Media+Code

SoundCloud â€“ 1st anniversary and ActionScript 3 API

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Web audio hosting and streaming service SoundCloud have many good news on their anniversary:

Cheaper premium accounts
New players
iPhone app

and much more:

http://soundcloud.com/pages/newsletters/2009/11/10/anniversary

I would also highlight the recent ActionScript 3 API wrapper:

http://blog.soundcloud.com/2009/09/18/as3-wrapper/

This library enables your Flash or Flex projects to communicate with SoundCloudâ€™s API to upload tracks, create playlists, edit user info and so on. It handles all the complicated OAuth authentication in the background so you only have to deal with a few simple methods.

SoundCloud have also annouced today a Widget Javascript API.

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Adobe AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 Beta Software Now Available

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Nuno Correia

From EON:

Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent browser runtime release of the Open Screen Project that will enable uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and high definition (HD) videos across the desktop and devices. (…)

Additionally, Flash Player 10.1 now leverages hardware decoding of H.264 video on Windows PCs, netbooks and mobile devices where available, to conserve battery life and deliver an exceptional video playback experience.

Adobe AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 also bring innovations and optimizations from mobile devices to the desktop. For example, designers and developers can now create entirely new types of applications that use multi-touch points and gestures on touch screen devices. Instead of using a mouse, users touch the screen to interact with content and applications.

From Webmonkey:

Support for local microphone access â€” This may well be the best news for developers since it paves the way to create online audio editors capable of the same sort of sophistication weâ€™ve seen with online image editing apps.

The pre-release beta versions of Adobe AIR 2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 are available immediately as free downloads from Adobe Labs

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TUIO (tangible multitouch UI)

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Nuno Correia

TUIO is “an open framework that defines a common protocol and API for tangible multitouch surfaces”. It is based in OSC (Open Sound Control), and used in Reactable-based solutions (http://www.reactable.com). The developers behind TUIO include Music Technology Group (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) researchers but also external developers, as TUIO is an open framework. Some of these developers have implemented a TUIO/Flash library, allowing to better integrate Flash/AS3 with tangible multitouch surfaces (to allows to transmit OSC messages more efficiently).

Link to TUIO
http://www.tuio.org/
Link to TUIO for Flash:
http://bubblebird.at/tuioflash/

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Adobe Flex 3 for free (education)

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Nuno Correia

For Flash platform developers: Adobe Flex Builder 3 is now available for free, to students/faculty/staff. A great opportunity to develop ActionScript 3 applications for free, or to expand your Flash toolkit.

https://freeriatools.adobe.com/flex/

(via Matti Luhtala)

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Flash CS5 announced

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Nuno Correia

At Adobe MAX 2009, Flash CS5 was announced. The iPhone apps publisher is the main news, but other features include:

New text capabilities via the Text Layout Framework (TLF) â€” Get unprecedented text control and creativity with projects created in Flash. Advanced styling and layout, including right to left text, columns, and threaded text blocks, let you work with text in Flash like never before.
XML based FLA files â€” Manage and modify project assets using source control systems and enable teams to easily collaborate on files.
Code Snippets panel â€” Choose prebuilt code that can be injected into projects to increase interactivity and also reduce the ActionScript 3 learning curve.
Flash Builderâ„¢ integration â€” Use Adobe Flash Builder software as your ActionScript editor within projects in Flash.
Improved ActionScript editor â€” Improve productivity with custom class code hinting and completion.

From: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/

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Flash apps for iPhone coming up soon

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Nuno Correia

Flash CS5 will allow the development of iPhone apps, as Adobe demonstrates:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

TechCrunch report on Adobe MAX event, where this was announced:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/adobe-shows-off-flash-apps-for-iphone-yes-you-read-that-right/

It’s not a Flash plug-in for iPhone, but a very nice workaround…

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Flash (not Flash Lite) on mobile phones in 2010

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Nuno Correia

BBC reports on widespread adoption of Flash 10.1 on smart phones by 2010 (with the notable exception of iPhone):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8287239.stm

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Accessing the library dynamically

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Nuno Correia

For an upcoming Video Jack project, I’ve been trying out accessing random elements from the library – without knowing previously if they were present there or not.

I found some tutorials/references on the subject.

To find if a class exists:

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=334653

To access a class dynamically:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/utils/package.html#getDefinitionByName%28%29

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