To me, this is something to really get excited about – not just because of what the Flash Platform is going to bring to tablet devices, but because of what the future of media publishing looks like. I would read more of a magazine and engage more with advertising content if I could get it like this.
(PS Is anyone else having issues with the video starting to play or is it just me? If you experience problems (I’m in Firefox), then I also got the video to work on the XD Blog)
There’s been a flurry of activity on the Adobe Developer Connection site recently due to this being the silly season for corporate announcements around mobile. Take a look at these articles and whitepapers to understand where the Flash Platform has moved to and how you will need to evolve as a Flash developer to make the most of this brave new(ish) world.
Thibault Imbert from Adobe has also authored a substantial document titled “Optimizing Mobile Content for the Adobe Flash Platform” which you can download as PDF here.
It’s great to see more and more resources being developed to assist Flash developers and designers make the jump to producing work for the small screen, but I’m mindful of the common misnomer that continues to be spoken about when looking at a “write-once, deploy-everywhere” approach to Flash development. Particularly now that Adobe AIR has been announced for devices, and the reality of a technical solution for dropping a single AIR file onto multiple devices, it’s vitally important to take a step back and remember that the user experiences for these multiple devices are very different. Read More
This had to have been one of the more coordinated releases that I’ve noticed through the blogosphere/Twitterverse – it seems just about everyone on the Platform team at Adobe as either blogged or tweeted about Adobe’s announcement today regarding the new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for the Facebook Platform API … and did so very quickly.
Either this means that a lot of these guys had some spare time today, or that they’re all very excited about the announcement. Facebook is arguably one of the biggest social media sites in the world (in case you’ve just crawled out from under that rock!) and so Facebook officially supporting an ActionScript library in collaboration with Adobe is a pretty big deal.
I’ve tried a few Flash-things in Facebook before and it’s been a little tricky. And while I haven’t cracked open this new Library yet, from all accounts this has made the jump for Flash devs into the world of Facebook apps a whole lot easier. In particular, I see this being a major announcement for the many game studios who are investing heavily into social casual games for Facebook – and many of them are using Flash to do it.
Danny Dura from the Platform Evangelism team has done a quick intro video you can check out, which is is the newly created Facebook DevNet section on Adobe.com.
I’ve been in the tail end of a couple of projects recently and have just realised how long it’s been since I last blogged! My Toy Tragic site is also in need of some new content, but that one will have to wait for the time being. Thought I would just link to some recent stuff that’s been in Flash Lite recently and that’s been making its way through the blogosphere …
I also have some some news to share shortly about a new Flash mobile developer community project I’m going to be working on … stay tuned 
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