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Yeah, New Year 2012 has come! And I am pretty happy with this, because I can say honestly "2011 year, you were a nice time, full of great events, ideas and changes both in my personal and professional lives. Thank you for everything, take rest now".So, 2012 year of the Dragon is here, and I am sure - it will be amazing and sooooo cool, as a dragon is! ...

This is the second part of my post about Adobe Flex usage at mobile platforms.In this post I want to show you several good sample projects of Adobe Flex usage on mobile platforms. All of them have source codes available for download. So if you're interested in cross-platform application creation with Adobe Flex this is a good way for a quick dive! ;)Adobe engineers team has made a great progress...

About one week ago Adobe released Flex SDK 4.6 and Flash Builder 4.6. The main goal of these releases was mobile and especially tablet development. And in this post I want to share some stuff that will inspire and motivate you for mobile development with Adobe technologies.As the official Adobe blog says, the Flex 4.6 release was built on the mobile capabilities introduced in Flex 4.5, enabling you...

Hello fellows! After I a long vacation finally I am back now and ready for new challenges! :)As you may know last weeks there were a lot of talks about Adobe's decision to stop Adobe Flash player development for mobile devices. Plus, Adobe announced intention to donate Flex framework to the community via Apache Software Foundation. So, Adobe Flex 4.6 is the last version that was developed by Adobe...

As we all know the next version of Android was publicly released on 19 October 2011!It's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich!Ice Cream Sandwich is designed for use with both phones and tablets. This will level the gap between 2.x and 3.x Android versions that we have now for phones and tablets respectively. Android 4.0 new features:Virtual buttons in the UI, instead of taking up a capacitive screenVoice...

This is the second part of the article about XML parsing. The first part of it is available here.In this post I want to tell you about one 3rd party XML handling lib that you may want to use in Android development.It's Simple framework. Simple is a high performance XML serialization and configuration framework originally from Java world. But it can be used in Android too. It offers...

Today I want to share my thoughts about XML parsing on Android. It's true, that XML parsing is one of the most frequent task in Android development - a lot of web-services have their data responses in XML format.So, what do we have in Android to parse XML data?Out of the box we have DOM, SAX and XMLPull parsers. DOM (Document Object Model) parser is the well-known (especially for web developers)...

Nice screen background, isn't it? :)Today I will show you an easy Android design trick how to create very beautiful backgrounds for your Android applications in just 2 minutes!For example, imagine that you have some simple form like this:It's pretty boring, huh?Now let's make this UI screen more attractive. ;-) What we can do with background? Yeah, we can set some fancy solid color or even gradient...

We all know that User Interface is an extremely important part for every application that pretends to be attractive and popular among users. This is the axiom. Android mobile system is very popular and is installed on a big variety of devices: from low-tier cell phones (like HTC Hero) with small low density screens to high-tier phones (like Motorola Atrix, Samsung Galaxy S, etc.) and tablets...

Today I want to show you a nice image manipulation trick that you can do in Flex. Imagine that you have image of some paper object (like envelope or flyer):and you want to transform it a little bit to get a realistic look of the folded paper. Something like this:I will show you how to do it! ;)Solution...1) Slice original image into several parts:  var imageData:BitmapData =...