Thursday 1 April 2010

Build your First Desktop Application with Flash Builder

James Ward,Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe,just posted a Video called "Build your First Desktop Application with Flash Builder" in his blog.


Follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jlward4th

Wednesday 31 March 2010

Effects in Adobe Flex 4

Effects in Adobe Flex 4 by Chet Haase (Adobe)
"This article describes the new effects in Flex 4. In order to get you up to speed quickly, I'll dive right into the main classes and provide code examples to implement basic effects. The details of how Flex effects work in general are outside the scope of this article—I'll focus on using the new capabilities of Flex 4 effects to create animations and describe how to incorporate them into your applications. This article doesn't cover all of the new Flex 4 features that you may see in some of the code snippets, such as the new spark components, multiple namespaces, the Declarations block, and the new states syntax, because there are other articles available that address those enhancements. That leaves us free to focus on animation."
More: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_effects_pt1.html

Flex4 Coverflow Layout by Xavi Beumala

Flex4 Coverflow Layout on Nexus One from Xavi Beumala on Vimeo.


According to Xavi the code is not optimized but for me at the first look this looks great. Flash and Mobile is now.

Please visit : http://www.rialvalue.com/ for more cool stuff.
Application: http://www.rialvalue.com/coverflow
Source code: http://rialvalue.com/coverflow/srcview

Flash 10.1 vs HTML5 on Google Nexus One

Comparison of performance of Flash Player 10.1 and HTML 5 on Mobile Devices from michael chaize on Vimeo.

Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 will include a Packager for iPhone

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/#faq

Demonstration Videos

Watch the following demonstrations of applications from the Apple App Store built using Flash technology:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/#demo
New Features in Flash CS5
This is a part of a post published in http://askmeflash.com/article/18/flash-cs5-new-features-and-a-comprehensive-overview
"New Text Engine: Text can now be handled in a more improved and better way with the introduction of more control features. To mention a few important, advanced styling and layout options, right to left text option, columns, threaded text blocks have been introduced.

Embedding Fonts: Embedding fonts is now quick and easy. Fonts embedded can be FLA based instead of Text based. A user friendly window provides all the functions associated with the embedding fonts.

Panel for Code Snippets: A quick access to common ActionScript 3.0 code snippets is possible so it can injected in the code easily and fast.

iPhone Capabilities: Flash Pro CS5 introduces an application packager that can be used to deploy flash applications on iPhone.

Cue Points in Video are now easy to add.

Improved FLVPlayback component equipped with new skins and an option for its live preview on Stage
XFL file format Flash: By default now flash files will be saved in XFL format internally. As the format name denotes, its an XML format which will result in an improved exchange of data with the other Adobe applications.

Uncompressed XFL file format: Uncompressed XFL structure will now make it possible to analyze the parts of the flash file and thus working with the source control systems like Visual source safe.

FXG file format support: It allows CS5 to export and exchange graphics with the other Adobe applications with a complete compatibility.

New Decorative Drawing tool: CS5 provides several new effects with the newly added Decorative Drawing tool.

New Properties for IK bones: New properties like Spring properties have been added to IK bones to create realistic physics effects for bone animation.

Integration with Photoshop CS5: Graphics of Flash CS5 can be edited in Photoshop CS5 and so they can be exchanged between the both directly.

Coding and Formatting Improvements:
Code completion for custom and build-in Classes has been added for ActionScript 3.0.
Custom classes are automatically added to the application using import tag.
While you script, closing brackets { } are automatically added.

Better integration with Flash Builder: Improved workflow between flash CS5 and Flash Builder makes it easy for developers and designers to use both the products together.

Updated AIR Publish Settings: The user interface and Installer Settings Window for AIR Application have been changed to make it more user friendly.

Update in Document Property Inspector: Now it also displays the size of all SWF files generated during movie operations like Test Movie, Publish or Debug Movie.
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New templates added for common type of project templates.

New JavaScript API's are added for motion tweens.

