Yes, I have been away for blogging for quite sometime now and my apologies for the same. The last few months have been quite happening with new launches of innovative products by some companies like Adobe and some new events and work at an induvidual front as well. Now that I got a little bit [...]
I recently launched a FREE app for Blackberry Playbook called Confidential manager. It essentially speeds up the time taken for online purchases, by storing all your Credit / Debit card numbers in one place. All you need to do is swipe between apps and copy-paste the numbers. It comes with a very simplistic and user [...]
Well, I have been doing a lot of small code UI components that are heavily reused. One such component that I made today was a game score ticker. Remember seeing scrolling numbers in lottery or jackpot genre games, where the numbers keeps flipping until a target number? If you have been playing games, you would [...]
So after using the Playbook for nearly one month, I thought I shall list down some interesting apps and games built in AIR that caught my eye. GeeReader and Pipeline Both these RSS readers have Google Reader synch options which is very important to me. Similarly I know most of you would also be using [...]
Around last month, Blackberry introduced debug tokens that can be used to test/debug applications for developers in the Playbook. My good friend Mitch, wrote a blogpost on how to use the debug token. He describes the entire process in four steps Initial Requirements, which involves checking whether you have all the files necessary. Command Line and [...]
As I had mentioned in my previous post, I wrote an AIR application for the Blackberry Playbook, the newest of the tablets that run Flash. I got a Blackberry Playbook device yesterday and these are my early impressions – 1. Great hardware build and finish. When you have it in your hands, you get a [...]
Paul Trani, an Adobe Evangelist here describes the different contextual gestures that are possible on the Blackberry tablet – Playbook. He describes how to design and plan layouts that would best suit for the portrait and landscape orientations of the Playbook. Additionally, the tablet has specific gestures like the Xoom. The bezels of the Playbook are [...]
Repost from the Adobe Blog, 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 significant improvements for iOS app development as well as updates for Android [...]
I have been quite busy over the last 1 month that I couldn’t spare sometime on blogging. The reason can be attributed to a lot of things 1. Rapid innovations and new toolkits in the Flash platform. 2. The new Nokia Microsoft deal 3. Cricket World Cup ;) There are a lot of good reasons [...]
While my primary involvement at Adobe happens to be around the ActionScript language, I also have some background in security, and recently I have been thinking about channeling some of that into designing and implementing tools for secure programming in ActionScript. ActionScript programs are compiled to run as Flash applications (on the web) or as [...]
