Android
Celebrating Java 7 with 7 Reasons to Attend OSCON Java
OSCON Java is a new conference that I am helping to kick off as co-chair this July. While there are plenty of conferences out there that you could attend, I am confident that this is the one you won't want to miss.
Flash Capability Reporter Sample and Video
The folks at Marakana did a great job hosting the recent Flash Android event, as well as recording and publishing the talk. As a fellow user group leader, I can appreciate the hard work that went into preparing the video, including some fine editing and splicing by Max Walker (the presentation was not as flawless as he made it look!)
Beginning Flash at the SF Android UG
One of my coauthors on the upcoming Pro Android Flash title, Oswald Campesato, and I had the pleasure of speaking to the San Francisco Android User Group. It was a packed audience with around 150 eager Android developers who wanted to hear how they could use Flash on their devices (they were a great audience). Here is what some of them had to say about the meetup: Alec Dara-Abrams Stephen and Oswald gave a very good over view of Flash development on Android. Like a number of other SF Android speakers, packing the hour or so with the right level of technical detail. Thanks to them also for being responsive to audience questions - not so easy I'd guess with 100+ people out there past the lighting for the video. I'm looking forward to following Stephen's blog. Drew Dara-Abrams Stephen and Oswald gave a good overview of the current state of Flash on Android. Unfortunately the Adobe tools and their book won't be out until spring, but I appreciated all the working examples of code that Stephen demonstrated. I'll definitely look for their book when it comes out. Francisco Carretero Looks like an incredibly useful topic for android for giving android that push to the next level. As I promised folks in the audience, here is a copy of the full presentation. Lots of this information was added very recently from different chapters in our book, so it is definitely the latest and greatest source of information on what you can do with Flash on mobile devices:
Visage Android - Cleaner APIs, Cleaner UIs
I have been busily working away at getting Visage ready for developing Android applications. It is a great fit, because Android converts regular Java class files into its special class format, and the Visage compiler happens to generate Java class files. Also, Android is desperately in need of some TLC on their APIs (more on this in a future blog).
Flash On... Meetup Premiere
I am pleased to announce the Flash On... user group that I am kicking off together with Keith Sutton, Oswald Campesato, and Justin Webb. The focus is Flash on consumer devices from Mobile to Tablet to TV.
Flash Android Development at Code Camp
I haven't talked much about Flash technology on my blog, but we use quite a bit of Flash/Flex for developing enterprise apps at my day job. With the Open Screen Project from Adobe making Flash available on mobile and embedded devices, Flash has become a viable cross-platform toolkit fulfilling a lot of what I hoped JavaFX Mobile would become.