Access to Adobe Community Help..

Live Services are accessible from within the Flash authoring environment."

Flash Builder 4

Flash Builder 4 is released.
Download here http://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/

New features in Flash Builder 4 :
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/?view=topnew

Overview of the Spark architecture and components by Deepa Subramaniam:
http://
www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_sparkintro.html


Comparing Flex 3 with Flex 4:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3and4_differences.html

Test Driving in 1 hour:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/testdrive/

Learn to use Adobe Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 in a week video training course:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/

Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek

Presented by the Adobe Photoshop team:
"One of the biggest requests we get of Photoshop is to make adding, removing, moving or repairing items faster and more seamless. From retouching to completely reimagining an image, here's an early glimpse of what could happen in the future when you press the delete key. How might you use this new capability in your workflow?"

Adobe on Twitter

List of Adobe people on Twitter:
(This list was taken from http://www.webkitchen.be/2009/02/18/adobe-on-twitter/ . Webkitchen is the Adobe Evangelist Serge Jespers's website.)
Adobe
Adobe http://twitter.com/adobe

Accessibility
Andrew Kirkpatrick http://twitter.com/awkawk
Matt May http://twitter.com/mattmay

Acrobat
Ali Hanyaloglu http://twitter.com/acroboy
Dave Stromfeld http://twitter.com/acro_dave
Nico Juber http://twitter.com/acrogirl
Rick Borstein http://twitter.com/acrolaw
Tim Oey http://twitter.com/Adobe_Reader

Adobe Australia
Adobe Australia Office http://twitter.com/adobea
Andrew Spaulding http://twitter.com/spaulds
Clare Cahill http://twitter.com/clarecahill
Mark Szulc http://twitter.com/mszulc
Mike McHugh http://twitter.com/mmchugh

Adobe Benelux

Adobe NL http://twitter.com/AdobeSystemsNL
Bert Hagendoorn http://twitter.com/berthagendoorn
Christoph Rooms http://twitter.com/christophrooms
Kim Van Bokhoven http://twitter.com/kimvanbokhoven
Klaasjan Tukker http://twitter.com/ktukker
Rob In der Maur http://twitter.com/ridmaur

Adobe Core tech
Jim Hong http://twitter.com/jimhong
John Metzger http://twitter.com/metz123
Kevin Stewart http://twitter.com/kstewart
Mike Houser http://twitter.com/tharkad
Adobe Education
Education team http://twitter.com/AdobeEdu
Megan Stewart http://twitter.com/megstew
Richard J Jenkins (K12 Solutions engineer) http://twitter.com/RichardJJenkins
Tim Plumer (NA Education sales) http://twitter.com/tiplumer

Adobe E-learning
RJ Jácquez http://twitter.com/rjacquez

Adobe Germany
Sven Doelle http://twitter.com/sdoelle

Adobe India
Mayank Kumar http://twitter.com/geekzguru
Romil Mittal http://twitter.com/romilmittal

Adobe Japan
Mariko Nishimura http://twitter.com/mariroom
Teichi Ota http://twitter.com/otachan

Adobe MAX
Adobe MAX http://twitter.com/adobemax

Adobe Mexico
Raul Corona http://twitter.com/coronara
Luis Carselle http://twitter.com/lcarselle
Luis Caballero http://twitter.com/lureyca
Patrick Suquet http://twitter.com/pat_suquet

Adobe Nordics
Andreas Hollstrom http://twitter.com/hollstrom
Mattias Jonsson http://twitter.com/mjonsson

Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader http://twitter.com/Adobe_Reader

