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50-inch Multitouch Plasma Running Adobe AIR

April 20th, 2010

Kuba Wagner (j4w.cz) and I were recently working on couple simple multi-touch apps for the CS5 Launch in Prague. These apps - developed in Flash CS5/AIR - are running on a brand-new prototype 50-inch multi-touch plasma on Windows 7.

multitouch-pong

See the sneak peek video. We already have a couple more apps, this is just a taste. Stay tuned for more!!!

btw: total size of this Pong game - 9KB

Click here for full quality video

HP’s slate running Flash Player and AIR

March 9th, 2010

adobe-hpYou don’t know it yet, but you really want to see this :)
With this upcoming device from HP, you will be able to enjoy the full rich web experience.

Go and watch it now!

HP's upcoming slate device running Flash

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Further reading:
Read the blog post by Phil McKinney (CTO for HP’s Personal Systems)

E-seminar materials: P2P Programming in Flash

March 4th, 2010

As promised, here are the links, presentation and materials I used and covered in my E-seminar on P2P Programming in Flash on Wednesday 3rd March:

Links:

Tutorials:

Invitation to E-seminar
P2P Programming in Flash Player 10.1

February 26th, 2010

flash-p2pJoin me for an online e-seminar on P2P Programming in Flash. I will be covering the basics of P2P in Flash, new P2P features in Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Stratus, P2P bits of LCCS, Multicast, RTMFP Groups and future possibilities.

Free registration here (+ add event to your calendar)

Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Time:

  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM (San Francisco)
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (New York)
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (London)
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Prague, Paris, Barcelona)
  • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Abu Dhabi)
  • 11:00 PM - 12:00 PM (Singapore)

Prerequisites for a successful seminar:
- Flash Builder 4 Beta 2
- Flash Player 10.1 Beta 3 debug version installed
- Flex 4 Framework

Meeting will be at this Connect room: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p2p-in-flash.

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Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Goes Mobile

February 25th, 2010

Adobe® Acrobat® Connect® Pro™ is a web-conferencing tool and it’s one of the best examples of a realtime collaboration RIA app on the internet.

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Mobile

What if you don’t have a PC with you and still want to attend an online meeting. One of the features Connect Pro has is to connect people on a telephone via VOIP bridge so they can hear and participate by voice. But there are situations, when you want to fully attend the meeting via mobile.

Today Adobe introduced Adobe Connect Pro Mobile for iPhone, which you can download for free from iTunes. You can see the shared desktop (slides, pictures…), watch the live camera and chat. All simplified to fit the screen and usability on the iPhone.

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Connect Pro is a nice example of a Contextual App - the app running the same context with adjusted user experience to fit the best on different devices.

All written in ActionScript 3.0
What’s even better is that Connect Pro and Connect Pro Mobile are both written completely in Flash/ActionScript 3.0. iPhone version is standalone app compiled to native bytecode using Adobe Packager for iPhone (available later this year). At Mobile World Congress 2010 we have announced AIR 2.0 for Mobile Devices and previewed Connect Pro Mobile running on Android (Motorola Droid). Which is simply the same code written and compiled in the next generation of Flash Pro to Android and iPhone. Android version was just a preview but it’s supposed to be available in the future for download as well. Together with this - AIR 2.0 is planned to be available in the second half of 2010. Basically you’ll be able to build your apps in Flash Pro by writing one base code and simplify porting to different devices.

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Connect Pro running on Mac in browser, iPhone and Motorola Droid.

Video: iPhone apps built with Flash - showing Connect Pro Mobile