Today RIM announced new tablet called BlackBerry PlayBook. It will be another chance for Flash developers, the tablet will ship with Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.5! This will be huge market for flash enhanced applications and games. Watch the video bellow to see how awesome this tablet looks. Last few months there was allot of buzz around Flash but as we can see most of the technology companies makes their devices Flash enabled. There [...]

Few weeks back Envato did an interview with me, the questions asked are covering mostly my work as a ActiveDen author. Today my interview appeared on Envato Notes. Meet Kuba Gaj (mpc) from ActiveDen. Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living? Hello, my name is Kuba Gaj and I am 23 year old IT student from Poland. Currently I am full time Envato author. I [...]

At last after almost six months of planing and development I have finally finished the version 1.2 of XML Flip Book / AS3, there are tones of new features. I have also changed the tweening engine from Tweener to TweenMax (some say it’s better :) ) Help file was also redesigned, I have spend few days updating the support file, which is now HTML based web page (you can view it here). List of changes: [...]

After Steve Jobs letter where he explained why there is no Flash support on iPhone OS, there was anxiety in Flash Community – how Adobe will response? Few days after the letter was published co-founders of Adobe where interviewed by many influential magazines. Adobe (and Flash Developer) though thats not enough. Today they have publish a letter written by Adobe founders which explains all of the fouls accusations coming from Apple. Creators of Flash also [...]

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 [...]