Hardware Accelerated 3D Coming to Flash
Wow, this year’s Adobe MAX could turn out to be the biggest yet for Flash with the announcement that Adobe is bringing 3D GPU accelerated rendering to Flash Player and AIR. From the demonstration videos it looks like this is going to be huge. Adobe aren’t going to stop there though. They’ll also be adding […]
AIR for Android – Six of the Best
It’s early days for Adobe AIR for Android but I thought I’d do some digging around on the Android Market and see what apps are already available. Overall I was fairly impressed and some very polished content has certainly been released. The following six however really caught my eye for one reason or another. 6. […]
Funky Flash Music Player Tutorial
I’m delighted to announce that my tutorial – Go Retro With a Funky Flash Music Player – was published on Activetuts+ today. It covers both Flash’s design tools and ActionScript 3 to build a retro audio cassette that streams music. So what are you waiting for? Jump on over to Activetuts+ and give it a […]
The Future of Flash is 3D
I asked in my last post if Adobe’s focus on mobile would limit the features we’d see in future versions of Flash. Well looks like I have an answer via Thibault Imbert’s blog where he teases us all with talk of Flash’s next generation 3D API. For those wanting to know more, Flash Player engineer […]
Why YouTube Primarily Uses Flash
There’s a really interesting post over on the YouTube API Blog from Google’s YouTube team explaining their reasons for using the Flash Platform to deliver video. The article discusses the advantages Flash currently has over the HTML5 <video> tag including: A Standardised Video Format Robust Video Streaming Content Protection Encapsulation & Embedding of Video Fullscreen […]
Flash content doesn’t have to be bloated
I keep hearing from friends and colleagues that Flash is notoriously slow and the content it produces is hopelessly bloated. Of course this simply isn’t true but recently I’ve been finding out the hard way that it’s not easy to convince many of them otherwise. Now I’m not attempting to turn this into a Flash […]
Build an app in a week recordings
Last week saw a series of free live webinars presented by Adobe technology experts showing users how to create RIAs using the Flash platform. If you missed out or simply want to cover the material again then fear not as you can find links to each session below. Rapidly build, deploy, and maintain Internet apps […]
Innovation through Flash
With all the recent hype surrounding HTML5 it’s easy to forget how innovative the Flash platform continues to be. Flash video in particular has taken a bashing of late from the Apple camp and with Adobe so eager to defend video in Flash many seem to have forgotten that Flash can do so much more. […]
Glasgow Flash Meetup
Well Friday night was something special. The greatest minds in the Glasgow Flash community met up to discuss all things Flash related and to have a good ol’ iPhone bashing session. But wait a minute, it turns out that even Flash devs are divided by all this Flash v iPhone malarkey. Incredulously some even seem […]
Developer! Developer! Developer!
Upon arrival at this year’s Developer Developer Developer event I knew I was going into the hornet’s nest. It’s not easy trying to go unnoticed at these things you know, especially when you’re the only Flash developer there amongst a crowd of several hundred soulless dot net geeks. Somehow they can just tell you’re different, […]