July 20th, 2010
So you want to do develop for Android. Let’s go through how to set up the SDK and such real fast.
1. DL and set up the Android SDK as described here. This doesn’t take too long. Just make sure you follow all the steps.
2. Set up your PATH. On Mac, open Terminal (make sure you’re in your parent directory, eg ~) and type open -e .bash_profile. TextEdit will open with blank .bash_profile doc.
When TextEdit opens add export PATH=${PATH}:/Your/AndroidSDK/dirs/here/
Save and quit.
This information will come in handy when “other” SDKs become publicly available. You can just add the other SDK’s directories here.
3. Now you have full access to Android SDK. So if you ever need to use it just type adb … in Terminal.
4. Test this. Plug in your device and in Terminal type: adb devices. The Daemon should run and your devices plugged in should show up.
Now you can install apps. For instance, let’s say we want to install myfungame.apk that sits on your desktop on to your device.
1. With the device plugged in. Open Terminal and cd to your desktop. Here’s what mine looks like:
2. Type in adb install myfungame.apk
3. Terminal will run and when “Success” appears, your app is finished installing. You can open it on your phone now.
As a note, I put my Android SDK in /HD/Developer/ so that it is central and quick to get to. That “other” SDK is in (added to) the development SDK.
Be sure to read the documentation on the Android Dev site for more of what you can do with the SDK. Or in Terminal type adb help.
Enjoy!
July 12th, 2010
It appears the new Flash Platform (AIR 2 and Flash Player, CS5 style) Logos are terribly hard to find in vector, so I made them.
You can grab them here in Illustrator format.
Enjoy and Happy Flashing!
July 9th, 2010
This is awesome. The 360|Flex speaker line up and schedule is up and on it you’ll find my name!
Not just once, but twice.
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June 30th, 2010
First of all, if you have not gotten ready for Flash Player 10.1 by integrating the playerglobal.swc into either Flash CS4 or CS5 you can read up on how to do that here.
Now, after many questions, I thought I would dive into why using Test Movie (cmd(cntrl)+enter) from Flash CS4 always gives “ReferenceError: Error #1065″ when trying to use a 10.1 specific function. This happens even after updating the Stand Alone players.
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June 26th, 2010
This past week (6/19 – 6/24) I was on a much needed vacation in Las Vegas. Since the Las Vegas Flash User Group had rescheduled their June meet-up to be within the time I was visiting, I decided to tag along with still recently appointed Adobe Platform Evangelist, Renaun Erickson, who was giving a presentation.
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June 11th, 2010
Preface: I have decided to use the term “Markup” to mean HTML5 and to continue to do so here on out. Markup referring to HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP and other elements used to create web and desktop applications, games and sites. The term “HTML5″ is too much of a buzzword that seems to be misunderstood by many, including some of those in our communities. I also use the term “Flash” to refer to the entire Flash Platform including Flash Player and AIR.
For the past several months there has been much discussion and debate over web technologies. Some claim Markup is a “Flash Killer.” Some say that Flash shouldn’t be on the web any longer. While others say Flash isn’t going anywhere. At times it feels like an all out war.
Let me make one thing very clear: There is no war. Continue reading »
June 9th, 2010
The Freedom of Choice. Reclaimed.
There’s more than one smart phone on the market. And these others will soon bring the full internet to your hand. Why wait to get a device that only shows a portion of the web? Why not go get one that will let you browse the entire web?
June 7th, 2010
Like the Flash Showcase Page? Have some examples you would like to add? Why not post a version of your own?
Download the source files.
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June 6th, 2010
I decided to make a response to a recent set of “demos” of HTML5 but for The Flash Platform.
You can check it out here.
May 21st, 2010
Yesterday TweetDeck updated to v0.34.1 with several nice, new features included. Among my favorite new features are: Scheduled Tweets, Translate This Tweet, and Recording Video from Webcam.
Yet, even with a bunch of new buttons to push (some old ones have been moved around, and to my dismay) there doesn’t seem to be much improved in the most important part of TweetDeck: The Tweet itself. Continue reading »
