Pocket Flash

I really should have posted this when I first watched it, but here you are a video taken from the Adobe Max conference, showing some new features for the new player. Notably there’s now a Z rotation property for sprites.

Youtube video of Google’s CEO Eric Schindt schwiped straight from abduzeedo, check it here.

I think if Adobe can nail a realistic distribution model for Flash Lite apps that would enable developers to get content out there, then Flash developers (and by that I mean Flash, Flash Lite, Flex and AIR) can really define “web 3.0″ apps in the way Eric mentions in this video. I’ve always thought that Ruby on Rails and Flash (of any sort) make absolutely beautiful partnership for developing RIAs as Rails offers a low entry for such a powerful set of technologies.

On another, note Flash has always been synonymous with viral marketing and as I truly believe, Flash Lite one day find itself hand in hand with mobile and therefore viral marketing.

Well there goes my plans for today, get Apollo here now.

There are also a few sample Apollo applications that can be downloaded from Adobe Labs too.

Mike Chambers has posted his code from 360Flex to build a very simple WYSIWYG HTML editor, that shows the Apollo File and HTML API’s
Example Code for 360Flex Apollo Session

Christian Cantrells’ “Video : Apollo APIs Session from 360Flex” is available here
which shows lots of example apps and API’s in Apollo

If you are interested in any of those things, you MUST watch this video.

Does this mean I can now claim a Wiimote on my expenses?

I’m reaching fever pitch about Apollo,

A link to ‘Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide’ was sent to me this morning, I started mooching through it and found a staggering amount of links to ‘page not found’. The one link that did work, lead me to Ryan Stewart’s article ‘Apollo public alpha coming in the next few weeks’. I’ve been looking forward to Apollo for a while as I’ve used mdm Zinc to create cross platform desktop apps from Flash for a few years, and although it’s fairly easy I can’t wait to see the Flash / Flex - Apollo workflow.