Apollo: All the resources to start having fun

Mar 202007
 

Apollo New Project
Lynda.com has release a tutorial about Adobe Apollo.
All the basic to make a simple application are explained by Mike Chambers:

Join Mike Chambers, Adobe’s Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations, as he gives an exclusive, hands-on glimpse of the alpha version Apollo: a powerful new development tool from Adobe. Web developers fluent in Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax have been promised a smooth transitional tool for building cross-platform desktop and hybrid web/desktop applications, and Mike shows just how Apollo fulfills this promise.

If you got question you can join the apollocoders groups.

If you want some example, codes and tutorial you can give a try to Everything Flex : Apollo Central (by Rich Tretola)

There are already tons of resources on the Net. But I guess it’s a good start to have fun with Apollo. I’m looking forward for some more free time. Or the dream: work Apollo at work ;)

Ahmet

Download Apollo Alpha Now

Mar 192007
 

Apollo Logo
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with the strengths of desktop applications – application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences.

Download from here

Ahmet

Apollo book, free to download :)

Mar 172007
 

Apollo Book
One week ago I wrote about the new book from O’Reilly: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers. Now this book is free to to download directly from the labs.
The main Chapter are :

  • Introduction to Apollo
  • Getting Started with Apollo Development
  • Using HTML Within Flex-Based Apollo Applications
  • Using the File System API
  • Apollo Mini-Cookbook

    • So now there is no more excuse not begin to studying Apollo ;) We just need to have an alpha under the finger… that’s true, but it shall be coming soon, I hope.

    Ahmet

    Buzz Monitoring about Adobe Apollo

    Mar 152007
     

    Technorati Chart

    Here’s a quick post to show the number of post containing “Adobe Apollo”. I post it here because I had already see some chart of Technorati, but never found were it was… (okay maybe it’s obvious but forgive my blindness).
    This tool is very useful for marketer but it’s not the only tool that we can use to monitor the result of our web-marketing.
    Others free tools usable to monitor buzz :

  • Ice Rocket, it allows us to compare trend
  • Blog Pulse, also compare trends
  • Google Trends, useful for geo-localized trend

    • It’s not so much that I’m a fan a buzz monitoring, but it’s a big part of the thesis that I’m writing, normally in march 30 it will finally be finished! I’ll post a lot more about buzz and web-marketing after this date.

    Please if anyone know other free tool to monitor buzz and trends please comment or contact me (top right).
    Ahmet

    Using gesture as an interface for mobile applications

    Mar 132007
     

    lightrider[Via Nokia Blogs]
    The WII remote control is giving some fresh idea to some developers, just look at these youTube [1,2].
    That’s a great way to use the Nokia 5500 in-built accelerometers…

    [...]My proposition in the whole talk was that using Nintendo and the DS and Wii as an inspiration for attracting a non-traditional gamer audience (although some comments on web relating reports of my talk wrongly assumed I was suggesting phones as a replacement). I believe that accelerometers have an enormous potential for attracting non-gamers[...]

    I totally agree with the last sentence :

    [...]add these sensors to as many of there devices as possible as having a critical mass of devices in the market will be essential for getting operators to take this seriously[...]

    Actionscript 3 webcast (video-tutorials)

    Mar 122007
     

    It seems that I won’t have any time to do more video tutorials for a long time (at least 6 month).
    So here are all the video I’ve made about my discovery of AS3. I really hope it will be useful to all the beginners in the new actionscript (which can be used in Flash CS3, Flex 2.0 and Apollo).

    helloWorld [1]


    sample hw1
    In this first video I’ll show you how to make a simple helloWorld with AS3 (and Flash 9 Public Alpha).
    Watch the video
    Download Source (zip)

    helloWorld [2]


    sample hw2

    Following the helloWorld [1], this video will show how to use an input text. Then how to handle an event and finally how to use the a if-else condition.
    Watch the video
    Download Source (zip)

    Display & control MC


    sample DisplayList
    How to display movieClip on the stage and how to control them with AS3. Managing the deepth of a MC with setChildIndex.
    Watch the video
    Download Source (zip)

    Playing Flash Video with AS3


    sample FLV player

    How to display a FLV on the stage and to handle it’s resolution (videoWidth vs .width), only with Actionscript 3.0, no use of components.

    Watch the video
    Download Source (zip)

    Animating MC with Timer Class

    sample timer4
    How to get and set propeties of a MovieClip/Sprite class in AS3?
    And how to animate a MovieClip with the Timer Class.
    Watch the video
    Download Source (zip)

    Xml & Actionscript 3.0

    sample XML
    How to load an XML with the new URLLoader & URLRequest, and some simple example of using E4X for node and attributes searching, using AS3 and Flex 2.0.
    Watch the video
    Download Source (zip)

    Display Audio Spectrum

    Sound Spectrum

    Simply displaying an audio spectrum, with SoundMixer.computeSpectrum(). Displaying a different color for the right and the left audio channel.
    Watch the video
    Download Source (zip)

    It was my first time making some video tutorials, you’ll hear (and you surely also read) that my English is far from being perfect, but I hope to be understandable ;)
    The two first video are the one with the worst quality, I haven’t found any time to remake it.

    Ahmet

    Apollo: Using the File System API

    Mar 102007
     

    Apollo Book
    Wondering why I didn’t see it earlier, but there is a free chapter (about the file system API) from the book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers. Yes it’s only for the Alpha of Apollo (alpha to be out Mars 16th)
    The book is sell as a Developer’s Reference for Apollo’s Alpha Release for Flex developers, but Flasher who already tried the AS3 won’t be lost here.

    I can’t wait to play with it…

    Ahmet

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