Happy New Year 2012, my friends!

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 31 Desember 2011 0 komentar

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! ;-)





Baca Selengkapnya ....

Adobe Flex: useful stuff for mobile development, part 2

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 13 Desember 2011 0 komentar
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 with AIR runtime, and now Adobe Flex applications on mobile platforms (Android, iOS, etc.) show good performance and list of available features. At the same time, evangelists team has prepared a bunch of demo projects for popularizing of Adobe Flex as technology for cross-platform development.


Expense tracker application





The Expense Tracker Reference Application is a sample application created with Flex 4.6. It will introduce you to the major updates in the Flex 4.6 SDK, and demonstrate best practices for designing and developing a CRUD-based experience for mobile, tablet, and web platforms. The three Flex 4.6 Reference Applications use the ViewNavigatorApplication class as an application base for screen management, the ItemRenderer and LabeltItemRenderer/IconItemRenderer classes for list controls, and the MultiDPIBitmapSource and RuntimeDPI providers as means to manage different DPIs on different devices.
More info and source code:


Shopping cart application























The Shopping Cart Reference Application is a sample application created with Flex 4.5. It will introduce you to the major updates in the Flex 4.5 SDK, and demonstrate best practices for designing and developing a shopping experience for both mobile and web platforms. The three Flex 4.5 Reference Applications use the ViewNavigatorApplication class as an application base for screen management, the ItemRenderer and LabeltItemRenderer/IconItemRenderer classes for list controls, and the MultiDPIBitmapSource and RuntimeDPI providers as means to manage different DPIs on different devices.
More info and source code:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/shopping-cart-application.html


Sales dashboard application























The Sales Dashboard Reference Application is a sample application created with Flex 4.6. It will introduce you to the major updates in the Flex 4.6 SDK, and demonstrate best practices for designing and developing an enterprise sales dashboard experience for mobile, tablet, and web platforms. The three Flex 4.6 Reference Applications use the ViewNavigatorApplication class as an application base for screen management, the ItemRenderer and LabeltItemRenderer/IconItemRenderer classes for list controls, and the MultiDPIBitmapSource and RuntimeDPI providers as means to manage different DPIs on different devices.
More info and source code:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/sales-dashboard-application.html


Sample application for tablet with latest Flex 4.6 components





















The Flex 4.6 SDK features used in the application are:
  • SplitViewNavigator with state handling (uses new properties to put the first view in a Callout when in portrait mode due to screen space)
  • New Callout component
  • New CalloutButton component
  • New SpinnerList component (and corresponding SpinnerListContainer)
  • New ToggleSwitch component
  • Dynamic Splash Screen
  • Soft Keyboard Type handling (showing the numeric soft keyboard for example)
More info and source code:
http://devgirl.org/2011/10/31/flex-mobile-development-building-tablet-apps-full-example-with-source-code/


Game of Flex for tablets























If you want to check the source code of the app, you’ll learn:
  • How to use the new SplitViewNavigator architecture (portrait and landscape layouts on tablet devices)
  • How to display HTML content inside a Flex app
  • How to access the camera to take pictures
  • How to use the BusyIndicator, ToggleSwitch and List components
  • How to enable multi-touch
  • How to manage your views
  • How to use the accelerometer
  • How to create custom AS3 item renderers for your lists
  • How to access the local SQLite database
  • How to use native extensions
  • How to set up the new DateSpinner component
  • How to display callout popups
  • How to set up the software keyboard to match your needs
  • How to declare spinner lists
More info and source code:
http://www.riagora.com/2011/12/game-of-flex-on-tablets/



Blue Chips application





















The application demonstrates extensive usage of chart components and new Flex 4.6 components that target tablet development.
Description and video:
http://www.riaspace.com/2011/12/flex-4-6-bluechips-demo/
Source code:
https://github.com/pwalczyszyn/BlueChips


When you will start creation of your own mobile application with Adobe Flex, don't forget about performance optimization. It's quite important to provide responsive user interface with seamless interaction.
There is an article that will be quite useful for that purpose:
Flex mobile performance checklist

Have fun! :)


Baca Selengkapnya ....

Adobe Flex: useful stuff for mobile development, part 1

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 10 Desember 2011 0 komentar
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 to:
  • create tablet apps with multiple views and adaptive layouts
  • use new tablet focused UI components, including Callout, SpinnerList, and ToggleButton controls
  • add text inputs with OS-specific interfaces and interactions to your apps
  • package AIR runtime with your application
  • have better integration and usage of ActionScript Native Extensions
In my opinion one of the coolest features is Adobe AIR Captive runtime. Why? Because the ability to package AIR runtime with your application into one file (APK for Android, IPA for iOS, etc.) guarantees the ability to run Flash/Flex/AIR applications and games in proper runtime.

ActionScript Native Extentions is also a great feature. It's a bridge between your Flex mobile app and a native library that can extend the capabilities of the Flex SDK. You can find a list of native extensions such as Notifications, Vibration, Gyroscope API, etc. here:

Also Flex 4.6 contains several new Spark components which will be especially useful in the mobile development for tablet devices:

SplitViewNavigator
One of the most common uses of SplitViewNavigator is the creation of User Interface screen based on a design pattern known as Master/Detail. 























Callout and CalloutButton
The component extends SkinnablePopUpContainer, inherits its all functionality and provides a relatively positioned arrow. This fully skinnable component can contain any kind of content, from a group of components to entire Views.
Figure 2. A basic Callout.


SpinnerList and DateSpinner, that components look & feel are very similar to native iOS spinner components.
Figure 4. The SpinnerList component.

Figure 5. The DateSpinner control.


ToggleButton










Soft Keyboard Parameters
Soft Keyboard Parameters allows you to modify the look of your mobile/tablet soft keyboard to display the best layout for specific text input format: number, email, punctuation, url, contact or default. For example, if you have text input for ZIP code, you can write something like that:
<s:TextInput softKeyboardType="number"/>


In the second part of that article I will show you several examples of nice mobile and cross-platform applications built with Adobe Flex. Many of them are open sourced, so you will be able to investigate their code to improve your skills. See u! ;-)






Baca Selengkapnya ....

Noise around Adobe and Flash/Flex future

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 03 Desember 2011 0 komentar
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 itself.

Many people cry that  Adobe kills Flash and Flex platform with that decision. But it's absolutely not true! In fact Adobe Flash player on mobile devices wasn't very good and most of the users didn't use it. So there is really nothing bad to stop development Flash Player for mobile devices.
What about Flex framework? Well, I am sure that Flex community (which is quite active and skilled) will be able to continue Flex framework development and enrich it with new cool features.
You can read more about community's initiative here: http://www.spoon.as/

Also, to prevent groundless panic and thoughts Adobe posted an article with answers on the most important questions about Flash, Flex future.
Some questions and answers:
- Is Adobe still committed to Flex?
- Yes. ...


- Is Adobe still committed to Flash Builder?
- Yes. ...

- Will Adobe continue to support customers using Flex?
- Yes. ...

- Isn’t Adobe just abandoning Flex SDK and putting it out to Apache to die?
- Absolutely not - ...

- What guarantees can Adobe make in relation to Flex applications continuing to run on Flash Player and Adobe AIR?
- Adobe will continue to support applications built with Flex, as well as all future versions of the SDK running in PC browsers with Adobe Flash Player and as mobile apps with Adobe AIR indefinitely on Apple iOS, Google Android and RIM BlackBerry Tablet OS.

You can find more and full answers here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html

Baca Selengkapnya ....
Trik SEO Terbaru support Online Shop Baju Wanita - Original design by Bamz | Copyright of android illegal.