localized version of Builder? Why or why not? Do you prefer to develop in English while deploying in multiple languages? We would like to hear your voice and understand your pain points. Please link to our short survey on Flex and [...]

Adding gesture support for your Flex apps is very easy. But it takes a little extra code to take the experience to the next level by adding a layer of physics to it. The example below is built for touch screens but will work with a mouse just as well. If you want to view [...]

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Spark FormHeading control in Flex Hero by setting the backgroundAlpha style. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!– http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/09/01/setting-the-background-alpha-on-a-spark-formheading-control-in-flex-hero/ –> <s:Application name="Spark_FormHeading_backgroundAlpha_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle" /> </s:layout> <s:controlBarContent> <s:Form> <s:FormItem label="backgroundAlpha:"> <s:HSlider id="sl" minimum="0.0" maximum="1.0" value="1.0" snapInterval="0.1" stepSize="0.1" /> </s:FormItem> </s:Form> [...]

The following example shows how you can set a bitmap image fill on a Spark FormHeading control in Flex Hero by creating a custom FormHeading skin and creating a repeating BitmapFill object. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!– http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/09/01/setting-a-bitmap-image-fill-on-a-spark-formheading-control-in-flex-hero/ –> <s:Application name="Spark_FormHeading_BitmapFill_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle" /> </s:layout>   <fx:Style> @namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";   [...]

In my day-to-day doing development at Firstborn, it’s pretty common that we run into questions that don’t have a very clear answer – for example, what would be the best technique to do something (in terms of performance). When something like that happens, depending on the time constraints, we may either do some quick test, or [...]

Colleague Damon Cooper recently posted a good post on the reasons that our enterprise customers are increasingly choosing LiveCycle Data Services to deliver rapid, reliable messaging to Flex-based applications. I quote his article below: “ The question of when should you consider LiveCycle Data Services vs BlazeDS for Flex/Flash application development comes up frequently, and [...]

I created a little add-on for Flash Builder 4 which gives you a “Copy Fully Qualified Name” entry to the context menu in the MXML/AS3-Editors of Flash Builder. This is especially useful if you’re creating new skin classes in Flex 4 and need to know t…

Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug. “This acquisition extends Alcatel-Lucent’s push into Applications territory and complements its Developer Platform, Open API Service and Programmable Web offerings with ELIPS Studio – our tool that allows to develop cross-platform native mobile apps in Flex for iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices (+ more in the future). The [...]

The Flex product team is looking for your feedback on building and deploying applications in languages other than/in addition to English. Please help us gather data for future releases of Flash Builder and Flex SDK by filling out a short survey. We are especially interested in receiving input from a wide variety of users across [...]

The Flex product team is looking for your feedback on building and deploying applications in languages other than/in addition to English.

Please help us gather data for future releases of Flash Builder and Flex SDK by filling out a short survey.

We are especially interested in receiving input from a wide variety of users across the globe.

Thanks for your help and we look forward to hearing from you!

Aaron Boushley will be joining Ben Garney talking about the Push Button Engine. Gaming is (as you may or may not know) huge. Flash gaming has been around since the dinosaurs, and Flex is getting more and more prevalent in the space. There’s a few sessions for those looking to explore game creation and theory, [...]

The source code will be permanently available at GitHub (yes, new kid in the block instead of Google Code or SourceForge). http://github.com/JabbyPanda/InputAssist/ Demo: –> –> Changelog for 0.1 release: [+] Added style “highlightBackgroundColor” to InputAssist [+] Added Ant build script [+] Packaged as SWC library [*] Changed classes namespace to match industry standard [*] Changed the algorithm [...]

People tend to associate Flash content with two things: video and games. But it’s far from being right, as Flash has a great potential and provides a bunch of opportunities to create appealing portfolios, commercial and promotional websites, complex corporate applications, educational websites and even online stores. But there is the other side of the [...]

When I was presenting on Real Time Web at Adobe Flash Platform Summit in Bangalore, many people asked me whether it is possible to create P2P File Sharing (note its sharing, not transfer) in Flash Player 10.1, backed by Stratus. The answer is definitely yes. Riding on the peer-assisted networking of Adobe Stratus, it means [...]