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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. [...]
Adobe, Flex 4 SDK, Flex resources
Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Flex 4 with AIR
Stelian Crisan | 26.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe Certified Experts (ACEs) set themselves apart from other IT professionals. They consistently demonstrate expertise with Adobe products and platforms, and add value to colleagues, managers, and their own careers.
The Flex 4 ACE Exam is based upon the most critical job activities that a Flex developer performs. The skills and knowledge certified by this examination [...]
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, 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
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, 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, 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 [...]
AIR
Adobe AIR 1.5 (“Cosmo”) Available in Flex SDK Nightly Builds
Andrei Ionescu | 12.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

“Cosmo” is in the nightly builds of Flex SDK! The new AIR 1.5 contains:

Encrypted Local / SQLite databases
Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM
Integration with Flash Player 10

New Text engine
Updated Saffron engine for font rendering
Custom Filters and Effects
3D Effects
Typed Arrays updated
Dynamic video streaming

More about it on Mike Chambers blog.
AIR, Flex 2, How to, RIA
Override classes from included libraries
Virgil Cristea | 11.05.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

During last week I had to do a small application for AIR. That was until friday when I had to release it and found out that the app had to work also in normal browser. Since almost all the code was independent of the type of app (AIR/Flex) my task was pretty easy:

Get all existing [...]
AIR, ActionScript, How to, Uncategorized
AIR applications File and Directory
Virgil Cristea | 08.05.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

In the past days I had to write a small app in AIR and one of the problems I came across was the saving of preferences locally. I needed to be able to read/write a file on the local file system. After some digging I found the answer and decided to make a small tutorial [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Flex 2
Converting a flex 2 app to air
Virgil Cristea | 23.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Last week I tried to convert a small flex 2 application to air. It went pretty smooth with some minor exceptions that were fixed fast. So if you have a flex 2 app and did not do anything fancy in it then it all should work fine.
Keep in mind that flex 3 has some modifications [...]
Flex IDE, Flex news, Flex resources
Flex Builder 3 beta 2
Stelian Crisan | 16.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

This near-feature-complete Flex Builder 3 beta 2 release will provide you with an opportunity to explore powerful new features, communicate early feedback, and test existing Flex applications with the latest Flex 3 framework.
FAQ

What did Adobe announce regarding Flex?
On October 1, 2007 Adobe announced the public availability of Flex 3 beta 2. This is the second [...]

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