Chuck FreedmanIt’s been 2 years since I wrote a native iPhone app and successfully launched it to the App store. I have been working with native Android off and on since July of 2010. Learning (really playing) with these respective platform technologies has been challenging and fun. In researching some new platform strategies for litl, I [...]
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Video: Review and demo of AIR for TV
In this video, I review Adobe’s AIR for TV Developer Kit and discuss where it could have great potential for developers getting content and apps on TVs. Also demoed is a 3D Flash game Kevin Suttle and I originally created for litl’s accelerometer-driven set top box prototype. The ported version of the game relies on [...]
litl SDK Available, Developers get webbook for $199
At FlashAndTheCity, we officially launched our Developer Center at http://developer.litl.com. You can now sign up for the SDK, which is in private beta. To date, we’ve approved 75% of developer signups based on Flash experience, and more importantly, ideas for channels developers want to build. The latter is important to ensure we dedicate support early [...]
Twitter making its own apps concerns developers
My HTC Intredible shipped with a Twitter app built-in called Peep. It was cool, but lacked some polish I enjoy with Seesmic’s Twhirl AIR app on my desktop. Being new to Android, I didn’t realize that features like taskbar notifications were available to other apps — so I was really impressed when I saw a [...]
AIR mobile and the mystery that awaits us!
I started writing a lengthy comment in response to brother Kevin Suttle‘s very concise and well-written celebration post on the announcement of AIR for Android and Mobile. Please read that first here: http://kevinsuttle.com/2010/02/15/air-mobile-will-spark-the-era-of-contextual-applications/ In response to that post and many other announcements today, I have a lot of thoughts and questions I’d like to air [...]
Flex Example: Populating Value Objects with web service XML
I am working on a little AIR application that stores data both locally (SQLlite) and on a web service (PHP/MySQL) that I’m building in parallel. When the app starts, it requests initial data to populate a pair of DataGrids in the AIR app. I’m sending a URLRequest against a URLLoader with simple params and getting [...]
Presenting to a packed house at FOTB
I’ve heard rumors that over a hundred were turned away from my session today at FOTB. I’m happy to say that my debut presentation at Flash on the Beach was super fun and very successful. The stereo microphone demonstrations were flawless. All in all, the questions and audience participation were the best I’ve ever experienced. [...]
Coding iPhone and Flash Mobile, back to back
After spending the bulk of my ‘personal coding time’ over the last 6 weeks on building my first iPhone game/application, I’ve moved on to another mobile coding platform. After 6 weeks of learning Objective C and Xcode (also my first time coding on a Mac), I’ve jumped back in time to a mobile platform called [...]
Going under Flash and Flex, Ribbit to release RESTful API
Internally, much of the company has been chanting “we are going beyond Flash and Flex”, but I don’t think the word ‘beyond’ is right to say. Maybe ‘to the side’. Definitely not ‘over’. Probably not ‘in a tangent’. However I can get myself to say it, Ribbit is about to offer the global developer community [...]
Flex Example: simple slide out menu using effects
A lot of Flex developers resort to Flex ‘states’ when adding interactivity and transitions to their applications. I built the sample below to show a colleague that using Flex ‘effects’ are some times easier and involve less code than ‘states’. This simple example (very beginner) shows how you could build a slide out menu bar [...]
