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Thoughts on Open Screen Project and iPhone
Posted by Matthew Wallace in Flash, Flash Player, iPhone on August 22nd, 2009
I was reading a blog post on Effective UI blog and I started to leave a comment and I relized my comment was pretty much turning into a blog post so figured I would just post my thoughts on the matter here.
Here is the Effective UI post that I was starting to comment on.
As a Flash Developer myself I would love to see the flash player come to iphone. Now the question remains to be seen if Apple should actually play nice and join the open screen project. Why have they not done this? I am guessing it has to do with the value of the App Store. If Flash developers could bring games to the phone the I guess it would be some loss in sales but I really don’t see that happening.
In regards to the App Store …. Apple could bring a tone of developers to the phone to sell more apps if they would some how work out a way for flash developers to build games that could be sold on the app store. Just a thought I had, as I myself start learning iphone development. I keep wishing I could just write AS3, a language that I have spent a tone of time learning and becoming really good at. Some of the other things that would be wonderful would be to just be able to view Flash content on a web page and not get the damn missing plugin icon in safari on the phone.
What I do know is a couple of things. Apple is a very innovative company, but sometimes we have to think “WTF” and scratch your head at things Apple does. “Why are they doing what they are doing?” Safari on the phone runs extreamly well and they built it to run web standard code like know other mobile browser. To not include support for a plugin that corners the market with an astonding 98.8% penetration for Flash Player 9 and 86.7% for Flash Player 10 seems pretty lame to me to leave that out for this long as they have. Expecially when you have a company like Adobe who is ready willing and able to work with Apple to make the improvemnts needed to the player to get it “iPhone worthy”.
I truly believe that Apple has the best intentions to supply their costumers with the best experience using both innovative hardware and software. I am sure Adobe is doing all they can too make mobile experiences better for everyone. Over the last few years we have seen there products become better and better when they have taken the lead to work with the community and other companies to make there technology better and has truly made platforms like Flash a world wide standard. I wish that apple would get on board. I guess we will just have to see.
I truly feel that iPhone and the SDK is taking mobile development by storm and it is a great way to go if you want to become a mobile developer and I also feel just as strong about Flash Player. It is installed and used on more devices than any other plugin technology in the world. My personal openion is that Flash Player will become more used and just as powerful if not more powerful than Sun Microsystems JVM. We are starting to see this with other technologies from Adobe. Namely Adobe AIR. I know we will continue to see great things from Adobe and Apple and as a Developer I am excited to see these things evolve. I only ask that companies like Apple and Adobe continue to do their best to listen to there customers and bring our thoughts and talent into the evolutions of there products as well.
Flex / Flash Camp and Adobe Tour June 19th
Posted by Matthew Wallace in ActionScript 3, Events, Flash, Flex on June 5th, 2009
Speaker List and Schedule
You must RSVP for 1 or both events http://615flex.eventbrite.com/
Half Day Flash / Flex Camp
When: June 19, 2009
Doors: 9:30am
Start: 10:00am
Where: Nashville, TN http://www.anthonybillups.com/
Speakers: Scot Clausing, Ben Stucki, Mike Orth, Deke Smith, Aaron West, Matthew Wallace
Matthew Wallace - Senior Flash Developer / RIA Architect
The mechanic behind all things Flash at RW and now Moontoast. Also under the hood, he also does some Java / Red5 development. “Tell me what you want it to do, and I will make it happen”, is basically Matthew’s goal on any project.
You can check out more and follow what Matthew Wallace is up to in a few places.
- Blog: http://flashalisious.com
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/mswallace
This session will cover the Flash IDE and Flex Builder as your code editor work flow. In this session Matthew will use Flash to set up the User interface of a comon web site layout and the show you how to set up Flex Builder to do all your actionscript coding, because we all know the Flash IDE code editor suck!
For getting your ass there early the first 15 seats will have a free book just for coming to my session. You will get and Actionscript 3 for Flash CS3 just for showing up!
Mike is a Senior Flex/AS3 Consultant & Music Industry veteran. Early in his career, he started his own record label and worked with Grammy award-winning artists. During the rise of the digital age, he quickly went from creating artist websites to creating cutting-edge interactive music applications. Mike now leads development teams around the globe and has authored code published in the Flex 3 Cookbook. Combining his creative talent and extensive RIA knowledge, Mike specializes in overall application design, architecture, user interaction, and other awesome buzzwords.Lunch brake – 1:15 – 2:15
Deke Smith started his career as an art director and graphic designer within the print world. He became enamored with the possibilities of electronic media and began a user interface design company in the early years of the Internet. That company later merged with another and he got bought out. His love of exploring how electronic media can be exploited to communicate has continued. With Flash, and later Flex, he saw the first tool that fulfilled the mission that Java and HTML never solved convincingly: to give developers the power to mesh the user’s desktop and the power and data of servers together as one application. Flash, as a tool, had the advantages of the Web without many of the user interface restrictions. Today he focuses on programming user experiences in Flash and Flex.Deke’s session will start at 2:20pm – 3:10pm – A Few Common Pitfalls in Flex.
The power of Flex is that it makes so many complex tasks easy. But problems can arise if the man behind the curtain is ignored. This session is about what Flex does to make a developer’s easier and how what goes on in the background can cause very hard to debug problems in that developer’s code.
Scot Clausing is a local Flex & Java developer with sincere interest in mobile development and 3D interactive design. While he has daily exposure to all areas of the development process, his true passions are application architecture, UI design and teaching. Since the introduction of Adobe Flex 2, RIA development has been an obsession and has provided a truly enjoyable and fulfilling career path. After three years, Flex & Flash Builder 4 re-ignite that obsession.This is the session to see if you’re interested in getting started with the Flash Builder 4 beta, now available on http://labs.adobe.com. The presentation will highlight some cool new features of the IDE, and then jump right into the goods. I may include such topics as: The Flash Player 10 Text Engine (which is awesome), Skinning components with FXG, Creating custom components, and the wonderful new syntax for States. If you have a topic you are especially interested in, please send me an email or drop me a line at http://blog.tsclausing.com.
Ben Stucki is an independent software developer in Nashville, TN. He might have had an average, every-day job selling retail electronics or installing cable, but he doesn’t. He designs and develops bleeding edge web applications using Flex, ActionScript 3, Java, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Apparently he’s pretty good at it. He speaks at events just to rub it in.From ByteArrays to Sound APIs the Flash Player has grown a lot in the last few years. In this talk Ben will take a look at Flash Platform features you may not even know existed and show you how to use them in the latest Flex 4 SDK.
Flex Tour Doors: 6:00pm – Start: 7:00pm
Where: Nashville, TN http://www.anthonybillups.com/
Speakers: Greg Wilson
Greg is an Adobe Enterprise Platform Evangelist – Flex, AIR, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Acrobat. Photographer, Pilot and the combination of both http://www.tigeraerial.com
Greg will be speaking about some of the changes coming to the Flash and Flex Frameworks.
Beer and food will be provided before and after the Adobe event.
Prizes will be awarded during the evening. Currently some of the prizes consist of Adobe Flex and CS4 product licenses. We are also hopeful to have some sponsored swag.
Following the event will be a mixer with a live DJ. This will be an opportunity for you to get to know some of your colleagues and just hang. We will try to wrap up around 10:00pm.
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