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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 [...]
AIR, Adobe, Android
What’s New in Adobe AIR 2.6
Andrei Ionescu | 25.03.11 | Permalink | 2 Comments

A while ago Adobe has release AIR 2.6 for Android, iOS and desktop. These are the new things in AIR 2.6:

Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding. This features allows bitmaps to optionally be decoded in another thread as opposed to on-demand in the main thread.
Owned Windows. The use case for owned windows is primarily things like tool palettes. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AIR, Adobe, Flex news, Media, Mobile, News
AIR 2.0 Is Now Available!
Andrei Ionescu | 11.06.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday, Adobe has released AIR 2.0 runtime and can be downloaded at get.adobe.com/air/.
The new things in AIR 2.0 are:

New Webkit with additional HTML5 and CSS3 support
Multitouch and gestures
Enhanced drag-and-drop support
Enhanced socket support
Enhanced printer interaction
DNS resolution
Local microphone API
Native document handlers to open document
Native process APIs
Native installer
Socket servers and peer-to-peer networking
TLS/SSL sockets
UDP networking support
Global error handler
IPv6 network [...]
AIR, Adobe, Apple, Flash
Moving Forward – in Reply to – Thoughts on Flash
Andrei Ionescu | 30.04.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday Steve Jobs posted an article on their website named Thoughts on flash where he expresses his motives for banning Adobe’s well known runtimes from any of their products. In response to Steve’s article, Kevin Lynch from Adobe, in his Moving forward article, stated that Adobe is moving forward concentrating on the Android platform. In [...]
AIR, News
Adobe AIR 2.0 Beta 2 Released
Andrei Ionescu | 03.02.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Today, 2nd of February 2010 Adobe did launch Adobe AIR 2.0 beta 2. The first beta release of AIR 2 was in November 2009 and after 3 months Adobe AIR 2.0 is almost ready for release. Good job AIR team!
Some features and enhancement:

Print Job Enhancements – better control of the way content is printed [...]
AIR, Adobe, News
Adobe AIR 1.5.3 Released
Andrei Ionescu | 12.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

On 8th of December 2009 Adobe did release Adobe AIR 1.5.3. This new version includes:

updated version of Flash Player
security updates
bug fixes

Both the runtime and the SDK are available for download. Please read the developer release notes which include critical information that all developers building AIR applications should be sure to read including important information related [...]
AIR, Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flash Builder 4, PHP, ZendAMf
Webinar: using PHP and Flash for developing Rich Internet Applications
Stelian Crisan | 01.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Our friend, Mihai Corlan, will host an e-seminar about PHP and Flash Platform, but let me quote him:
“On December 2nd, together with Roy Ganor from Zend Company, I will host an e-seminar about PHP and Flash Platform. We will show you how you can create a Rich Internet Application using the Flex framework, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, [...]
AIR, Conferences, Meetings & Events
Adobe AIR Challenge final is over
Andrei Ionescu | 26.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

In the last months Adobe AIR Challenge has been taking place. Yesterday we had the final: 3 AIR applications fought for the prizes. Those applications where:

Flair Builder – Cristi Pascu
MiniBuilder – Victor Dramba
Phitodo – Alexandru Ghiura

All three applications did win at least one prize on a category… and the categories where:

User experience and Design
Application Architecture
Novelty/Innovation
Value [...]
AIR, Bugs, Flash, Flash Player, Security
New Versions of Flash Player and AIR Available
Andrei Ionescu | 03.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Components, Libraries, MXML
Two New Adobe Projects Go Open Source – OSMF & TLF
Andrei Ionescu | 24.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe release other two projects into the open source world. We are speaking about: Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) and Text Layout Framework (TLF).
Open Source Media Framework was previously known as Strobe, now is a an open framework for building media players for the Flash Platform. Download it from here and for more information about [...]
AIR, Flex in the world, Flex news, Made in Flex
Adobe Wave Is Launched
Andrei Ionescu | 24.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

A few day ago Adobe launched Wave – a desktop notification system for your favorite websites. To understand it better think about it like an aggregator that keeps together all your favorite social networks and websites.
The application is built using Adobe AIR and connects to different services and alerts you when changes are made or [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Components, Flex in the world, Flex resources, Magazines
Contributing to FFDMag
Andrei Ionescu | 27.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:

How To Add [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Errors, How to, Security
SecurityError: Error #3015: Loader.loadBytes() is not permitted to load content with executable code.
Andrei Ionescu | 27.01.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Today I managed to find this error twice. It is happening in AIR applications. I had the same application in Flex and then I ported it to AIR. The error that appeared is this:
SecurityError: Error #3015: Loader.loadBytes() is not permitted to load content with executable code.
The error is saying that you’re no more allowed to [...]

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