Category Archives: Flash Player
Flex 4 List Scrolling on Android with Flash Player 10.1
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 on [...]
Also posted in Flex, Mobile 22 Comments
Flex Apps on Mobile Devices
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 [...]
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Flex and The Cloud
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?
I’ll [...]
Also posted in Cloud, Flex, RIA, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce.com 3 Comments
Exciting Flash Platform Advancements
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 [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR 6 Comments
How Bad Crossdomain Policies Expose Protected Data to Malicious Applications
The web’s success has been partially due to the sandbox it provides users. Users do not generally have to entirely trust every website they visit because malicious web sites should be sandboxed from doing the user harm. One way that web sites are sandboxed is through a same-origin policy. By default any [...]
Also posted in Flex, Security 11 Comments
RIAs on the Web, on the Desktop, and in a PDF
Some believe that the “Internet” in “rich Internet application” (RIA) means that RIAs must only run in the browser. However my definition of RIA is not constrained to only web-based applications. RIAs can run anywhere: web, desktop, mobile devices, TVs, or even inside PDFs. Ideally we should have some level of code [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex, PDF 16 Comments
Fonts in Flex 4 / Flash Player 10 / AIR 1.5 Make Me Happy
Device font rendering in Flash content has always had some limitations, including the inability for text to be correctly scaled, rotated, and faded. Due to these limitations many developers using Flex resort to embedding fonts. But this can really bloat the size of applications – especially when working with non-English languages. Luckily [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex 12 Comments
Flash Platform Partner Resources
The Flash Platform (Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flex, etc.) has become a mainstream software development platform. This is very exciting but also leads to me getting a boat-load of email. That is great! I love hearing from the community and answering questions. I do respond to every email I get – [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flash Platform, Flex 5 Comments
Flex Performance on Mobile Devices