Style Guide & Best Practices for ActionScript 3 (AS3):
As previously mentioned, Flash CS5 will give Flash developers the ability to build and deploy native iPhone and iPod touch applications. With yesterday’s iPad announcement, the importance of designing for different screen sizes has become even more apparent. Android phones also have different screen sizes.
Adobe has just posted a tutorial regarding authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/authoring_for_multiple_screen_sizes.html
AS3 introduced a number of new DisplayObject classes, including Sprite and Shape. Unlike MovieClip, they do not have timelines of their own. Shape is a more lightweight type of object that has limited support for interactivity, and cannot have children.
This article illustrates the advantages of using Shape when timeline or interactivity are not needed:
At the Arduino web page/wiki, many resources can be found for combining Flash and Arduino, and for building physical computing projects with ActionScript.
FWA has picked wechoosethemoon.org as website of the year.
Wechoosethemoon.org is an interactive experience recreating the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in real time.
FLAR is an Augmented Reality (AR) toolkit for Flash:
http://www.libspark.org/wiki/saqoosha/FLARToolKit/en
Adobe has posted a nice AR tutorial here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/augmented_reality.html
Last week I visited the Decode new media art exhibition at V&A Museum, London. There was one piece by Joshua Davis on display, and it was mentioned that it was built using the HYPE framework (by Joshua Davis and Branden Hall):
HYPE is a creative coding framework built on top of ActionScript 3. A major goal of HYPE is to allow newcomers to Flash and ActionScript to creatively play and express themselves while they are learning how to program.
From: http://hype.joshuadavis.com/
The first version came out in the end of October 2009, and version 1.1 was just released.
HYPE @ GitHub: http://github.com/hype/hype
The course files can be downloaded (or viewed, in the case of .swf´s) from here:
http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2010_01/
All old course files can be found here:
The course is focused on the generative aspects of multimedia design and the authoring process, interface and interaction design and the control of media elements in interactive projects. Students will experiment with a broad range of media elements with an emphasis on controlling media behavior through code.
Mashable published an article regarding Flash Player working on Google’s Nexus One phone:
http://mashable.com/2010/01/06/flash-player-10-1-nexus-one/
It can be used to browse Flash-heavy sites and play online games, but it can also be used to deliver Flash-based ads.
There article includes a video from Adobe Developer Connection.
