Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK and Flash Builder 4.5

Hi Folks,

It seems Adobe is ready to release of Flex SDK  and Flash Builder, both with new version 4.5    That sounds really good, isn’t it…!!!

On Adobe Flex Opensource web site release of Flex 4.5 SDK  is mentioned in May 2011.

 

Some key Highlights:-

• Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework.

• Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities.

• Large-Application Development: Support developers building large applications by improving fundamental pieces of the Flex infrastructure.

Seems, Adobe is expecting to change the Game with this version.

For more details click here.

 

I am eagerly waiting for May- 2011 along with Adobe, too.  

 

Enjoy Flexing

~  Mayur Rami

Flex/Flash series of online seminars

Wow…    Friends / Folks,

Adobe is going to start an online series of  ” Flex/Flash Online Seminars ” – during the week of June 7 to June 11, 2010.

specially for India,   UK and   Europe (Central/Western and Eastern Europe)  Developers as well Designers, too.

Timings of Most of sessions will be (below timings are in IST – Indian Standard Time). . . . .

1)   Afternoon session  -   4:30 p.m.  to  5:30  p.m.

16:30 – 17:30 India (Mumbai, New Delhi)

2)   Evening session  -   7:30 p.m.  to  8:30  p.m.

19:30 – 20:30 India (Mumbai, New Delhi)

Sessions would be on :

1. Erase the Designer to Developer gap: Adding interactions to your design
2. Connecting your design to PHP services
3. Connecting a web application to a J2EE backend using Flash Builder 4
4. Working with Flash CS5 components in your Flash Builder 4 project
5. Going multi-user with P2P in Flash Player 10.1
6. Developing multi-user applications with LiveCycle services
7. Bringing web Applications to the desktop with AIR 2.0
8. Code once and run on multiple mobile devices
9. EXTRA SESSION: Rapidly build, deploy, and maintain Internet apps with ColdFusion

E-Seminar series will be covering variety of  Adobe Technologies like

• Adobe® Flash® Platform,
• Adobe® Flex®,
• Adobe® Flash® Builder™,
• Adobe® AIR®,
• Adobe® Flash® Player
• Adobe® Creative Suite® 5    etc.
• along with  how to use / integrate with other technologies like ColdFusion, php and J2EE

for  more details and registration visit.

Hurry Up…  Register your self and let me know.

We need to create a strong skill full community.

If any issues while registration let me know, I may help you to register.

Enjoy Flexing   

~ Mayur Rami

Adobe Certified Expert   –    Flex 3 with AIR

Flash Builder 4 is released

Adobe has also released Flash Builder ( formerly known as Flex Builder) on 21st March 2010 along with Flex 4 (beta code name Gumbo) .

You can see at  Flash Builder 4.

Flash Builder has two diff. editions.

1. Flash Builder 4 Premium Edition

2. Flash Builder 4 Standard Edition

Obvious Premium Edition is costlier than Standard Edition. Flash Builder 4 Premium Edition costs US$699 and Standard Edition costs US$249.

For more details visit Flash Builder 4 purchase options.

Mayur Rami  

~ Enjoy Flexing

Flex 4 : Final Release

Folks,

Flex 4 has arrived finally.

Adobe has officially released flex 4.

You can also check  What is new in Flex 4 ?

Adobe Evangelist are saying they have mainly worked on the new skinning model which separates the logic of a component from the look and feel is going to let developers and designers create some very complex and unique user interfaces.

Adobe Engineers have improved, the states model along with a much more efficient transitions/effects engine mean that it will be easier to create multi-screen applications with meaningful rich transitions, also.  And lot more things.

Go check it – Flex 4

Mayur Rami

~ Enjoy Flexing with Flex 

Mayur : Flex 3 and AIR certified

Folks,

I want to share my happiness with you.

I have passed Adobe Flex 3 ACE certification.

I really thankful to Adobe Flex and Flash agile community for this, especially to FlexCoders (Yahoo group) and Flex India Community ( Google group dedicated to Flex and related technologies).

I am really delighted on owning  Adobe® Flex 3 with AIR ACE

Mayur Rami

~ Enjoy Flexing  

Squiggly – Spell Check in Flex 3

Adobe labs has put a Spell Check library – SQUIGGLY – for Actionscript 3 and Flex 3.

To see Demo

to see its details – Squiggly

Enjoy Flexing . . . 

Mayur Rami

AIR 1.5, CoCoMo, Flash Player 10 64 bit, Flex 4 Gumbo, Flash Catalyst

Folks,

Go and check Adobe MAX and Adobe’s official web sites as they have so many announcements on .

On first day, 17th Nov 2008, of MAX – Adobe announced about some new Products and Technologies.

• AIR 1.5

• CoCoMo

• Flash Player 10 64 bit Alpha

• Flex 4 Gumbo

• Flash Catalyst

Flash Player 10 Released

Welcome to Flash Player 10 – Adobe recently on 15- October -2008, released Flash Player 10

Flash Player 10, is with around 15 NEW features and 8 Enhanced features.

New Features,

1. 3D effects
2. Custom filters and effects
3. Advanced text support
4. Color management
5. Speex audio codec
6. Dynamic Streaming
7. Real Time Media Flow Protocol
8. Dynamic sound generation
9. Text engine
10. Pixel Bender
11. Vector data type
12. File upload and download APIs
13. Webcam/microphone
14. Public bugbase
15. Ubuntu suppor

Enhanced Features,

1. Large bitmap support
2. Full-screen playback
3. Drawing API
   
4. Context menu
5. Hardware acceleration
6. Anti-aliasing engine (Saffron 3.1)
7. Read/write clipboard access
8. WMODE
   

You can get more details on each form Flash Player 10 New Features.

With the release of Flash Player 10, some people are saying the end of era – Flash Player 9.

But I don’t think so, it will be so, soon. The way – with Jet speed – FP9 got its presence in computers world wide, I don’t think so same way FP10 will also get its presence.

What do you think ? Let me know about your comments.

Anyway, I really like Flash Player 9 – Start of AVM2 – era.

Good bye Flash Player 9

Welcome Flash Player 10

It seems Flash platform is Flexing . . .

Flex : Cotainer class – backgroundAttachment

Note : Same post as previous one.

Folks,

Today, I come to know another one Gem of Flex.

A need arise in my one project, while my development,

I have to create same functionality as done in HTML.

i.e. HTML – Body tag we provide backGround image with size ” fixed “.

<body style=”background:url(images/background.png) fixed”>

So, when ever we scroll the contents,

the background image will not be scrolling, only contents will scroll.

Same type functionality, I need to achieve in flex.

So I dwell deep into Flex frame work and got one more Pearl…!!! Oh, that’s consistent.

That’s why I like flex more than oteher tech.

This time, the pearl is, style property : backgroundAttachment

The ” backgroundAttachment ” is of mx.core.Container class style property.

Flex Video Tutorials – Adding visual appeal

In Flex Video Series – Flex In Week

Part 4 has been added as Day 4: Adding visual appeal

I covers some good topics too,

• Creating Constraint-based Layouts
• Applying Styles to MXML Components
• Skining Components with Adobe CS3
• Drawing Shapes with the Drawing API
• Skinning Components Programmatically

Enjoy Flexing . . .

Mayur Rami