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ADC Web Standards Monthly – FREE Newsletter
Brian Rinaldi at the Adobe Developer Connection (ADC) has recently put together a free monthly newsletter to help keep you up to date on all the latest and greatest content available on the ADC. The topics span a variety of subjects including HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Mobile Development, PhoneGap, Responsive Design and more. The January newsletter [...]
Filed in: CSS • HTML/JS • Mobile Development • PhoneGap • Uncategorized
Styling your App with Twitter Bootstrap
Twitter Bootstrap is an open source toolkit to help you create visually pleasing interfaces for your web and mobile apps quickly. According to this article it’s the most watched and forked repository in GitHub. A couple of developers that work for Twitter wrote the framework (hence the name), you can follow them on twitter at [...]
Filed in: HTML/JS • Mobile Development • Uncategorized
Adobe Shadow – Inspect/Debug your Mobile Web Content
Adobe Shadow is a great new tool from Adobe that allows developers to design and develop their mobile web content quickly by providing a way to inspect and debug from their desktops wirelessly and synchronously across multiple devices. It essentially allows a developer to browse web content on their desktops and see that same content [...]
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Flex Mobile Development – Building Tablet Apps – Full Example with Source Code!
I just returned from RIA Unleashed where Christophe and I presented a Flex Mobile Boot Camp session. In this session we built an Expense Reporting application called XpenseIt, specifcally targeted for tablet devices. We originally presented a 4.5.1 version at MAX, but wanted to utilize all the awesome new components available in Flex 4.6. We’re [...]
Filed in: Flash Builder 4.5 • Flex 4.5 • Flex 4.5/Mobile • Flex 4.6 • Flex Mobile • Mobile Development • Uncategorized
Flex Mobile Development – Encrypting Data
Adobe AIR 3.0 Beta is now publicly available and includes a key feature that many may not yet be aware of, EncryptedLocalStore support. The EncryptedLocalStore is a class that ‘provides a persistent, encrypted data storage mechanism.’ This class was available for use in AIR Desktop applications but restricted on mobile until this latest AIR 3.0 [...]
Filed in: Adobe AIR • AIR for Android • Flash Builder 4.5 • Flex 4.5 • Flex 4.5/Mobile • Flex 4.6 • Flex Mobile • Mobile Development • Uncategorized
Building Tablet Applications at MAX 2011!
Adobe MAX is coming soon and I’m very excited to be co-presenting a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Lab with Christophe Coenraets this year! The official title is Building an Enterprise App for Android Tablets in 90 Minutes, however we will be targeting Tablet devices in general, not just Android. You will walk away from [...]
Filed in: Flex Mobile • Uncategorized
I’ve joined Adobe!
As of today I have officially joined Adobe as a full-time Flash Platform Technical Evangelist! This isn’t a huge change for me in that I’ve actually been doing work as a contractor for various groups within Adobe since 2004, with the last 3 years specifically for Greg Wilson’s Platform Evangelism team, but I’m very excited [...]
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Exit vs Suspend your iOS Application
When developing for iOS, you should be aware of a setting that will allow you to completely exit your application rather than just suspend to the background (due to the iOS 4.0 multitasking features allowing you to move quickly between your applications). There’s a key that can be specified in your AIR app-descriptor.xml iPhone section [...]
Filed in: Adobe AIR • Flash Builder 4.5 • Flex 4.5 • Flex 4.5/Mobile • Flex iOS • Mobile Development • Uncategorized
Flex/AIR for iOS Development Process Explained!
So you’ve heard the great news and downloaded Flash Builder 4.5.1 supporting iOS, what now?! The process to become an iOS developer with Apple can be a bit daunting. This post is intended to help make the process easier and more understandable for those looking to develop applications for iPhone, iPad etc. My best advice [...]
Filed in: Adobe AIR • Flash Builder 4.5 • Flex 4.5 • Flex 4.5/Mobile • Flex Android • Flex iOS • Flex/AIR • Mobile Development • Uncategorized
Flex 4.5 Mobile Development – Tabs on Top
The Flex 4.5 TabbedViewNavigatorApplication for mobile development includes a set of tab buttons at the bottom of the screen by default, such as: However, there may be times when you prefer to have your tabs at the top of your screen instead. This post shows how this can be done quickly. The steps I need [...]
Filed in: Flash Builder 4.5 • Flex 4.5 • Flex 4.5/Mobile • Flex Mobile • Uncategorized
