Category Archives: Flash Platform

Video: Introduction to the New Adobe AIR Launchpad

By James Ward | Published: August 24, 2010
I just created a video that walks through the new Adobe AIR Launchpad. The AIR Launchpad is the easiest way to get started building desktop apps with Adobe AIR and Flex. Check it out:
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Building Client / Cloud Apps with Flash Builder for Force.com

By James Ward | Published: July 26, 2010
I have a theory. The majority of people who use enterprise software today use old school Client / Server apps. We’ve been trying to move these apps to the web for more than ten years. The ease of deployment of web apps is a clear motivator. Yet the client capabilities of the plain old web [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Cloud, Flex, Mobile, Salesforce.com | 9 Comments

Developing Mobile Flash / Flex – Scaling and Zooming

By James Ward | Published: July 19, 2010
Mobile development with Flash and Flex is a new frontier, full of new adventures and discoveries. Recently I discovered something that might be useful to you. By default the mobile web browser on my Android 2.2 device scales a web page to make more room to display pages typically built for a desktop profile. Here [...]
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amf.js – A Pure JavaScript AMF Implementation

By James Ward | Published: July 7, 2010
I just finished the first version of a new pure JavaScript library for AMF. I’ve wanted to do this for a while but didn’t think it was possible since JavaScript doesn’t have a ByteArray. But then I came across this: “High Performance JavaScript Port of ActionScript’s ByteArray“. That became the basis for amf.js. Before I [...]
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Tour de Flex 2.0 – Nearly 500 Flex Examples!

By James Ward | Published: June 21, 2010
Adobe has just launched the new AIR 2 based Tour de Flex version 2.0 which now contains almost 500 Flex examples! The new version has new AIR 2 examples (only available in the AIR version of Tour de Flex) including: File Promises Mass Storage Detection Native Process Open with default app Socket Server Also there [...]
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Flex on Android in Flash Player and AIR

By James Ward | Published: May 21, 2010
This week at the Google I/O conference Adobe announced that a Flash Player 10.1 beta and an Adobe AIR prerelease are now available for Android devices. This is really exciting news for those of us building apps on the Flash Platform because now we can begin building apps in Flex for these mobile devices (and [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flex, Mobile | 19 Comments

Video: Build your First Desktop Application with Flash Builder

By James Ward | Published: April 1, 2010
In this video I walk through the basics of building Adobe AIR desktop applications in Flash Builder 4 using the Flex 4 SDK. Let me know what you think.
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Flex Performance on Mobile Devices

By James Ward | Published: February 21, 2010
This past weekend I spent an hour optimizing the Flex 4 scrolling demo that I posted last week. The original demo was intended to show how to hook up touch events to the Flex 4 List / DataGroup controls. This new version adds some optimizations for the touch event handling and adds the kinetic flick [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Mobile | 26 Comments

Flex 4 List Scrolling on Android with Flash Player 10.1

By James Ward | Published: February 19, 2010
UPDATE 1: The first version of this demo was intended to show how to hook up touch events to the Flex 4 List / DataGroup controls. I’ve posted a new version that adds some optimizations for the touch event handling and adds the kinetic flick behavior. One of the challenges of running existing web content [...]
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