Category Archives: Flash Player

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 [...]
Also posted in Flex, JavaScript | 38 Comments

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, Flex, Mobile | 19 Comments

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 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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Flex Apps on Mobile Devices

By James Ward | Published: February 17, 2010
This week at Mobile World Congress Adobe has been showing off Flash Player 10.1 on a variety of mobile devices. Last week I received Google’s Nexus One device with an early version of Flash Player 10.1 on it. Here is a video I shot today showing how Flex applications can run on mobile devices with [...]
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Flex and The Cloud

By James Ward | Published: January 19, 2010
The combination of Flex and The Cloud is quickly becoming an IT and paradigm changing combination. Here are a number of recently published resources for learning more about this : An article I wrote has been published on the online Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine: Flex and The Cloud: Is this really just Client/Server 2.0? [...]
Also posted in Cloud, Flex, RIA, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce.com | 3 Comments

Exciting Flash Platform Advancements

By James Ward | Published: December 16, 2009
Recently there has been a number of exciting advancements with the Flash Platform (Flex, Flash Player, and Adobe AIR). Here is a quick round-up: Adobe released security updates for the Flash runtimes: Flash Player 10.0.42.34 and Adobe AIR 1.5.3. The Flash Player update fixes an issue with mouse scroll wheels not working in Flash when [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR | 6 Comments