Adobe Romania
Adrian Spinei http://twitter.com/aspinei
Adrian Tanase http://twitter.com/atanase
Alexandru Costin http://twitter.com/acostin
Andrei Dragomir http://twitter.com/adragomir
Bogdan Ripa http://twitter.com/bogdanripa
Catalin Anastasoaie http://twitter.com/acatalin
Cosmin Lehene http://twitter.com/clehene
Cristian Ivascu http://twitter.com/ivascucristian
Dragos Georgita http://twitter.com/drageo2000
Gabriel Dobritescu http://twitter.com/GabiD
Gelu Blanariu http://twitter.com/gelu11
Horia Galatanu http://twitter.com/horiag
Irina Huzum http://twitter.com/irinah
Mihaela Barbu http://twitter.com/mihabarbu
Ovidiu Eftimie http://twitter.com/eovidiu
Remus Stratulat http://twitter.com/rstratulat
Sorin Sbarnea http://twitter.com/sbarnea

Adobe Scene 7
Adobe Scene7 http://twitter.com/Scene7

Adobe TV
AdobeTV http://twitter.com/AdobeTV

Adobe UK
Emma Wilkinson http://twitter.com/emmawilkinson

After Effects
Chris Prosser http://twitter.com/cprosser
Jeff Almasol http://twitter.com/redefinery
Michael Natkin http://twitter.com/michaelnatkin

AIR
AIR http://twitter.com/air
Arno Gourdol http://twitter.com/arnog
Ashutosh Sharma http://twitter.com/zorder
Aniket Ray http://twitter.com/aniket_ray
Christian Cantrell http://twitter.com/cantrell
Ethan Malasky http://twitter.com/emalasky
Rob Christensen http://twitter.com/robchristensen
Rohit Kewlani http://twitter.com/rohit_kewlani
Sundeep Maithani http://twitter.com/SundeepM

Buzzword
Buzzword http://twitter.com/Buzzword
Dave Coletta http://twitter.com/David_Coletta

Cocomo/AFCS
Fang Chang http://twitter.com/fkchang
Nigel Pegg http://twitter.com/nigelpegg
Varun Parmar http://twitter.com/vparmar230

ColdFusion
Adam Lehman http://twitter.com/adrocknaphobia
ColdFusion EMEA http://twitter.com/cfemea
ColdFusion http://twitter.com/coldfusion
David Collie (CF Support) http://twitter.com/eyelock
Nick Watson (CF Support) http://twitter.com/cf_nick

Connect
Brant Strand http://twitter.com/BStrand
Connect Users http://twitter.com/connectusers
Eric Thompson http://twitter.com/EricT
Guillaume Privat http://twitter.com/gprivat
Mark Blair http://twitter.com/markblair
Randah McKinnie http://twitter.com/randah

Consulting
Matt Voerman http://twitter.com/vortex

Creative suite
Doug Winnie http://twitter.com/sfdesigner
Eric Wilde http://twitter.com/ewilde1968
Marc Kubishta http://twitter.com/kubischta
Scott Fegette http://twitter.com/sfegette

Creative Suite evangelist
Greg Rewis http://twitter.com/garazi
Jason Levine http://twitter.com/Beatlejase
Karl Soule http://twitter.com/KarlSoule
Paul Burnett http://twitter.com/pburnett
Rufus Deuchler http://twitter.com/rufusd

Developer relations
Ed Sullivan http://twitter.com/esulliva
John Dowdell http://twitter.com/jdowdell
Liz Frederick http://twitter.com/lizign
John Koch http://twitter.com/John_koch
Rachel Luxemburg http://twitter.com/rlux

Documentation team
Paul Robertson (AIR/Flash Player) http://twitter.com/probertson

Dreamweaver
Devin Fernandez http://twitter.com/eastbaysics
Dreamweaver http://twitter.com/dreamweaver

Experience design
Andrea Magini http://twitter.com/jingleyfish
Brett Rampata http://twitter.com/brampata
Marcos Weskamp http://twitter.com/marumushi
Michael Gough http://twitter.com/mgough01
Jonnie Hallman http://twitter.com/destroytoday

Fireworks
Bruce Bowman http://twitter.com/brucebowman
Sarthak Singhal http://twitter.com/sarthaksinghal

