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Hey! Another free AIR app! This time that ain't no side project I made on my free time for some obscure users, but rather a big thingy for a big company. Namely Fotolia.
I did all of the coding part (ActionScript 3, Flex 4) and Steaw is responsible for the UI and all graphics. › Continue reading...
This is how the Adobe AIR Challenge (that took place in Paris this week-end) looked like: lots of young and fresh folks ready to spend 24 hours building an AIR app.
Pretty happy the 3 apps I supported all made it to the podium and can't wait to play with Digitas' Flickr app! Nice job, fellows.
See pics at Flickr, vids at Vimeo and wait for the apps: they should be out really soon.
The Adobe AIR Challenge will begin tomorrow at 3pm in Paris, I happen to be a part of the jury so I will have to review and judge all of the 15 apps made by the 15 2-member teams.
If you're interested follow the #air24h hashtag on Twitter and watch the event (there will be a live broadcast online)! A Flickr group also has been set up.
Make sure to also download and test the apps where they're done!
Warning: techy post for once; sorry about that regular folks. Looking for something nicer than cryptic bug fixes? Have a look around here!
So here we go: I'm working on a big multi-lingual AIR app within Flash Builder and just received the locale files from my client today (made with Lupo).
Couldn't wait to see what it looked like in Japanese and in all other languages supported (13, to be precise) so I copied the "locale" folder into my project, updated the "Additional compiler arguments" with "-locale de_DE en_GB en_US es_ES fr_FR it_IT ja_JP pl_PL pt_BR pt_PT ru_RU tr_TR zh_CN -allow-source-path-overlap=true -source-path=locale/{locale}" and refreshed the project. Which broke, saying "unable to open '[blablah]\frameworks\locale\en_GB'". › Continue reading...
Meet Dok, my latest and nicest AIR app to this day!
Always looking for help when writing AS3 for Flash, Flex and AIR? Think Adobe's reference is rich but browsing it sucks? Well, I did too. So I wrote this little thingy that loads, parses and caches help pages and then presents them in a slick and quick UI!
This post is a techy one, so if you don't write AIR apps or if you think this wouldn't be enough to show off during coffee break I recommend something funnier. › Continue reading...
During the last couple of months I've been working on a free AIR app for a French community-based site called Weecast. Its purpose is to allow users to submit and/or buy screencasts about your favorite apps and languages (mostly Adobe's and Microsoft's, but also 3D ones', OS's and more).
Introducing the Weecast Player!
The app allows you to browse your videos, watch them (4 view modes), search for more, drop comments and stars... I think that's called an RIA, right? There's also an offline mode, so you can access all your stuff anytime. › Continue reading...
I was talking about it, here it is!
This class will come in handy every time you work with synchronous SQLite databases in an AIR project. It's a real-world implementation of the Dynam.ize utility I presented earlier... I will show you an example of how to work with it, with simple sub-classes. Let's go! › Continue reading...
I wanted to try Flex 4 with a "real life" project so I wrote this little thing. Rough draft.
The app will allow you to monitor files changes: select a text file and you'll be prompted when it's updated. Basic. By the way, did I say "rough draft" before?
Everything in it is OpenSource, from the Illustrator files to the MXML and CSS stuff, so play with it! For those who only want the .air, here it is. › Continue reading...
Introducing Boks, my latest and most ambitious AIR app to this day!
Do you design web pages? Do you write HTML and CSS? Ever heard about the Grid System and Blueprint CSS? Thought it was a pain to implement? Think again, fool! › Continue reading...
