Here's the second in a series of short videos featuring Flash Catalyst. It talks about buttons and how to reuse and style them.
Adobe: July 2010 Archives
In this teaser, we convert an Illustrator file to Flash Catalyst. The project is an e-book reader made specifically for Alice in Wonderland. Learn more at cs-magic.com
Adobe pushed out updates to Flash Builder CS5 and made available the Flex 4.1 SDK the other day. #AdobeCP
This release updates the Rapid Application Development environment to Flash Player 10.1, which opens the door for mobile Flex development. According to Adobe, some of the improvements include:
- The new Layout Mirroring feature for repurposing Flex UIs for deployment in right-to-left locales
- Native support for Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 in the Flex SDK
- Native support in Flash Builder 4.0.1 for building apps targeting SDK 4.1, AIR 2 or FP 10.1
- Many critical bugfixes and enhancement requests for both Flex SDK and Flash Builder
Adobe also released Hero, its latest iteration of the Flex SDK. Read about it here. It is intended to unify the development paths for desktop and mobile, and provides a single framework for developing Rich Internet Applications as well as desktop applications based on AIR2.
I am in the midst of creating a mobile application, and we have been complaining internally about how easy it would be if only Flex (Flash Builder) supported Flash Player 10.1. Targeting Android and Blackberry devices, we now can create one app using Flex and AIR rather than several different apps with different development kits. It is true that the player isn't ready on the devices, but by the time we're done with the App, Flash Player 10.1 should be widely deployed on Android and RIM as well as Palm and others.
