New Flash Book, Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers By Tiago Dias, Tom Green
Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features. Through the use of solid and practical exercises, you will soon master the fundamentals of this latest edition of the Adobe Flash authoring tool. In Foundation Flash CS5 for Designers, Flash experts Tom Green and Tiago Dias guide you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS5, keeping the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects.
Purchase your copy in eBook format or pre-order through Amazon today!
What you’ll learn:
Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step-by-step tutorials.
Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design.
Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and Tiago Dias.
Learn how to create mobile applications
My interview with Nokiadevs
I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Nokiadevs.com last week. You can now read it here.
In this post, I talk about my journey as a Flash Lite developer and developing on Nokia handsets. I also talk on my Flash Lite game Deep Days and some apps I created using Ovi AppWizard. Hope you like it.
10pm – New Flash Lite game
Breakdesign who have had a successful run of producing Flash games on the Ovi store, have now released 10pm.
Needless to say, this game is also Barking Seed enabled, meaning you can submit scores to the online community; play for your nation and other cool features. I had a talk with Stefan Wessels, the co-founder of Breakdesign, who said – ” The game is different when played between 10pm in the night and 6am in the morning.”
Sounds exciting, as I havent played time- polymorphic games before.
Adobe Announces Availability Of Flash Player 10.1 For Mobile & Devices To Its Platform Partners ……..!!
Via Adobe, yesterday Adobe announce the availability of Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile.
“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web across desktops and devices. Mobile users will now be able to experience millions of sites with rich applications and content inside the browser including games, animations, rich Internet applications (RIAs), data presentations and visualizations, ecommerce, music, video, audio and more.
Already one of the top free apps on Android™ Market today, Flash Player 10.1 will be available as a final production release for smart phones and tablets once users are able to upgrade to Android 2.2 “Froyo.” Devices supporting “Froyo” and Flash Player 10.1 are expected to include the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, DROID by Motorola, Motorola Milestone, Samsung Galaxy S and others. Flash Player 10.1 was also released to mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via over-the-air downloads and to be pre-installed on smart phones, tablets and other devices in the coming months.”
kris
Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 – Call for Proposals
Via Hemanth, Adobe is looking for ” Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 – Call for Proposals “
Do you want to speak at the Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 India? Do submit your proposals today for review! Hurry as the deadlines are near. Last date is 28th of this month. Visit http://www.developermarch.com/adobesummit/callforproposal.htmlto submit your relevant proposal for the event. Drop mails to us or me in case you have doubts or concerns. Submit it for either of the tracks below -
- Develop – this track will find immediate resonance with Web Application, Desktop Application and Mobile Application developers from the world of ActionScript, Flex, Flash, ColdFusion, Java, PHP and .NET, including Game Developers. Architects creating multi-tiered enterprise systems that go beyond basic RIAs will also benefit from this track.
- Design – this track will feature content for Application UI Designers, Interaction Designers as well as designers who currently specialize in web or video and want to expand their skills. If your goal is to create interactive content, applications or video for the browser, desktop, or devices using Adobe technologies then this is the track for you.
Mani
Addendum from krishna Raj:
This Adobe Flash Platform Summit is willbe held on the 24-25 August 2010 at the NIMHANS Convention Center in namma bengaLooru this year and I have planned to attend and looking forward to it!
This event which was earlier called the ‘Dev Summit‘, is touted to be biggest Adobe Flash Platform Summit in terms of topics for both developers and designers for wide range of Web App, Desktop Apps and Mobile Apps.
The event will surely offer the best opportunities to learn from experts, meet and network with lots of designers and developer folks from across the sub-continent and interact with the Adobe team and their partners across both the days of the event.
Organizers are accepting speaker proposals right now, so if you have a topic of interest or proposal, you can submit it, and if its gets approved you can be a part of the speaker list at the event. Looks like 25th June is the last day for submitting proposals!
There are also some good deals on the registration fee for the event, so the sooner you apply on or before 25th June , the better it will be!
Hope to meet you all at the event 
kris
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Some Ovi Stats
My publishing title Chompgames, has been doing quite well at the Ovi store. There are totally three applications under Chompgames umbrella.
- Deep Days – For S40 handsets
- Wallet Watch – For S60 and S40 handsets
- Bollywoodie – For S60 and S40 handsets
Bollywoodie is only 5 days old and has got enormous attention at the store. Thanks to the fanatic Indian cinema lovers. It got a total of 1200 downloads the first 2 days and has been (unexpectedly) downloaded most by Turkey, Mexico and Italy and then India. Does this attest that Indian movies have a greater market abroad ? 
N8, CS5, FL4 And Possibilities Around Them!!!!
The last few months have been very tight schedules for me and left quite a few announcements unrelayed. Nokia launched its first Symbian 3 phone N8. Boasting as the first 12 Megapixel camera embedded, multi-touch supporting device, I think it is one more step forward in bringing greater digital experiences to the hand.
Quite in the same time, Adobe launched CS5 toolkit. This release is viewed as an important leap-ahead in creating homogeneous multi-platform experiences. CS5 facilitates the publishing of Flash content in Flash Player 10.1 versions and in Flash Lite 4. This means AS3 is a viable programming platform for the smartphones. In addition, Device Central CS5 provides ways to emulate physical changes like orientation and provides API to access accelerometer, location etc.
The Nokia N8 is the first Nokia devices to be shipped with Flash Lite 4.0 (Read more). And hence, coming to look of it, Flash developers in the Nokia circuit have new waters to test, experiment and develop with.
Thoughts -
- With all the buzz surrounding Flash Player 10.1 on devices, Adobe has not quite spoken on Flash Lite 4.
- Since we haven’t seen much on Nokia N8, Flash Lite 4′s performance is still unknown on it.
- Earlier S60 phones like 5800, N97 etc had troubles accessing the lower device features like Accelerometer and other sensors. Though external packages were available, they were not found to be stable.
- Will AIR come (at any delayed point in time) for Symbian devices (though very much in the roadmap) ? Since Flash Lite 4 has been ported for the Symbian 3 device, an AIR runtime shouldn’t take a long time is my personal opinion.
Also, recently I have released a web-app for Bollywood news. Also featured are tweets from Bollywood superstars. Go ahead and download it from the Ovi store.
Forum Nokia Online Flash Lite Packager is back!
Here is a great news from Forum Nokia, Forum Nokia Online Flash Lite Packager. Check the document with all the information:
“This document provides developers with information on the Forum Nokia Online Flash Lite Packager. The reasons for the creation of the packager are explained and a full description of how to use the packager provided.”
Here is more infos about Nokia and Flash Mobile.
(Thanks to Alessandro)
New FN article on Touch based interaction
This is an article that I have always had in my mind. It is a tutorial on how to use and detect LongPress on touch based phones. In this article, I talk about the design issues, UI considerations and challenges associated with the longPress gesture.
A simple Flash Lite 2.0 code example has also been attached.
!!!!BOOM!!!! The Apple-Adobe War Escalates………
“Using Flash to Build iPhone Apps Banned” means I am sad about this development….
Yesterday, Apple revised its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement to effectively ban the use of the Flash-to-iPhone converter.
Throughout 2010, Steve Jobs and Apple made it very clear that they do not like Adobe. At all. They prominently left Flash off the iPad, instead promoting HTML5 at every opportunity.
Rest of the post is here. Thanks to them
kris
