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[Tips] Easily develop AIR apps for Blackberry Playbook

Looking back during the early days of my involvement in this, I kept telling myself, “how hard can it be?” As you may know, RIM is almost the new kids on the block in the Tablet race game for 2011, which suffers a lot of criticism for not having a lot of app compared to its competitor, which is also true for Android, prior to launch previously. Give this platform a try, and you will know how much RIM has poured their trust and appreciation for Flash developer in this manner. And it is definitely not the developing for Android where you will still need to install the AIR player separately (which is EXTREMELY lame). The PlayBook has AIR integrated into its CORE OS, which means, you can get every single PlayBook on the planet to run your app without any extra installation.

Why is this post relevant to you? I’m pretty sure you might stumble across this infamous blog post: You Win! RIM by Jamie Murai. Certainly, RIM did listened to the rants and frustration of developer and evolved overtime to remedy their over-complicated process. Few months have passed since then, and I can’t tell how much I’m thankful to RIM for its appreciation for developer, and especially the Flash platform. I’m here, happy with my PlayBook (from the Free PlayBook offer) going to share with you the entire workflow and process, which afterall, is not as scary as it seems, but in fact, has toned down a lot more compared to the earlier days. Sure, you might argue Apple has the best submission mechanism and workflow in the world, but that does not happen overnight, neither do Android Market.

This will be the definitive guide for Mac users with Adobe Flash Professional to creating their PlayBook app. To give you an idea on how much time and effort you need to spend from developing to submitting an app to AppWorld, in point forms below, the 5 steps to your first app in AppWorld.

  1. Downloads (1 day)
  2. Apply as vendor (may take up to 3 working days for vendor application & code signing keys approval)
  3. Simulator and development (minimum 1 day, varies depending on complexity of your app)
  4. Signing your app (for submission to AppWorld) (1 day)
  5. Waiting for review and putting app on sale (7 – 14 days)

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[Thoughts] Blatant rip-off or pure coincidence?

It has been a long time since I do not know when where I give some of my two cents in Flash sites. I have stumbled across this site in the morning and upon the first 10 seconds, deja-vu occurred to me.

Cup Size Choir

Apparently, I am pretty challenged to think why the decision was made by the Creative Director or Art Director to pitch the project with this idea. Was it coincidence? Or inspiration? You decide. However to think that a good idea will always lives on, it’s a true statement, because even until today, it will always reminded me of the site below, that whipped this up years ago.


OOOOOOUCH.com

Even today, the execution and idea are still one of the cheekiest and brilliant one. The site above originally posted back at myflashportal (That was 4 years ago!).

Roundup from an angry Flash-o-sphere morning

This news literally woke me up from my bed at 8 A.M. Well it might be much of an issue for existing developer but it’s certainly did hit every Flash developer’s crotch hard. Enjoy reading the thoughts and shouts below.

Credits for the pic

On a brighter side, let’s see what people think of OS4

The aftermath, after a day of the disaster:

Update 10th April – Added more response from the interwebs.
Update 10th April – Added an aftermath responses.
Update 12th April – More responses from the interweb.

  • February 1, 2010
  • In Flash, Rants
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[Rant] My respond to “Can Flash be saved”

Can Flash Be Saved

As a fellow Flasher for almost…5 years (unofficially 12 years! First met Flash during their Flash 3 era), it absolutely boiled my blood just to read the thoughts on the blog post. I might be over-reacting, but it seems the trend crowrd now tend to over-hyping HTML5 like the goddess of their time and throwing shits on Flash like everything bad is made of them.

Read the heated discussion here.

And on a sidenote, a good move by the giant, Google.

Rejoice ladies!

[Tips] AS3 User location/country detector based on IP

I have wrote a script that automates the process of your project in detecting the user location based on their current IP address via maxmind’s Javascript API. What you will need to do is to

  • See the demo below
  • Get the source code
  • Read the comment inside the FLA and start using it  :D

What is this?

A simplified script that detects the visitor’s country and other details such as latitude/longtitude based on their current IP address.

Why is this necessary?

I felt that there is a need sometimes for us to automate the language selection or region selection process in some major big site that helps in cutting down user frustration through multiple clicks before going into the site. I figured this could be useful.

How to use it?

What you will need to do is to wait until the loading listener is completed before using it.  Sample usage :

var userCountry:String = getCountryName();

Where to get the files?

Download the source file

View the demo (SWF)

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