Great New Extension for Flash Builder 4

Flash Builder 4 brings with it a ton of new features for Flash and Flex developers. The new data features, Flex 4 support, and tight integration with Flash Professional makes it a very exciting release. The one area where things could be improved is the ActionScript editing features. Our friends over at FDT have been putting in a host of great new features that I only wish were in Flash Builder.

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Can Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) Compete With Mozilla Firefox?

While we were discussing Will HTML5 + CSS + JavaScript Really Be Flash And Silverlight Killer , Microsoft launches new version of internet explorer 9 after testing of Beta 8(11/23/09 – the IE9 demo from PDC available), Internet explorer 9 is now available online for free download from microsoft.com. IE9 has many advantages features and high speed, Microsoft attempt to combat firefox. Can IE9 do? Let’s see following details first.

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HP Slate Running Flash Player and AIR

Adobe and HP have just launched a new video showing Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 running on the slick, new HP Slate tablet device. The video shows several types of content and is a great preview of what is capable when a device fully supports the web. Lee

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How is the 360|Flex conference going?

If you are at the 360|Flex conference this week, please let me know how it was by answering this simple poll. Click here to vote! Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Facebook

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F3 v. F4: Using ViewStack, TabNavigator and Accordion

You have probably used mx:ViewStack, mx:TabNavigator and mx:Accordion somewhere in your Flex development efforts over the last 5+ years and had code that looks like this: 1234567891011121314151617181920212223<mx:TabNavigator width="400" height="200" horizontalCenter="0" y="15">     <mx:VBox label="Tab 1">         <mx:Label text="This is tab 1"/>     </mx:VBox>     <mx:VBox label="Tab 2">         <mx:Label text="This is tab

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Adobe AIR Will Enable Innovation on Tablet Devices

There was so much exciting news to come out of Barcelona this week if you are a fan of mobile devices. We saw Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR both announced on the Android platform. As I’m sure you have seen from the demos, not only are these technologies running on Android, but they are running extremely well. There was also the announcement that Flash Player and AIR will be coming to Blackberry devices as well.

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iPhone Flash: What did @kevinlynch just say?

What did he just say? Back in October when I first discussed the new CS5 compile to iPhone workflow from Adobe, in my post titled “Apple’s greed to only help Adobe with Mobile Flash Player” I mentioned the following with the important part in bold: “Adobe had to create a way to allow for applications built on

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The unofficial Nexus One Flash demos

There were some great polished keynotes at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona this week. While they did an awesome job showing off Flash Player 10.1 in the mobile browser, I put together a low-budget video showing some of the stuff that wasn’t shown. Enjoy! Lee

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Adobe AIR on Mobile – here’s the most important sentence!

Unless you have been offline all day today, you have heard that Adobe has made an official announcement on the time lines of Flash Player 10.1 mobile as Adobe AIR mobile. Here is the official press release. Since the announcement, a bit more information has come out and I have narrowed all of the information down

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F3 v. F4 Tile v TileGroup

Here are two applications that perform the same task. They layout 9 custom button components in a grid. One is Flex 3 and the other is Flex 4. Main Application (Flex 3): 123456789101112131415161718<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"                 layout="absolute"                   xmlns:local="*">        

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