AIR 3.2 & Flash Player 11.2 Release Candidates Available on Adobe Labs

AIR 3.2 and Flash Player 11.2 release candidates are now available for download on Adobe Labs. These latest versions have some exciting new features, including Stage3D for mobile devices, broader Stage3D support on desktop machines, multi-threaded video decoding, and better mouse support for gaming scenarios.   Get ready for some incredible mobile and desktop experiences powered […]

Stage3D & Flex Demo w/ Source

Back in the summer, I was lucky enough to get my hands on some early builds of Stage3D for mobile. I built some simple examples, including basic geometric shapes and simple 3D bubble charts inside of mobile Flex/AIR applications. I have been asked numerous times for the source code, and I’ve finally given in, and […]

Realtime Data & Your Applications

After spending some time playing around sketching with the HTML5 canvas element earlier this week, I figured “why not add some ‘enterprise’ concepts to this example?”…  Next thing you know we’ve got a multi-device shared sketching/collaboration experience. To keep things straightforward, I chose to demonstrate the near-realtime collaboration using a short-interval HTTP poll.  HTTP polling […]

Capturing User Signatures in Mobile Applications

One growing trend that I have seen in mobile & tablet applications is the creation of tools that enable your workforce to perform their job better. This can be in the case of mobile data retrieval, streamlined sales process with apps for door-to-door sales, mobile business process efficiency, etc… One of the topics that comes […]

AMF vs. JSON in AIR Mobile Applications

UPDATE 11/23/2011: Full source code now available at: https://github.com/triceam/Flex-Mobile-Serialization-Tester Recently, I’ve been asked more than once which is better: AMF or JSON for AIR mobile applications. This post is to highlight some performance comparisons, and a sample testing application that I put together. First, it is important to know what both AMF and JSON are. […]

Infinitely Scrolling Lists in Flex Applications

Have you noticed when using twitter, google plus, or certain areas of facebook that when you scroll the page, it automatically loads more data?  You don’t have to continually hit “next” to go through page after page of data. Instead, the content just “appears” as you need it. In this post we will explore a […]

Flex for Mobile – Device Form Factor Detection

Here’s a quick tip for detecting device form factor (tablet vs phone) within your Flex mobile applications. First, get the stage dimensions for the screen size in pixels, then divide that by the applicationDPI (screen pixel density).  This will give you the approximate size in inches of the device’s screen.   I say “approximate” because […]

Getters & Setters vs. Public Properties

Here’s a post that I originally wrote way back in 2006, when Flex 2 was all the rage.   No, seriously, Flex 2 was awesome – it is the base of today’s Flex framework, helped to revolutionize applications on the web, and heralded the “RIA” frenzy.   The best part is that this post is […]