Post by Aron / January 29th, 2010
Undoubtedly Flash put the web to another level. With Flash there was finally the ability to create content with user experience not dictated by a markup language (HTML) but freeform, whatever the user liked, whatever the best usability was, whatever the IA / designer / programmer thought was best. This made the web big, this made Flash big.
However, times have changed. Flash is no longer the only technology to achieve all this. HTML5 can do some of it, JavaScript can do some of it, other proprietary platform like the iPhone and iPad can do some of it.
We all agree that Apple keeping back a hole bunch of cool content from the users by not putting Flash on their devices. On one hand they are doing it for “evil” business interests. They want to push their own gaming platform and don’t want all online Flash games on the web to be playable on their device. On the other hand they have good reasons: The iPhone was not powerful enough to render and display demanding Flash content.
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Post by Phil / December 24th, 2009
Just before christmas – as a little gift under the tree – we released the new version of our AS3 open-source VideoPlayer.
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Post by Phil / December 22nd, 2009
Hi there … it’s been a bit quiet here over the last month, but only because we had loads of work to do before christmas.
I just wanted to let you know, that we built our first real life Flash/Indexhibit website a few weeks ago – for a good friend who’s a photographer.
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Post by Phil / October 23rd, 2009
Finally we finished the “super simple” Flash example of our frontend for Indexhibit.
You can read more about the whole Flash / Indexhibit story here, here and here or just grab the new files and try for yourself …
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Post by Phil / October 21st, 2009
Finally I had the time to add the missing features to our Spellchecker class v01.
You can now right-click the misspelled words and get suggestions from the loaded dictionary in the context-menu.
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Post by Phil / October 14th, 2009
Hi there.
After some inquiries we finally added the possibility to customize the Apdev VideoPlayer – only changing colors at this time but it’s a first step in the right direction …
You can now change any color of any object/control that is used within the videoplayer – but check the ApdevVideoPlayerDefaultStyle.as for all the attributes that can be manipulated. And it’s up to you whether you change the attributes using pure ActionScript (1) or our html-version of the videoplayer and pass the values in via flashvars (2). With approach 2 you don’t even have to know ActionScript or open a flash-file – just embed the videoplayer-swf into your website and customize it via flashvars.
For further information, see the upcoming examples.
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Post by Phil / October 12th, 2009
This is just a small update to the sources of our Flash / Indexhibit example we posted earlier.
I added a FLA file for all of you that never used the Flex-compiler before :)
Just download the sources and open the ndxz.fla in (at least) Flash CS3. Hit cmd-return and enjoy.
When I have the time, I still want to build another very simple example that only uses assets from the library so that you can just change colors and forms on the timeline and re-compile the whole project with some great new looks.
Have fun. Cheers
Post by Phil / October 7th, 2009
Because some of you asked for an installation guide for the example I posted earlier – here comes a small how-to so that you can get the demo up and running on your own computer/webserver.
There is more than one way to get this done …
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Post by Phil / October 4th, 2009
FOTB 09 Beach Barbecue – Image by Keith Peters via Flickr
Second time (after 2007) for us being at FOTB in Brighton this year … and I just wanted to write a small roundup to let all of you who couldn’t be there in person know what you missed out on ;)
All in all it was great – again! Not so much about Flash and ActionScript but nonetheless there were definitely some speakers that totally blew my mind.
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Post by Phil / September 27th, 2009
I just uploaded the new 1.01 version of our Apdev VideoPlayer to google-code.
We fixed/added some features some of you requested, like e.g.
- Volume button behavior changed
- VideoPlayer now fires events when the video’s play-state changes
- and some other minor changes…
VideoPlayer example: http://apdevblog.com/examples/apdev_videoplayer/
HTML-embed example: http://apdevblog.com/examples/apdev_videoplayer/html.html
We also updated the documentation.
So go and check it out: http://code.google.com/p/apdev-videoplayer/.
Or just download the new version directly: apdev-videoplayer-1.0.1
