I am sure you are thinking to yourself did he really just misspell “little” in the subject of this entry? Well the answer is no I didn’t. What I am speaking about is hardly little. I am officially announcing that I am working with the team at Litl in Boston.
For those that don’t know Litl is an intuitive webbook that runs Flash Player and is built around a community of apps “cards” for the user to download with ease.
I actually learned about Litl from Scott Janousek and other Flash enthusiasts about a year ago. Well a few months ago an offer was presented where I got the chance to work with Litl (freelance basis) and I am thrilled.
While I can’t talk about specific projects or concepts I can say its a freaking blast. The Litl team instantly made me feel at home and all of them are a thrill to work with. Stay tuned for more details and of course lots of great tutorials on Litl development over at Scriptplayground in the coming months.
Posting this is doing nothing more than amplifying the fact he has lost his freaking mind. He is speaking many false points (as mentioned many times) and just playing to the Apple community. Then again did we expect anything else from him? I have always liked Apples hardware and software but Mr. Jobs is basically turning all “fans” against his brand… great business idea guys.
My final thoughts on this… deal with the fact Flash is not going on the devices, but not because of Adobes position on the matter. Build your apps for Android and other mobile platforms or simply go play in the walled garden and shut up. Funny part is, i’m doing just that.
Soon after the whole iPhone blow to the Flash community was felt, the VP of Engineering for Android wrote an guest post on Adobe’s blog showing love for AIR on Android.
Google is happy to be partnering with Adobe to bring the full web, great applications, and developer choice to the Android platform. Our engineering teams have been working closely to bring both AIR and Flash Player to Google’s mobile operating system and devices. The Android platform is enjoying spectacular adoption, and we expect our work with Adobe will help that growth continue.
We also look forward to all the innovative content and applications created for Android and Flash. Join us at Google I/O in May to learn more about our work together with Adobe to open up the world of Flash on mobile devices.”
This couldn’t be more perfect for the Flash community. Not only will you be able to develop for the Android platform soon enough its pretty safe to assume Google is okay with it.
It will be interesting to see if this changed Apple’s views at all, but then again, does it really matter?
You may have heard some things regarding developing Android apps using Flash CS5 and AIR? Well I have been given the opportunity to be a part of the prerelease and have been given permission to show off one of my apps, Happy Peg.
Update: Since the video was released on Tuesday it has been picked up by a few really high profile sites, such as Lee Brimelows blog and even the Official Adobe AIR Team blog. It has also been spotted on other Flash and Android sites.
Early this year I posted about this app being developed using Flash CS5 and deployed on the iPhone App Store. Well with no code changes, about 2 hours to have the graphics tweaked (thanks to @pneal), I was able to port Happy Peg over to Android.
In the following video you will see it running on a Google Nexus One which was given to me by Adobe (special thanks to Michael Chou). The second device in the video is my iPhone 3GS. As you will see using Flash CS5 I was able to build and deploy Happy Peg to both devices with no coding changes.
Once the tools are out of private beta I will write a more in depth guide and a series of tutorials, stay tuned. These certainly are exciting times for Flash developers.
Recently I wrote a two part series on building a Blog in Flex using PHP for the server-side part. These articles are available in the Flash and Flex Developers Magazine in your local book stores. However I have been informed that part 2 is available for free download (newsletter registration required). Earlier in the year part 1 was available for free, so it may still be on their site, let me know if you find it.
Also be on the watch for a new article in an upcoming issue that teaches you how to build a cool Flash application using Flickr and Yahoo! Pipes. Not exactly sure which issue it will be in, but keep an eye on my twitter page for more details when they are available.
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