Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 1/9/2012
Posted on Jan 09, 2012
This is the first update of the new year and there are a ton of sample applications, tutorials and announcements over the past few weeks. Once again there is continued interest and releases in Stage3D and continued innovation using AIR native extensions on the desktop. There was also a lot of activity regarding the new Apache Flex project including a very busy mailing list which shows a high level of continued community interest in the platform.
Cool Stage3D Stuff
Ville Koskela announced the new release of Angry Birds on Flash 11 using Stage3D and the Starling framework.
Another new application using Flash Player 11 and Stage3D is Kaleidoscoper by Brandel Zachernuk which turns your computer webcam into a kaleidoscope.
David Lenaerts discusses the new light probes in the dev branch of Away3D 4.0, showing how to use the feature and including an impressive looking demo.
Emanuele Feronato shows you how to use the new Flare3D physics engine with a demonstration, including source, of a car you can control.
Jackson Dunstan continues his introduction to AGAL series for Stage3D shader programming. Part 2 focuses on data types and assembly syntax. Part 3 shows how to build and use basic shaders.
Yasunobu Ikeda posted a number of Away3D 4.0 demos this week. The first is a filter demo that allows you to choose different filters, such as a radial blur, on a running sample. The next is a dynamic shadow demo (links temporarily broken - should be demo and source). The next demo uses Away3D and Flint for a particle demo. The final demo shows off a depth of field blur.
Cool ActionScript/Flash Stuff
Jackson Dunstan reviews his top ten ActionScript performance tips for 2012.
Adobe's Charles Bihis released a diff library for ActionScript that allows you to compare two strings and highlights the differences.
Joel Hooks released a Robotlegs 2 tutorial that uses a Flickr image gallery sample application with the source provided.
Emanuele Feronato continues his StencylWorks tutorial for creating Flash games, with this edition focusing on managing saved game data. Emanuele also expands upon his prior post on creating explosions with Box2D by exploding clicked objects and setting the center of explosion on the mouse click position. Both tutorials include source.
Saravanan posted two tutorials, the first covering working with the Twitter API using oAuth. The next covers how to load variables via a text file.
This sample code creates a rotating globe in 3D using ActionScript and Flash.
Cool AIR for Desktop Stuff
Joseph Labrecque posts a video tutorial on how to package AIR 3 captive runtime for Windows.
The latest release of the AIR native extension for working with Microsoft Kinect, AIRKinect version 1.6, was released. You can see a demo of the new player masking demo which extracts the pixels of a player similar to using a green screen.
Speaking of Kinect, Michael Ivanov posts a demo, with source, of a simple game using Away3D, AwayPhysics and Kinect.
Cool Mobile & Devices Stuff (Android, iOS, Blackberry, Television)
Barbara Kaskosz discusses a scenario where you have complex but static vector drawings on a mobile application and shares a sample application, with source, that compares the performance of BitmapData.draw, cacheAsBitmapMatrix and vector content when zooming.
Matt LeGrand shows how to center a popup in Flex mobile after an orientation change.
iOS
Emanuele Feronato posted his string avoider prototype to iOS using Flash CS5.5 and he shares the initial code and results in this post.
Cool Flex, Flash Builder & Catalyst Stuff
It's official; Flex has been accepted into Apache as a podling. Already there has been heavy discussions on the mailing list. Michael Schmalle summarizes the Apache Flex mailing list discussions in this post and this post.
Adobe evangelist Andrew Trice discusses multiple solutions for capturing and storing user signatures in mobile applications including a Flex and AIR solution.
Antonio Holguin shares the code for a multi-button toggle selection in Flex.
Lander Willems shares a sample application with source using FXG and the Flex 4 states syntax to create a MXML skin that reflects its hostcomponent states.
Jeffry Houser demonstrates how to convert your Flex Components from MXML to ActionScript 3.
Cool ColdFusion Stuff
Nathan Mische released a new open source ColdFusion ORM entity validation framework based upon another framework called Hyrule called OK!.
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