To all Attendes of 360Flex Europe

Hi All,

360 Flex Europe is behind the corner, 10 days more or less and… it starts!
So to all attendes of this big Flex event I made the mobile application with Flash Lite 2.0, you can find the same things of Atlanta version but with another graphics and the final 360Flex schedule!

I hope to see you at the event.
Enjoy

UPDATE
Actionscript.it, italian Adobe UG, organize Birds of father event during 360Flex on Monday 7 from 6PM to 9PM, where attendes could ask any questions about 360Flex sessions, Flex and AIR, so please take a look at event page (it’s in italian) and register to the event!

PS: I’m making the sys files in next few days! Stay tuned!

UPDATE II
Thank you again to chall3ng3r to make sis files!  Download file for Symbian 2nd edition and for Symbian 3rd edition

See you next week at 360Flex Europe guys!

Road to 360 Flex Europe

1 month more or less and in Milan I’ll partecipate at 360|Flex the most important Flex event in Italy (maybe in Europe?).
In the last schedule I saw my seminar is in the first day (7 April), now I’m waiting the final one.
I’ll talk about BitmapData class, I’m making 3 samples and a real case history made with Flex and AIR to manipulate images.

There will be lots of important and great developer that are coming from all over the world, I love this event, it will be amazing!
You can find a lots of Adobe employees, Adobe partners, Adobe UG and so on, an event that you can’t lost.

So see you at 360 Flex guys!

Silverlight on mobile vs (maybe) AIR mobile ?

I don’t write on Silverlight mobile version yet because I was waiting more news from MIX and I also talked with Italian Microsoft guys and others developers.

So, Silverlight will be out the second quarter of 2008 but with 1.0 version and if you take a look at desktop version you know that isn’t so powerful!
In the end of 2008 we could see 2.0 Beta version and finally in the second quarter of 2009 Silverlight 2 will install in mobile devices.
The last version in so interesting, they add a very good zoom functionality and they add .net framework built in the player.
Mobile version will be use in IE browser for PDA so probably the same way on Nokia, so the first question is:
Can I interact OS on Nokia and PDA to save and manipulate data like desktop version or I’ll have some security issues?

Another thing that I see is a good video look and feel, I’d like to know what kind of video files I could play on own mobile player.
It could be interesting how Microsoft decide to update own mobile player on devices…

I think that Adobe must start to take new way to deliver and help own developers to create mobile contents, we have a cool platform but with a lots limits and also there is a bad interaction with OS.

Sincerly I hope that Adobe could develop the AIR mobile version because with this technology we could take new market quotes and opportunities.
AIR is the new powerfull technology that helps developers and desginers to deliver own contents with a new interaction way, if you can create an online app with Flex and then porting it on desktop and finally porting it on own mobile device… that it could be COOOOOL!

My 2 cents

Feel free to comment and share your view!

360 Flex Atlanta mobile application

Today 360|Flex starts in Atlanta, if you are an attendee or a speaker I make the “official” 360 flex mobile application in Flash Lite 2.

In this app you can find 3 sections:

  • speakers
  • schedule
  • twitter

In the last section (twitter) you can read last post in your twitter and write one in your account.
I use SWX API to create this mesh up, very cool API made by Aral Balkan (thank you man!) that allow to make mesh up of twitter, flickr and so on.

Download zip file and put swf and XML files in your Flash Lite 2 phone….Enjoy!

Obviusly you can have one for Europe event… stay tuned!

UPDATE:

I must say THANK YOU to chall3ng3r that made for me .sis files with SWF2GO, his software that allow to create file for S60 phones.
Thank you man!
Now you can download also .sis file for S60 3rd edition and 2nd edition

Flex 3 and AIR 1.0, future is NOW

Sign this date in your calendar, today guys are out Flex 3 and AIR 1.0

In the last years Adobe made an amazing work on those technologies and it could be a big pleasure start work on them.
Lots of us use Flex  3 since Beta in labs and we love it, because finally we have a true development software and with last release we increase the power of this technolgy.

Air, it’s my favourite software, I love it, it’s so simple and so powerful and has a lots of functionalities that help us to create fantastic and complex desktop application.

The first thing that I do this morning is watching Adobe.com and I suggest to take a look at AIR page and Flex page, you can find a lots of interesting things!

Today Adobe makes the history.

onAIR tour in Europe

Finally it’s coming!!!

OnAIR tour is coming in Europe, 12 dates from March to June in all Europe… that’s wonderful!
Registrations are open so choose your city and register yourself, I’ll go to Italian date (13 June) in Milan with a lots of Italian developers and designers.

If you come in Milan, please send me an email so we could meet to have dinner togheter!

Flash Home, new mobile solution

Adobe launches a new service at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona for mobile operators and OEM that allow to create custom interface to deliver informations.

This service is ONLY for those categories and for designers and developers are so interesting because we have a new way to deliver flash lite contents.
In fact we could use Flash CS3 and Device Central to create and test our flash lite contents for Flash Home or Flash Cast.

So now we are waiting which operators are available to deliver Flash Lite content with Flash Home, in particular in Europe where there aren’t a lots of operators that believe in Flash Lite (Flash Cast or Flash Home), I hope this situation will change with Flash home coming.

If you want read more about 3GMS news and Flash Home, take a look at Adobe Flash Home page.

Little tricks to rotate images in Flex

My last project is an Image manipulator made with Flex and AIR, so I guide a user to manipulate (rotation, resizing…) an image, choosen from own computer, with a wizard.
When I was at Rotation step, I said: “and now?!”.

Infact if you use rotation property of an Image component it rotates in 0,0, but there is a little trick to rotate an image or component with origin in the middle.
If you use Rotate effect, you can decide which is the origin point, so if you write:

var rotEff:Rotate = new Rotate();

//img is the ID of Image component in MXML file
rotEff.target = img;

rotEff.originX = img.width/2;
rotEff.originY = img.height/2;

rotEff.duration = 1500;
rotEff.angleFrom = img.rotation;
rotEff.angleTo = img.rotation + 90;

rotEff.play();

With those script you can rotate an image or component in the middle.
That’s a little trick!
Enjoy

Now we know… Singularity is…

… is a conference! It is the BIGGEST web conference of the world!

Over 100 speakers from all over the world we will suggest, inspire, teach and…
I’ve no word to describe this fantastic idea, one of the most important thing that I must do every January is choose what conference follow in the year… and Singularity I MUST FOLLOW from my office or home or everywhere and I love it!

Singularity is a 3 days web sessions that will start in the end of October, for now we haven’t a lots of informations but if you want to learn more, take a look at singularity site!

Aral you are a geek! 

Zinc 3 is out!

I’ve just seen new MDM site where you can find the new release of Zinc!

I download it and I want to try in next few weeks, I hope to great new features and new performance.

You can find more information in Zinc page, take a look and stay tuned to read new Zinc 3 experiences!