(Adobe TV, that is) In case you had not seen on the Flex team blog, twitter or through some other medium, Flex SDK 4.6 and Flash Builder 4.6 were released today! Go get them, if you have not done so already. Flex 4.6 marks a huge advancement for the Flex SDK, especially regarding mobile applications. […]
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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. […]
Building PhoneGap Applications With Dreamweaver
Update (3/28/2012): Hi Everyone, I know there have been lots of questions about PhoneGap + Android SDK, and lots of headaches because Google’s Android SDK keeps changing and breaking the Dreamweaver integration. Fret not! There is an easier way — Adobe has released a plugin to integrate Dreamweaver with PhoneGap Build. With this plugin, you […]
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 […]
“Almost Native” – iOS Apps Powered By iAd.js and PhoneGap
One of the benefits of using a cross-platform development technology that I mentioned in my last post is that cross-platform development technologies can be solution accelerator platforms. I mean “solution accelerator” because it can be easier and faster to develop an application using cross-platform technologies (web development skills) rather than native development, even if you […]
Why Cross Platform Mobile Development?
Perhaps you have heard of the topic “cross platform development”, but aren’t really sure what it is, or you aren’t sure why you would want to use cross-platform technologies. If this is the case, then this post is especially for you. I’ll try to shed some light onto what it is, and why you would […]
MAX Sneaks Now Available!
Adobe MAX was a great opportunity to see the latest projects that Adobe has been working on. Not only are the keynotes and announcements exciting, but there is a lot that which doesn’t make it into the keynote. In addition, Adobe gives you a glimpse into the future with sneak previews of new software ideas, […]
MAX 2011 Presentations
The recordings of my presentations don’t seem to be available yet on Adobe TV, but here is the content, as promised. I spoke at MAX this year on “Multi Device Best Practices using Flex & AIR for Mobile”, and “Create beautiful, immersive content and applications with HTML5 and CSS3”, and the content from these presentations […]
Flash/Flex/AIR Platform Roadmap 2011
Although there were no official announcements around Flex, Flash & AIR (other than the release of FP11 & AIR3), don’t think that the platform is going away or becoming stale… In fact, it is quite the opposite. The Flash Platform will continue to thrive and innovate, providing outstanding solutions that set the pace for other […]
Object Orientation
Here’s another post that I originally wrote way back in 2006, when object oriented development was a newer concept to client-side web applications. Again, this post is still very relevant with Flex, AIR & ActionScript for mobile/web/desktop, so I decided to resurrect it from the old blog archive as well. Enjoy… Understanding of OOP (Object […]