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AIR, ActionScript, Adobe, Android, Apple, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 11, News
Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 Launched
Andrei Ionescu | 04.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Now that MAX 2011 Conference is started, Adobe just launched the Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. Take a look at the features introduced by each of them.
Flash Player 11 features

Native 64-bit support (Flash Player desktop)
Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering
Adobe Flash Access content protection support for mobile
Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) support
G.711 audio compression for [...]
ActionScript, Adobe, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Flash Player 10.2, Flash Player 10.3, Flash Player 11, Media, Mobile, News, OSMF, SMP, Video
OSMF 1.6 and Strobe Media Playback 1.6 Released
Andrei Ionescu | 09.09.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe just released the version 1.6 of both OSMF and Strobe Media Playback. The main things added to them are:

Stage Video support for hardware-accelerated video presentation (OSMF)
Smartphone and tablet optimized chrome for Flash-enabled devices (Strobe Media Playback)
HTML5 video player for non-Flash devices (Strobe Media Playback)
JavaScript device detection library for selecting the appropriate player and chrome [...]
3D, AIR, ActionScript, Adobe, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 11
Adobe® AIR® and Adobe Flash® Player Incubator – Flash Player 11 Available
Andrei Ionescu | 01.03.11 | Permalink | Comment?

The Adobe® AIR® and Adobe Flash® Player Incubator is a technology preview program for more adventurous developers who are willing to experiment with Flash Platform runtime features that are in early development stages. Test the bleeding-edge capabilities of runtimes and contribute to the future of the Flash Platform. Please note that the capabilities in the [...]
ActionScript, Flex 4 SDK, How to, MXML, Skin, Spark
How to transfer values from a Spark component to a skin part in Flex SDK 4
Stelian Crisan | 25.08.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Sometimes you need to pass values from components to skin, for example having a dynamic layout. Using Flex sdk 4 you can transfer values using content property of the hostComponent ({hostComponent.content}).
I made a small example that use hostComponent.content, changing the values of HSliders the colors of the component will be changed.

So [...]
3D, ActionScript, Algorithms, Flash, Pixel Bender
Anaglyphs with Pixel Bender
Andrei Ionescu | 26.07.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Jozef Chúťka has did manage to create anaglyphs using Pixel Bender and displacement maps. The result is amazing!

There are multiple kinds of 2 color glasses used with anaglyphs but the demo in Jozef’s article is for the common cyan-magenta glasses.
To find out more read Jozef’s article: http://blog.yoz.sk/2010/06/anaglyphs-with-pixel-bender-and-depth-map/
ActionScript, Android, Flash, Mobile
Medical Device Simulation on Flash Player Platform Using Multi-Screen Development
Andrei Ionescu | 09.07.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Serge Jespers did post an article regarding the new application Innovation Mecom has built for Dräger Carina medical device. The application is a simulation that reproduces all functions of the real device. So it is possible to get a real good impression of it even without using a real device.
Watch the following demo about [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Android, Flash, Flex in the world, MXML, Made in Flex, Mobile
Two New Apps with Multi-Screen Experince
Andrei Ionescu | 06.07.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Last two week I seen two great applications that make use of multi-screen experience capabilities of Flash Platform.

Androideroids by Grant Skinner
Desktop MP3 Music Player by Mihai Corlan

The first is a prototype multiplayer asteroids game in which each player uses an Android phone as their game controller. The player connects to the game and [...]
ActionScript, Drupal, Flex 3 SDK, Flexer, How to, Made in Flex
FxGallery – Drupal Image Module
Andrei Ionescu | 19.03.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Together with our friend, Mihai Corlan (Adobe Evangelist) we released FxGallery, a Drupal Image Module. Mihai came with the challenge to build an image gallery module for Drupal and we liked it and got involved into the FxGallery project.

FxGallery has 3 main view: Gallery View, Cover Flow View and Single View. The image module [...]
ActionScript, How to, MXML
How To Create Conditional Compilation Definitions (Conditional Compile Blocks)
Andrei Ionescu | 04.03.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

If you have a big project you will soon find out that you’ll need to have to versions of the application. One that you work on and one that you need to give it as a release build. On a release build you need to get rid of unwanted things like pre-filed login credentials that [...]
ActionScript, Components, How to, Media
Chromeless Youtube Video Player for Flex
Stelian Crisan | 24.12.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

This Flex component allow you to play Youtube movies into you Flex applications and also to be able to customize the look of your player. Actually I put a main movie component and two control sections, one for: play, stop, mute, unmute and time figures (current second and total number of seconds of the movie); [...]
ActionScript, Events
Flex/Flash Keyboard Key Codes
Andrei Ionescu | 20.12.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

If you need to know the key codes when implementing a keyboard event use the following application that displays some info about the pressed key. First you need to click on the application to have focus on it then you can start trying out different key strokes.

Some key codes, ASCII codes [...]
ActionScript, Flex IDE
MiniBuilder – Flash based IDE for ActionScript
Stelian Crisan | 08.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Flash MiniBuilder is a lightweight IDE created for developing programs written in ActionScript 3. Flash MiniBuilder is itself written in ActionScript.
Two of the main raison tobe of MiniBuilder are:

provide a completely free and cross platform alternative for developing ActionScript projects.
provide an editor with a small footprint that would eventually run on smaller computers like netbooks [...]
ActionScript, Debug, Errors, Flex 3 SDK
Undefined Error in Debug Session Because of Sequence
Andrei Ionescu | 13.10.09 | Permalink | Comment?

If you ever got into the following error (see bellow after this paragraph) you must know how you can overcome it.
The error is triggered only in debugging. No trace of it in the normal run. But if you need to debug and get this error it will pause the debug session and even after [...]
AMF, ActionScript, Components, Flash Builder 4, Flex 4 SDK, How to, MXML, PHP
Multiple File Upload Using AMFPHP
Andrei Ionescu | 02.09.09 | Permalink | 20 Comments

What is AMF and a bit of history
Action Message Format (AMF) is a compact binary format that is used to serialize ActionScript object graphs. Once serialized an AMF encoded object graph may be used to persist and retrieve the public state of an application across sessions or allow two endpoints to communicate through the exchange [...]
ActionScript, Flex 3 SDK, Flex Builder 3, Flex in the world, Fun, Made in Flex
Project Quindici by Serge Jespers
Andrei Ionescu | 22.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

If you’ve been following Serge Jesper son Twitter, you may have seen his tweets about a secret project called Quindici. Well… the project now is finalized and public… and is a widget created especially for Adobe MAX Conference.
You can see it bellow or on MAX Conference site.

You can find some interesting facts about Adobe MAX [...]

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