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Continuing on from Part Three of the Exporting for iPhone using Air 2.7 and FlashDevelop Tutorial You should should now have your Apple Developer account and certificates ready to package up your app. In this part we will compile the .swf into an .ipa file ready to transfer onto an iOS device for testing. Putting […]

Continuing on from Part Two of the Exporting for iPhone using Air 2.7 and FlashDevelop Tutorial You should have a FlashDevelop project built and ready to export your swf file for conversion into an iOS friendly .ipa file. In Part Three we will learn about the certificates required by Apple in order to create your […]

Continuing on from Part One of the Exporting for iPhone using Air 2.7 and FlashDevelop Tutorial you should now have FlashDevelop primed with the Flex/Air 2.7 SDK and you’re now ready to start building your amazing iPhone App. In Part Two you will see how to set up an iPhone Air project which will allow […]

With the recent release of Air 2.7 Adobe is claiming that they’ve increased performance by up to 4 times what was previously possible. You have to take that with a grain of salt though as the proof is always in real world use and while I would definitely say 2.6 was a vast improvement upon […]

I’ve been building Flash sites and applications for a while now and I still sometimes forget how to properly embed fonts for use with dynamic text. I’m not talking about populating existing TextFields that have manually had fonts embedded in them, but rather more complex situations where you are either dynamically creating TextFields or you […]

Having just seen the story about Google’s new App Inventor, something immediately felt very familiar. For anyone who remembers the good ol’ days of Macromedia Director and it’s ‘Behaviors’ the drag and drop coding paradigm might ring a bell. What follows is a bit of a whine, I never knew it was in me, but […]

This is a feature in AS3 that I hadn’t come accross before. If you ever load swf files into one another you might not know it, but you’ll be dealing with application domains. I’ve loaded in SWF’s before, but never had to pay any specific attention to the applicationDomain. Basically they allow you to specify […]