Flash
Richard Galvan (Product manager) http://twitter.com/adobeflash
Jonathan Wall (Marketing) http://twitter.com/jwall

Flash Catalyst
NJ http://twitter.com/rictus
Rob Adams http://twitter.com/robadams

Flash platform
Flash Platform http://twitter.com/Flash_Platform
Mike Chambers http://twitter.com/mesh
Robin Charney http://twitter.com/Rcharney
Steve Ballerini http://twitter.com/sballeri

Flex
Matt Chotin http://twitter.com/mchotin

Illustrator
Illustrator team http://twitter.com/InsideAI

Lightroom
Andrew Rahn http://twitter.com/paddlefish
Ben Zibble http://twitter.com/bzibble
Dan Tull http://twitter.com/dantull
Dustin Bruzenak http://twitter.com/bruzenak
Eric Scouten http://twitter.com/scouten
Jeffrey Tranberry http://twitter.com/jtranber
Jon Steinmetz http://twitter.com/jonsteinmetz
Kevin Tieskoetter http://twitter.com/LR_Kevin
Melissa Gaul http://twitter.com/LR_Melissa
Phil Clevenger http://twitter.com/LR_Phil
Tom Hogarty http://twitter.com/LR_Tom
Troy Gaul http://twitter.com/tgaul

LiveCycle ES
LiveCycle ES http://twitter.com/livecycle
Matthias Zeller http://twitter.com/matzeller
Matt MacKenzie http://twitter.com/matt_m

Open source
Dave McAllister http://twitter.com/dwmcallister

PDF standards
Leonard Rosenthol http://twitter.com/pdfsage

Photoshop
John Nack http://twitter.com/jnack

Pixelbender
Kevin Goldsmith http://twitter.com/KevinGoldsmith
Pixelbender http://twitter.com/pixelbender
Samantha Bailey http://twitter.com/upperleftcorner

Platform evangelism
Andrew Shorten http://twitter.com/ashorten
Anirudh Sasikumar http://twitter.com/anirudhs
Ben Forta http://twitter.com/benforta
Christophe Coenraets http://twitter.com/ccoenraets
Cornel Creanga http://twitter.com/cornelcreanga
Daniel Dura http://twitter.com/ddura
Duane Nickull http://twitter.com/duanechaos
Enrique Duvos http://twitter.com/eduvos
Greg Wilson http://twitter.com/gregorywilson
Harish Sivaramakrishnan http://twitter.com/hsivaram
James Ward http://twitter.com/jlward4th
Kevin Hoyt http://twitter.com/parkerkrhoyt
Lee Brimelow http://twitter.com/leebrimelow
Mark Doherty http://twitter.com/markadoherty
Mihai “Miti” Pricope http://twitter.com/mpricope
Mihai Corlan http://twitter.com/mcorlan
Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan http://twitter.com/sriragam
Ryan Stewart http://twitter.com/ryanstewart
Serge Jespers http://twitter.com/sjespers
Sujit Reddy Gurrala http://twitter.com/sujitg
Ted Patrick http://twitter.com/__ted__
Terry Ryan http://twitter.com/tpryan
Tom Krcha http://twitter.com/tomkrcha

PR
Adobe PR http://twitter.com/AdobePR
Adobe PR Germany http://twitter.com/AdobePR_D

Prerelease team
Ashu Mittal http://twitter.com/ashumittal
Vidhu Sharma (AIR/Flex) http://twitter.com/vidhu

Shockwave
Allen Partridge http://twitter.com/shanhassa

Spry
Spry http://twitter.com/AdobeSpry
Technical account manager
Josh Dura http://twitter.com/joshdura
Kyle Quevillon http://twitter.com/turdontherun

Technical sales
Michal Metlicka (EEMEA) http://twitter.com/mmetlick

Text Layout Framework
TLF http://twitter.com/adobetlf

Web team
Neil Straghalis http://twitter.com/nstraghalis
Tim Ong http://twitter.com/timong