Six days ago Apple has enabled low-level access to NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 320M and GT 330M H.264 GPU hardware in latest release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Today Adobe already released a preview version of Flash Player (code name ‘Gala’) which introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3 You can download the release here. Thats really great news because the performance of Flash Player on mac is much worse [...]

Hear is a short roundup of few last days. Flash can be imported to HTML5 Canvas This is not new, world heard about it few weeks back. With the release of Creative Suite CS5 developers will be able to export Flash animation as HTML5 Canvas. Michael Chaize Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist compares performance of HTML5 and Flash Player 10.1 on mobile devices. Comparison of performance of Flash Player 10.1 and HTML 5 on Mobile Devices [...]

Few months after 3.0 release FD team presents new delivery of their great software. It is a major feature release that introduces few new things like refactoring and multiproject support. We will keep improving these features inlater releases. As this is a major release, we will respond back with few bug fix releases soon. Also plugin devs should check that their plugins are working with this new release ok. Big thanks for this release goes [...]

After Apples slap into Adobes face Flash owner agreed that they will stop investing in iPhone Flash development tools until further notice. The iPhone packager will still be shipped with the new release of Flash IDE (Flash CS5) but will not be developed further, after Apples last announcement developers will not be able to sell Flash apps converted with iPhone packager on AppStore. Don’t you worry Adobe is only giving up on iPhone they will [...]

I totally forgot about this poll which was closed few weeks back. The results are very interesting, 314 votes where received mostly from ActiveDen Flash Developers. As it clearly results from this poll it’s worth being a Flash Developer. Most of us earn $25-$100 (66% = $25-$50 32% & $51-100 34%) there are even some developers that charge over $300 for an hour of their work! By the time more and more people voted I [...]

I cannot believe this but Scaleform has announced that their Flash based solution for graphic interfaces in games (Scaleform Gfx) will be added free of charge into Unreal Engine! Here is a little video which shows the Scaleform Gfx in action embedded into Unreal Tournament III. This 3D UI really fits Unreal spirit. Few years back I was a hard core UT player, now I am a Flash Developer, it’s nice to see those two [...]

From couple of days you can sign up for Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR Betas, first private betas just started. The date of public beta is unknown at this point. There are many great features that will be available in both Flash Player 10.1 and AIR – there will be allot of new and cool stuff to learn, stay tunned! I am really looking forward to develop for Android since Apple has totally denied [...]

Most of you probably wonder what will be new in Flash CS5 Professional, after key feature (exporting flash project as iPhone app) was banned from use? Adobe has presented the new CS5 package on Monday, the new branding looks really great and creative. Right now there is no way to download the trail of any CS5 products. Rumors spreads that the new CS5 package will be available for download around 15th of May. Back to [...]

Adobe finally have made a move regarding the whole Flash on iPhone OS issue. Week ago Apple have made changes to the iPhone SDK which banned the use of cross-compilers to build applications for iPhone OS. IT World quotes sources close to Adobe as saying that they will sue Apple with in few weeks. Flash platform owners wants to take Apple to a court for “restraint of trade”. Neither of those companies has commented this [...]

Much has changed since my last post, last few wees where crazy. Flash Builder 4 was officially released. I was trying to work with it but I failed. At the beginning I had some trouble with CPU usage (it was around 100%) when I finally managed to run it I started to have trouble with code hinting… after two days of struggle I went back to Flex Builder 3. I will go back to Flash [...]