RIAgora

Flash Player 11, 3D and Aerys

14 Comments 08 September 2011

For the second episode of “The Flash Accent”, I wanted to interview Jean-Marc Le Roux, CEO of Aerys. His company based in Paris is developing Minko, an open-source 3D framework on top of the Stage 3D API (aka. ‘MoleHill’). The Stage3D APIs are a set of low-level GPU-accelerated APIs enabling advanced 3D capabilities across multiple [...]

Events, Moods

Winners of the mobile challenge

7 Comments 06 September 2011

I launched a contest on the 1st of July in Europe with the support of the European marketing team: the Adobe Mobile Challenge. To participate, you had to build a great AIR application and publish it on the three market places (Android Market, Apple Store and BlackBerry AppWorld) before the 1st of September. I received [...]

Moods

The future of Flex

10 Comments 26 August 2011

Andrew Shorten, Product Manager of Flex and Flash Builder, has just published an article on the Flex Team Blog about the future of Flex. If I were to try to summarize it, I’d say that: Adobe is still very committed to investing in Flex and the Flash Platform. One of the main use cases the team will [...]

Moods, Tutorials

Flex mobile in the browser

30 Comments 23 August 2011

Since Flex 4.5, you have had the ability to develop and export your projects as Android, iOS and PlayBook mobile applications that behave as native ones. You can also export your Flex mobile project as AIR desktop apps. Just open Flash builder, open your project and choose Project > Export release build. You can then export [...]

Moods

Welcome to Adobe Edge

7 Comments 01 August 2011

This morning, Adobe released a preview of Adobe Edge, the first Adobe tool dedicated to HTML5 and CSS3 animations. As the web standards are evolving to enable interactive animations, Adobe Edge lets you choreograph graphical assets on the screen. Motion designers who are used to After Effects or Flash Pro can create advanced animations in few seconds [...]

Interview, Moods

Eskimo, skin your mobile apps

9 Comments 24 July 2011

Flex 4.5 is a unique opportunity for application developers to develop one code base and compile it for iOS, Android and the BlackBerry PlayBook. I’ve already posted some tutorials to explain how to dynamically adapt the layout of your app depending on the screen resolutions, how to adapt your app to some UI patterns, or how [...]

Events, Videos

Mobile Challenge in Europe

7 Comments 06 July 2011

I’m happy to announce the official launch of a contest for EU residents: The Adobe Mobile Challenge. Adobe are challenging you to build a great AIR app and publish it into the Apple Store, the Android Marketplace and the BlackBerry App World for a chance to win a trip to Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, California [...]

Moods, Tutorials, Videos

Adaptive UI: mobile vs tablet

28 Comments 24 June 2011

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 experience, performance and usability. Usually, you carry [...]

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