Flex 4 Skin: Mildly Glossy
Used Adobe Flash Catalyst 1.0 to create the below theme. Attached is one MildlyGlossy.swc and MildlyGlossy.css in an archive. Download (1793 downloads) Preview
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Setting up Mildly Glossy for your Flex 4 project Copy the MildlyGlossy.swc to libs folder of your Flex Project. Copy the MildlyGlossy.css to the src [...]
Source: One Code, Multi-Screen
Find below the source code of the game that I developed for my previous example, One Code, Multiple Screens. Prerequisites This requires Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and I haven’t planned on posting CS4 version as it needs compatibility to Flash Player 10.1 and uses Accelerometer API that is currently available only in CS5. I have [...]
One Code, Multi-Screen
I happened to write a simple casual game a couple of weeks back for a purpose. The fact that I didn’t have to re-write any code for platform specific execution just amazed me. I decided to record a video showcasing the content on 3 different devices – Laptop running Snow Leopard, Touch Laptop running Windows [...]
Presentation: Creating Multiscreen Apps
This was the presentation I showcased during the Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 this month. I also showcased the Flash Professional CS5 to Flash Builder 4 workflow. Showcased the game that I developed in Flash Professional CS5 and used Flash Builder 4 to write code for the same and publishing the same code for Browser, [...]
Flash Catalyst – Skin a custom DataList
I myself being a designer, designing a custom skin for a List component has always been a little difficult. Experiencing Adobe Flash Catalyst was overwhelming from a designer’s perspective. To make this obvious, I am presenting a simple way of creating a fairly cool looking list box (DataList) component using Adobe Flash Catalyst 1.0. Download [...]
Register for CS5 Launch Event
Register for the CS5 launch global event on Monday, April 12th, 2010. To register, get updates and latest buzz about the product, do visit the site – Adobe Creative Suite 5 Launch Some sneak peeks that you can see – > Adobe Photoshop CS5 – Content Aware Fill > Introduction to Flash Catalyst > Adobe [...]
Adobe Flex 4 is Out
Good news to RIA developers. Adobe Flex 4 SDK and Flash Builder 4 are now available for download.
Download Open Source Flex 4 SDK -here
Download/Buy Flash Builder 4 -here
Know more about the “Version 4″ – here
Flex DataGrid Auto Sort Example
This post is just an extension of my earlier post describing the auto sort solution for your Flex DataGrid. Upon request, I have built a simple code that demonstrates it. This is how it looks: –
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The Downloads column is auto sorted and that too in descending order. [...]
Speaking: Great Indian Developer Summit 2010
I will be speaking in the Great Indian Developer Summit coming up (Apr 20, 21, 22) on April 21st, 2010. My topic of concentration would be around Flash Platform across platforms and devices. Find the details below: – Developing multi-screen applications on Adobe Flash Platform The ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR spans [...]
HP Slate – Flash Player & AIR Demo
HP released a video introducing its tablet called the Slate that will run Windows 7 operating system and support Adobe Flash. To demonstrate that, HP posts a video with Adobe’s Alan Tam. He shows Adobe Air and Flash in action on the device. Alan Tam from Adobe showcases H.264 video running on Flash Player (on [...]
Flash Symbian Packager – Helisso
As AIR 2.0 is down the line ticking time for the release, the current BETA AIR 2.0 has got one of the best examples a developer can build. Helisso – A Symbian Packager developed in AS3 for AIR 2.0. Mark Doherty, platform evangelist has posted complete details of the app Helisso on his blog. Also [...]
Building iPhone Apps in CS5
Presentation by Mike Chambers, Principal Product Manager, Adobe. Very informative and useful if you are seeking help in improving performance of your App using CS5 for iPhone (for future use of course).
India Game Dev Summit 2010 Pics
Find the pics below of today’s summit. It was good overall. My presentation was taken well. Responded well. I am not planning to post the source files of Labyrinth (with Accelerometer) online. Please wait for CS5 Then probably I will post all these…
India Game Dev Summit 2010 Slides
Here are my slides for India Game Developer Summit 2010 (today’s session).
Pics to follow…
FP10.1 Beta 3
Don’t forget to download Flash Player 10.1 Beta 3 on your desktops (Win ActiveX, Win Plugin, Mac Plugin, Linux Plugin from Adobe Labs. Below are the list of bug fixes for Beta 3 as per the release notes in the page – Installation: Installers require administrator rights and should never launch on restricted user accounts [...]
What’s New in FP10.1 and AIR2
Here is an informative presentation by Serge Jespers describing new features of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.
For more information and source files of this presentation, visit the original blog entry.
Flash Player – How We Test…
For people who comment/write about Flash Player crashing on their machines, do report a bug in our Bug Management Tool.
For more information on the Flash Player stability, Kevin has written a note that’s worth reading just to know the effort take…
Speaking: India Game Developer Summit 2010
I will be speaking in the India Game Developer Summit 2010, Bangalore. Here is the detail of my focused session: – Building Gaming Experience for Mobile & Devices Track: Game Programming; Mobile Gaming As vast and rich as the experience in Flash content is, the session gives you an insight regarding how easy the whole [...]
3D Realistic Earth using Papervision 3D – Part 1
Introduction I was researching more on Papervision 3D when I realized I can share some information on creating a 3D realistic Earth model. I will also explain how to add rotation to earth and one way to show the rotation of moon and revolution of it around earth. I will also briefly describe how to [...]
