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May Meetups! Building Real Mobile Apps with HTML/JS/PhoneGap last week

We will be doing a couple of presentations here in Florida on building mobile applications with HTML/JS and PhoneGap that you will not want to miss if you’re anywhere near the area. Christophe Coenraets, Greg Wilson and myself will be presenting two 3 hour workshops in Orlando and Tampa on …

Upcoming Flex Events last month

If you’re looking for a great conference to attend, 360|Flex is right around the corner and you should definitely make a point of checking it out. Most developers consider this to be *the* conference to attend and glancing at the schedule, you can see why. My fellow teammate, …

Adobe’s Commitments to Flex – Official Whitepaper 3 months ago

There have been a lot of questions about the viability and future of Flex recently, and Adobe has published an official whitepaper today detailing their support for Flex going forward. The paper also contains details regarding Flash runtime support, Flash Builder support and other Apache …
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Flex Mobile Development – Dynamic Splash Screens 3 months ago

Flash Builder 4.6 includes a new feature to allow you to add a dynamic splash screen component to your mobile application. This feature will allow you to load a different image based on a few different properties you can set to ensure you get the best image for the right device. The properties …

Apache Flex Update! 3 months ago

It’s been quite the roller coaster in the Flex world these past few months to say the least! Now seemed like a good time for an update on the latest status of things. Adobe Flex to Apache Flex Adobe Flex is now Apache Flex (in case you’ve been under a rock lately or perhaps just [...]

Game of Flex for Tablets Released! 5 months ago

My fellow teammate Michael Chaize recently had an idea for creating a ‘game’ to showcase Flex and the latest 4.6 release features with Tour de Mobile Flex being the initial inspiration. I’m happy to announce that the Game of Flex is now available on both the Apple iTunes and …

Flex Mobile Development – Adding Maps with the MapQuest … 5 months ago

A topic that has come up often in my conversations with developers lately is how to easily add mapping components to their their Flex and Flash mobile apps. Now I’m super excited to share this latest AS3/Flash API for mobile from MapQuest for everyone to check out! The new version contains …

Flex Mobile Development – SplitViewNavigator Tutorial (w/ … 5 months ago

The SplitViewNavigator is another new Flex 4.6 component targeted for tablet development that can be used when you want to create a master view / detail view in your application, where the master view typically serves as a source of navigation and the detail view displays the results of the …

Flex Mobile Development – Flex 4.6 Cool New Soft Keyboard … 5 months ago

Flex 4.6 (release going public TODAY – I will update this post with the link as soon as I have it) – includes some nice soft keyboard enhancements to be aware of, including setting a certain type of keyboard or setting the default return key lable, and even auto-correcting and …

Flex is Alive! 5 months ago

Flex folks, first of all, today there’s a new official statement out on the Adobe website about Adobe’s commitments to the Flash Platform including plans for Flex that you should be aware of. Secondly there’s a new post from the Product Management team out now summarizing the …