After the recent announcements from Adobe regarding the future of the Flex framework (see, for example, this blog post) and, unofficially, from Microsoft about Silverlight (see this one), the RIA world have been deeply shaken up and it is now time to look...
1 replies - 2167 views - 12/10/11 by Franck Wolff in Articles
My company has just created an architecture team to help standardize our programming tools and application design. It’s a small but growing financial company and we have 50 or so developers on staff. Most of our Java apps are built using Struts 1.x with...
22 replies - 6737 views - 09/13/11 by Michael Ellison in Articles
Title says it all, and this post over on the Flash Platform blog provides lots of details.Some of the features and performance enhancements included in the Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 betas:
1 replies - 4175 views - 07/18/11 by Ben Forta in News
The screen size of a tablet device is much bigger than a smartphone
one. It’s very close to a desktop one. If you plan to develop a mobile
application and run it on smarphones and tablets, you need to adapt the UI (your
views) for several reasons: user...
2 replies - 5880 views - 06/24/11 by Michael Chaize in News
The AIR team has just announced
the availability of AIR 2.7. Improvements include AIR apps for iOS
rendering up to 4x faster in CPU mode, app installation on SD cards for
Android devices, acoustic echo cancellation, and more.
1 replies - 2761 views - 06/15/11 by Ben Forta in News
If you are looking for a quick way to get started building Flex
applications for Android (even if you don’t have an Android device),
check out this tutorial: FlexAndroid90Minutes.pdf.
You can download the supporting materials here:...
0 replies - 4778 views - 06/03/11 by Christophe Coenraets in News
The following article is for both recruiters, and interviewers.
After doing hiring, getting hired, and helping facilitate others
getting connected, there seems to be a lot of confusion in our industry
about how Flex Developers work. The following article...
2 replies - 4604 views - 05/20/11 by Jesse Warden in News
*** The following is totally unsupported by Adobe *** Adobe AIR provides a consistent platform for desktop and mobile apps.
While consistency is very important there are times when developers
need to extend beyond the common APIs. This article will walk...
0 replies - 3621 views - 05/11/11 by James Ward in News
Yesterday I made a post about my experiences
with the new Flash Builder 4.5 and 4.1 IDEs while developing mobile
applications. Today, we follow this up with a video to illustrate some
of the key points you'll need to get started.
0 replies - 3540 views - 05/08/11 by Duane Nickull in News
Many Flash (and Flex) developers I have spoken to about mobile
development are still unsure about what it will take to deliver Flash
player based content and applications to mobile devices.{This is a guest post by Derrick Grigg from the Flex Developers Blog}
0 replies - 4292 views - 05/07/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
James Ward and I collaborated
and wrote a simple demo app called "Scribbler". It demonstrates some
really simple concepts such as detecting screen capture and saving to
the local file system on Android. This application is a regular Flex...
0 replies - 7602 views - 05/07/11 by Duane Nickull in News
More Flex posts by Jeremy Mitchell can be found on blog.flexdevelopers.com
It takes more to be a good Flex programmer than simply knowing how to use some built-in Flex containers and controls. It takes significantly more.
1 replies - 6974 views - 05/05/11 by Jeremy Mitchell in News
Adobe has its ear to the ground when it comes to it's core user base of developers and designers. They know that figuring out how to develop and design applications for smartphones (and now tablets as well) can involve a steep learning curve. They also...
0 replies - 10130 views - 05/03/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
For my next foray into mobile development with Flex and AIR, I'm trying
an application with the default UI of the BlackBerry Tablet, the QNX api.
0 replies - 3551 views - 04/28/11 by Terrence Ryan in News
The assertion made by enterprises prior to examining a
“rebuild” of existing web applications (i.e. HTML 4, XHTML, JavaScript,
Applets, Struts, etc) is that the average employee has seen the rise of a new
standard of expectations set by Web 2.0...
1 replies - 11446 views - 02/28/11 by Kevin Ruse in Articles
