Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formely Flex Builder 4 ) and Adobe Flash Catalyst are out on Adobe Labs going to download and try them out before posting a proper review meanwhile more info on Ryan Stewart’s blog and Andrew Shorten’s Tutorial
Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new features, plus improvements to many existing features.There are three main themes to this release: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric application development. For an overview of the features included in this first public beta release, please read Tim Buntel’s What’s New in Flash Builder 4 article and watch the new feature videos. As always, the Flex 4 framework is included within Flash Builder, so please also read Matt Chotin’s What’s New in the Flex 4 SDK article.
Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.
- Transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® into functional user interfaces.
- Create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product
- Publish a finished project as a SWF file ready for distribution
- Work more efficiently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to create rich Internet applications (RIAs). Designers use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience then provide the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.
Go get Flash Builder 4
Go get Flash Catalyst
Flash Builder 4 Standalone Installer
Flash Builder 4 Plugin for Eclipse
Flex Component Kit for Adobe Flash Professional CS4
Flex 4 Test Automation Plug-in
Flash Catalyst Beta
More Adobe Resources:
Learn about Flash Builder 4
Learn about Flex 4 SDK
Working with Flash Builder 4
Adobe released an update to the FLVPlayback component (v2.5.0.15) for Flash CS4 and Flex 3.
Excerpt from Kevin’s blog. Go there for more detailed information
Today(22-may-09) we released two free tools; the new DVRCast application for Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5, and an update to FLVPlayback component. You can find them both on the Flash Media Server productivity tools page: http://www.adobe.com/go/fms_tools/. You can read more from a new article from David Hassoun posted here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/live_dvr_pt2.html
DVRCast uses existing technology built into the server, DVRCast extends the server functionality with abilities to manage metadata, start and stop and scheduling of DVR-enabled streams.
Adobe has updated the component to support DVR functionality. We now support this component in both Flash Professional CS4 and the Flex SDK. The current version is FLVPlayback 2.5.0.15, and is included in the DVRCast download. You can also download it separately.
So it finally happened the IDE(Integrated development environment) known till now as Flex Builder it going to be renamed as Flash Builder , why ? To me it’s easy It makes a lot more sense, yes you can use the Flex Framework and yes you can use also build AIR apps and ActionScript 3.0 projects but at the end the result its the same your project gets compiled as an .swf file , so maybe this rename of the IDE should have happened earlier, it would have evited some confusion. This means that the Flex Framework it’s going to be renamed ? apparently no the flex framework stills and the Flex SDK stills the same but who better to explain it than Lee Brimelow and Duane “Chaos” Nickull check out their posts on the subject.
Hope this is the first step towards the process of integrating the Flash tools and not just renaming them. I haven’t used Flash IDE coding panel since who knows when, hope the Flash Builder and the Flash Professional IDES one day get along real well.
UPDATES:
Serge Jespers (Adobe Platform Evangelist ) explains in a little more detail why the renaming of Flex Builder to Flash Builder.
Keith Peters thoughts on Flash Builder
Ryan Stewart post Flex Builder “Gumbo” is Being Renamed Flash Builder
Lee Brimelow’s Flash Builder rebrand FAQ
Peter Elst Flex Builder gets rebranded to Flash Builder
Mihai Corlan (Adobe Platform Evangelist ) About the rebranding of Flex Builder into Flash Builder
Chuck Freedman The FlashFlex name game.
Adobe teams up with Facebook and releases new Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform ).
So if You where thinking on how to start developing Flash Applications for Facebook you will find this site very useful.
It includes various how to start videos , useful information and a brand new ActionScript 3.0 Facebook API:
Get the API
- For the latest ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform:
Go to Google code
Get started
Deliver rich, social experiences on the web
The Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform provide the ideal solution for building rich, social experiences on the web. Flash is available on more than 98% of Internet-connected PCs, so people can immediately access the applications, content, and video that enable social interactions. The Facebook Platform is used by millions of people everyday to connect and share with the people in their lives. Together, both platforms allow you to:
* Share: Create rich interactions for users to share with friends.
* Have fun: Make games social; let users compete against their friends.
* Connect: Let users connect to your RIAs with Facebook Connect.
* Solve problems: Build RIAs that harness the power of community.
* Reach people: Reach millions of Facebook users through social distribution.
The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to build applications that combine the strengths of the Flash Platform and Facebook Platform.
Adobe Labs has released the beta of Text Layout Framework for Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR® 1.5. The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be used with Flash or Flex.
Together with the new text engine in Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5, the Text Layout Framework delivers multi-lingual, print-quality typography for the web, including support for:
- Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems of India, and others.
- Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around inline images
- Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography
- Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens
- Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing
- Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components.
It appears that the new version of Flex “
GUMBO” will already include the Layout Framework
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