Archive of posts filed under the AIR Mobile category.

Adobe Tooling goes mobile with Adobe Touch Apps

Today at the Adobe MAX 2011 keynote, Kevin Lynch announced the Adobe Touch Apps which are a set of apps running on Tablets making their tools mobile. Look at the videos to look how Adobe tools become mobile!
Check out Photoshop touch and Proto, pretty impressive.
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Amazon Kindle Fire era!

When Apple launched the iPhone I made a post about Apple becoming a Mobile Content Network Operator. History reapeats itself!
I think Amazon Kindle Fire might be the same idea. The secret behind the iPhone success is iTunes! iTune has been the platform that lead Apple to drive all paying customers into the iPhone/iPad era. Yes, [...]

Adobe AIR: Multi-Screen application running on Android, iOS and Playbook

Here is a video showcasing Adobe AIR application running on multiple devices and OS, such as Android, iOS an PlayBook.
While the press always point to Flash on the web or mobile web, the power of Adobe AIR to develop for multiple devices is a very good proposition which does get much attention.

by the way, Adobe [...]

Flash 11 and AIR 3 announced

Adobe announced Flash 11 and AIR 3. There are a lot of new features and better performance.

Accelerated 2D/3D Graphics: Full hardware-accelerated rendering for 2D and 3D graphics enable 1,000 times faster rendering performance over Flash Player [...]

Google Android 550000 phones per day and Android Market 250000 apps

Via IntoMobile, yestarday Google has its quaterly earnings and showed some interesting statistics about Android:

550000 activated devices per day
250000 apps in Android Market

Also here some more infos:

The official number of Android applications in the market is 250,000 – this doesn’t include third-party app stores
There have been over 6 billion application downloads from the Android Market [...]

Adobe Labs: Flash Player 11 beta and Adobe AIR 3 beta available

You can find on the Adobe Labs the new Flash Player 11 beta and Adobe AIR 3 beta available.
AIR 3 delivers innovation for rich engaging applications with unparalleled performance improvements that deliver advanced graphics rendering, high-definition video, and consistent reach across operating systems and devices. AIR 3 is packed with features that [...]

Adobe DevNet article: Using Flash Builder 4.5 to package applications for BlackBerry Tablet OS devices

Here is an article on the Adobe DevNet: Using Flash Builder 4.5 to package applications for BlackBerry Tablet OS devices
“Flash Builder 4.5 includes support for packaging Flex and ActionScript applications for Google Android, Apple iOS, and BlackBerry Tablet OS devices. The process for acquiring signing certificates and provisioning application packages for the [...]

Adobe DevNet article: Flex mobile skins articles

Here 3 great articles on the Adobe DevNet on Flex mobile skins

Flex Mobile: Optimized skinning basics
Flex Mobile: Handling different pixel densities
Flex Mobile: Multiplatform development

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 3 Android App Stores

Today I installed the 3rd App Store on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Android Market
Samsung Apps
Amazon Appstore (this is why it might make sense)

Will try to make a video on the last 2 app stores.

Why would you want to have 3 app stores on your device? Well many times app store have promotions on premium contnet [...]

Nokia N9, Android app support Alien Dalvik, AIR Mobile/Flash ?

Via Slashgear.com, it’s known that there is project, Alien Dalvik, to run Android apps on MeeGo and Playbook, it might be a way to get AIR Mobile/Flash to run on the Nokia MeeGo devices like the Nokia N9.
“Alien Dalvik allows app stores and developers to simply repackage the Android .apk installation files and then [...]

AIR 2.7 Mobile for Android available for download

Via Paul, great news today, a new release is available for AIR 2.7 and AIR 2.7 SDK. Check your Android device for the update.

Enhanced rendering for iOS – AIR apps for iOS render up to 4x faster in CPU mode. This change will improve the performance of many AIR for iOS apps, including those built [...]

Video: enhanced video performance with Flash 10.3 on Android 3.1

Here is  a video showcasing some new video performance for Flash on Android 3.1

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FDS, Mobile List, Scroller and Touch

Here is a great and deatailed article on the Adobe Open Source site: Mobile List, Scroller and Touch – Functional and Design Specification
“On a Touch Device, Flash Player dispatches both touch events and mouse events. Because we are not supporting multi-touch and don’t care about the user being able to control two [...]