The making of a beautiful Photoshop composition
The making of a portrait by Marcio Negherbon from Meca Image Engineering (Brazil). Incredible use of 3D and Photoshop compositing.
Ponycorn Adventure Featured on the iOS App Store
More great news for another AIR-based iPad game. Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure is now highlighted in the New & Noteworthy section for games on the iPad. The web version of this game has garnered a lot of attention and it is great to see it taking off on the iPad. This is undoubtedly one of [...]
Tweet Hunt is a Beautiful New Game for the iPad
Jared Kroff is a creative director at the great Red Interactive agency and he has been doing innovative Flash work for years. I remember a session he gave at FITC years ago talking about the Red Universe site and I was blown away. Well now Jared has created the most beautiful Flash-based game for the [...]
Creating SkinnableContainer skins for Flex mobile apps
Recently I was looking for an example on how to create a skin that would work with the SkinnableContainer component class in a Flex mobile application. It turned out I couldn’t find any examples available in the wild so I had to dig it out myself. So below is the approach I took, which can also work [...]
Skinning a Flex Mobile Button with Bitmaps
I’m working on a mobile app that requires a lot of skinning and since Flex 4 we’ve gotten a MUCH improved skinning model for Flex. Unfortunately, with Flex mobile, for performance reasons it’s a good idea to use ActionScript-only skins … Continue reading →
New Tutorial on Tablet Swipe Gestures
I just uploaded a new tutorial that shows how to respond to the swipe gesture event and create a more traditional tablet photo gallery. This also uses the scrollRect technique rather than blitting. It is important to be aware of all these rendering met…
jQuery Mobile – adding Local Storage
So about a week or so ago I had an idea about a simple jQuery Mobile application that would make use of Local Storage. That was a week ago. Turns out – the “simple” application turned out to be a royal pain in the rear. Not because of Lo…
Now On Labs: Betas of AIR 3 And Flash Player 11
Title says it all, and this post over on the Flash Platform blog provides lots of details.
Adobe AIR Launchpad 3.0 Released supporting Android, iOS and Blackberry Devices!
Today a new version of Adobe AIR Launchpad is available with a bunch of new features added to support Flash Builder 4.5.1 to allow you to get a jump start on your mobile application development! The new features include: 1) Select up to three mobile targets including Android, iOS and Blackberry. The specific code and [...]
Adobe AIR App Challenge, Sponsored by Sony
Adobe and Sony are challenging developers to build breakthrough Adobe AIR apps optimized for the new Android-based Sony Tablet codenamed S1 and S2. Build apps using Flash and AIR for a chance to win $200,000 in total cash prizes and other rew…
Adobe AIR 3 and Flash Player 11 hit Labs (and Sony news!)
So I’m a bit late to help spread the news, but both Adobe AIR 3 and Flash Player 11 betas have hit Adobe Labs. You can check those links for details, but here are some things I’m excited about…
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Flash Gaming Summit at Casual Connect
Next Monday I will be in Seattle to give the opening presentation at the Flash Gaming Summit, sponsored by Mochi Media. This is a one-day summit based on the sold-out Flash Gaming Summit 2011 conference in San Francisco. This summit will highlight some of the leaders in the Flash game space who will share industry [...]
Adobe AIR App Challenge for Sony Tablets
Yes, you heard me right! Sony has just announced not one but two tablets based on the Android 3.x (Honeycomb) operating system. As you can see in the picture above they look pretty impressive. What’s more, one of them has a two screen design. I really look forward to seeing what creative Flash/Flex developers can [...]
Discover the unknown of Flex 4.5 – MAX session input request
During this year’s MAX I will be doing a presentation about things that are very useful but for some reason little known and rarely used in everyday Flex and AS3 development. The name of my session is “Discover the Unknown Flex 4.5”. This session is for you if you wants to learn new Flex/AS3 tips [...]
These are REALLY big pictures of my eyes
Be warned – what follows is somewhat gross giant pictures of my eyes. It isn’t bloody or anything, but if medical pictures make you sick to your stomach, consider this your only warning…
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Gaming sessions at Adobe MAX 2011
As many of you know by now, Adobe MAX 2011 is happening in downtown L.A Oct 1st – 5th. This year there is a lot of great content for all of those Flash ( and non Flash ) game developers out there. Here is a quick summary of the gaming sessions and labs currently scheduled [...]
I’m Off To Asia
If you follow me on Twitter you probably saw me tweet about having some injections last week – something I’m not a big fan off (irrational I know, but something I suffer from :p). The reason for these jabs is because I’m heading to Singapore and the Philippines next week. This is very exciting as [...]
