O’Reilly has published a set of books by Joseph Labrecque: “What’s New in Flash Player 11” and “What’s New in Adobe AIR 3“. The books are currently only available in digital format (ePub, Mobi, PDF). Read more from here.… Read More

Adobe is pleased to announce the availability of the Adobe® AIR® 2.6 SDK and AIR® 2.6 desktop runtimes for Windows, Mac and Linux…. With AIR 2.6, AIR achieves feature parity for Android and iOS platforms. This new release provides Read More

The last tutorial in our series of gesture tutorial will teach you how to use the pan gesture (two fingers) gesture in Flash mobile application to scroll an object on the stage. Read our tutorial on the AS3 Pan Gesture… Read More

We’re going to look at how to display HTML-formatted text loaded from XML, styled from an external CSS stylesheet with fonts loaded at runtime. We’ll also master inline image placement via the HTML <img> embed tag, and adding custom events… Read More

We previously published tutorials for the swipe gesture and the pinch to zoom gesture, now we are adding another one to our collection: the Rotate Gesture. This one is probably the most simple one to use of all the gestures… Read More

Learn how to take your mobile application to the next level by retrieving location details using the Geolocation Class. This feature is available for iPhone Flash Apps, Flash Lite 4, and Adobe AIR 2. Read our AS3 Geolocation tutorial here.… Read More

It’s always a challenge to develop a chat on the web. You need a real-time message broker in the backend, an architecture that can assume several thousands of concurrent users, a strong authentification layer, etc… Furthermore, if you want to… Read More

This tutorial will teach you an easy method for displaying Google Maps inside you Flash projects using ActionScript 3.0. Read it here.… Read More

I can’t even say how much I was looking forward to this blog post. It’s here! This feature of Flash Player and special screensharing add-in, which you might know from Adobe Connect Pro or Adobe ConnectNow is now available for… Read More

LovelyReader.com has a web and desktop epub reader based on the new text features in Flash Player 10. Text resizes and reflows in layouts you choose. You can navigate with hotkeys or a table of contents. All the text is… Read More

Adobe Czech Republic in cooperation with the youth conference JuniorInternet (by Together CZ) is opening an innovative contest for Czech and Slovak developers to celebrate mobile versions of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR for Android. Enter and win a Google … Read More

During Part 1 of this lengthy tutorial we covered several useful programming techniques including planning, preparing and loading XML, variable and function declaration, scaling, alignment and plenty of others. Let’s now finish off our deceptively simple (and very flexible) copyright… Read More

This huge tutorial will help you learn a number of useful programming techniques, all tied together with a deceptively simple (and very flexible) end result. Grab a cup of coffee and let’s jump into part one.. From the first look… Read More

In this Quick Tip I’ll show you how to use Config Constants to compile different debug and release versions of your code, so you can easily switch between them. Step 1: Config Constants Settings A lot of people don’t know… Read More

LovelyReader.com has a web and desktop epub reader based on the new text features in Flash Player 10. Text resizes and reflows in layouts you choose. You can navigate with hotkeys or a table of contents. All the text is...… Read More

Guest post by Ariel Sommeria and Alexandre Hoyau of Silex-ria.org Silex is a new generation Content Management System: the 1st French Flash CMS…, Open Source and free! So it is natural to watch it arousing real interest from web Read More

Well, hey there, hearty ActionScript Journeyman! You’ve traversed many a strange landscape so far over the last 6 months, but if all went according to plan, you emerged stronger and readier to face the next challenge. Here with the 7th… Read More