With Flash Professional CS5, we can now build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store. A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. At MAX 2009, Adobe showed a number of applications and games for iPhone that have been built using a prerelease version of Flash Professional CS5. The tooling update allows developers to use Flash technologies to develop content for iPhone and iPod touch. Developers can write new code or reuse existing web content to build applications for iPhone. Because the source code and assets are reusable across the Flash Platform runtimes,—Adobe AIR and Flash Player—it also gives developers a way to more easily target other mobile and desktop environments.
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HTC will be the first mobile company to bring Adobe Flash Player Lite to the Android Open Source Mobile platform with the release of its new Hero mobile device. The HTC Hero phone will come with Flash Lite 3.1, which means it’ll be able to cope with anything written with ActionScript 2.0 and thus be very well equipped for interactive content as well as streaming online video and audio. Checkout a demo video here:-
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/htchero.html
Flash And Flex Developer Magazine
FFDMag.com has come up with the new ‘Flash And Flex Developer’ Magazine.
Rainbow Live Flash CMS
Rainbow Live combines the ease of Visual XML editing with the power of a Live Content Management System (CMS), making it easy to design data in whatever structure you want, and then edit it online without having to re-upload new XML files. It’s been designed specifically to provide Flash website developers with an easy way to edit and build XML based sites. Rainbow Live has been developed to answer the needs of Flash developers who use XML as a data source. Checkout a demo and more details at:- http://www.codeandvisual.com/rainbow
Rainbow Live removes the need to rely on a backend developer to build and maintain a database. Rainbow Live saves time and money as the process of setting up XML structures is familiar to many Flash developers and is made even more intuitive with Rainbow Live’s node-based approach.
Rainbow Live provides you with a User log-in to allow data to be managed by the client long after your involvement is through. Rainbow Live provides the perfect lightweight solution when you don’t need all the bells and whistles (and overhead) of a complete CMS system.
With each new Flash Player comes new possibilities and as usual, it’s left to the Flash community to figure out what those are. Here is a short version highlighting only the new features available and what they probably offer.
3D effects New
Create more intuitive, engaging interfaces using built-in support for 3D effects. Get started quickly without being a 3D master by designing in 2D and easily transforming and animating in 3D. Fast, extremely lightweight, and simple-to-use APIs, along with 3D tools in Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional software, make motion that was previously accessible only to expert users via ActionScript® language or custom third-party libraries available to everyone.
