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Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 8/3/2011

Posted on Aug 03, 2011

Another busy week of Flash Platform posts including quite a few sample applications and detailed tutorials. While it is not actually focused on the Flash Platform, this week's release of Adobe Edge has surely impacted Flash developers as it continues to be the focus of public discussion surrounding the future of the platform. Obviously, many of these items seem to be agenda driven, but others, like those from Mashable and The New York Times seem, to me, to be more level-headed in their discussion of the impact upon the Flash Platform and Flash developers.

On a side note, sorry for the delay on this week's edition but I was fighting a malfunctioning laptop.

Adobe evangelist Michael Chaize posts about the Eskimo component library that was recently released for adding native control patterns to your Flex mobile applications.

Adobe evangelist Christophe Coenraets demonstrates how to invoke a JavaScript method within StageWebView via Flex on both Android and iOS. This allows your Flex portion of your application to communicate with the HTML portion of your application. Christophe expands upon the topic of hybrid Flex/JavaScript mobile applications by showing how you can use JQuery in a Flex mobile application, including source code. Finally, Christophe released the source for his multi-touch Charts for iOS, Android, and PlayBook (that appeared on a prior posts) on Github.

Adobe evangelist Piotr Walczyszyn shows how to define custom URL schemes for your AIR mobile applications.

Adobe evangelist Duane Nickull offers this tutorial with source code that walks through step-by-step building a multi-platform mobile RSS reader with Flash Builder 4.5.

Bill Sanders covers beginning mobile ActionScript 3.0 design patterns by showing how to build your first mobile application using the strategy design pattern and working within Flash Professional.

Stephen Chin continues his Flex mobile series by discussing improve performance on mobile using Flex's caching features. He also provides a sample application to allow you to test the various caching settings and see the difference it makes.

Antonio Holguin provides this video demonstrating how to skin the Flex mobile ActionBar using Fireworks/Illustrator or by hand-writing FXG in Flash Builder.

Adobe's Steven Shongrunden and Kevin Lin share this Flex tip on controlling the scroll bar visibility in a mobile Scroller or have it appear and fade away.

iOS

New Adobe evangelist Andrew Trice explains why you can't run your AIR application in the iOS simulator which involves understanding the difference between simulators and emulators.

Cool Flex, Flash Builder & Catalyst Stuff

Drew Shefman shows how to work with tab focus within the Spark DataGrid, specifically controlling the manner in which you can tab through editable cells based upon the item data.

Mark Piller shares this video presentation discussing Flex remoting URLs and understanding the "Send Failed" error and how to potentially mitigate the issue.

Adobe's Alex Uhlmann announces some Cairngorm updates including two new non-Adobe team members and migration of the code repository to SourceForge.

Cool ActionScript/Flash Stuff

Several posts announced the release of the AS3 Search Chrome Extension that once installed allows you to easily search the Adobe ActionScript Language Reference from the Chrome address bar.

Jackson Dunstan says that while ActionScript has built-in classes like Dictionary which can be used for one-to-one maps, it has no built-in class suitable for one-to-many maps. Therefore, he created his own class for a fast ActionScript3 MultiMap. Jackson also shows how you can improve the performance of your ActionScript application by using bitwise operators rather than logical operators.

Dan Gries shares a tutorial and sample code showing how to create fireworks using Flash and ActionScript with a 3D particle effect.

Emanuele Feronato continues his tutorial series on how to create terrain similar to that in Tiny Wings with Flash and Box2D with this portion of the series focused on how to make the terrain seem endless and scrolling.

Mirko shares a sample application, though source code isn't provided, that he is working on that can stream local MP3 files without uploading to the server.

Terry Paton shows an early version of the sequel to his popular Meteor Storm game, however this one is almost completely 3D using the new Stage3D (i.e. Molehill) in Flash Player 11.

Cool AIR for Desktop Stuff

Adobe evangelist Andrew Trice explains how you can export AIR mobile applications as AIR desktop applications.

Adobe's Christian Cantrell shows some workarounds to handle the situation when an AIR application prevents Mac OSX from shutting down which he's isolated to a use of event.preventDefault() on the window closing event.

Luca Mezzalira shows how he used Python to create a Windows and Mac solution for a multicast UDP socket in Adobe AIR.

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