flash platform! {desktop, mobile, touch screen…}

Today 360|Flex starts in Atlanta, if you are an attendee or a speaker I make the “official” 360 flex mobile application in Flash Lite 2.

In this app you can find 3 sections:

• speakers
• schedule
• twitter

In the last section (twitter) you can read last post in your twitter and write one in your account.
I use SWX API to create this mesh up, very cool API made by Aral Balkan (thank you man!) that allow to make mesh up of twitter, flickr and so on.

Download zip file and put swf and XML files in your Flash Lite 2 phone….Enjoy!

Obviusly you can have one for Europe event… stay tuned!

UPDATE:

I must say THANK YOU to chall3ng3r that made for me .sis files with SWF2GO, his software that allow to create file for S60 phones.
Thank you man!
Now you can download also .sis file for S60 3rd edition and 2nd edition

Sign this date in your calendar, today guys are out Flex 3 and AIR 1.0

In the last years Adobe made an amazing work on those technologies and it could be a big pleasure start work on them.
Lots of us use Flex  3 since Beta in labs and we love it, because finally we have a true development software and with last release we increase the power of this technolgy.

Air, it’s my favourite software, I love it, it’s so simple and so powerful and has a lots of functionalities that help us to create fantastic and complex desktop application.

The first thing that I do this morning is watching Adobe.com and I suggest to take a look at AIR page and Flex page, you can find a lots of interesting things!

Today Adobe makes the history.

Finally it’s coming!!!

OnAIR tour is coming in Europe, 12 dates from March to June in all Europe… that’s wonderful!
Registrations are open so choose your city and register yourself, I’ll go to Italian date (13 June) in Milan with a lots of Italian developers and designers.

If you come in Milan, please send me an email so we could meet to have dinner togheter!

Adobe launches a new service at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona for mobile operators and OEM that allow to create custom interface to deliver informations.

This service is ONLY for those categories and for designers and developers are so interesting because we have a new way to deliver flash lite contents.
In fact we could use Flash CS3 and Device Central to create and test our flash lite contents for Flash Home or Flash Cast.

So now we are waiting which operators are available to deliver Flash Lite content with Flash Home, in particular in Europe where there aren’t a lots of operators that believe in Flash Lite (Flash Cast or Flash Home), I hope this situation will change with Flash home coming.

If you want read more about 3GMS news and Flash Home, take a look at Adobe Flash Home page.

My last project is an Image manipulator made with Flex and AIR, so I guide a user to manipulate (rotation, resizing…) an image, choosen from own computer, with a wizard.
When I was at Rotation step, I said: “and now?!”.

Infact if you use rotation property of an Image component it rotates in 0,0, but there is a little trick to rotate an image or component with origin in the middle.
If you use Rotate effect, you can decide which is the origin point, so if you write:

var rotEff:Rotate = new Rotate();
//img is the ID of Image component in MXML file
rotEff.target = img;

rotEff.originX = img.width/2;
rotEff.originY = img.height/2;

rotEff.duration = 1500;
rotEff.angleFrom = img.rotation;
rotEff.angleTo = img.rotation + 90;

rotEff.play(); 

With those script you can rotate an image or component in the middle.
That’s a little trick!
Enjoy

… is a conference! It is the BIGGEST web conference of the world!

Over 100 speakers from all over the world we will suggest, inspire, teach and…
I’ve no word to describe this fantastic idea, one of the most important thing that I must do every January is choose what conference follow in the year… and Singularity I MUST FOLLOW from my office or home or everywhere and I love it!

Singularity is a 3 days web sessions that will start in the end of October, for now we haven’t a lots of informations but if you want to learn more, take a look at singularity site!

Aral you are a geek!