Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Getting Your Flash Builder IDE set up for BlackBerry PlayBook Development

This is a simple tutorial to help you get your Flash Builder 4.5 (Burrito) set up to develop for and emulate the BlackBerry PlayBook.  I've been playing with the PlayBook beta and it's pretty impressive.



Setting up Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 to compile for BlackBerry PlayBook from Technoracle on Vimeo.

Some screenshots:




Monday, January 31, 2011

New Tutorial - Build a new mobile application (RSS Monitor) in 30 minutes


The written version of the tutorial is now online.  This tutorial will show you how to build a mobile application for reading the Slashdot RSS feed using Flash Builder 4.5. In order to complete this tutorial, you will need Flash Builder "Burrito" and the sample files, which include two Flash Builder projects:

The starter project [contains icons and other assets]
The completed project [the finished project that you can use as a source code reference]

This tutorial is brought to you courtesy of the Adobe Evangelism team. You may reproduce, modify, and use these materials for just about any purpose as long as you respect the copyrights of the owners involved [including Slashdot and Adobe]. You may use this to teach courses in mobile development.

Link:  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/mobile-rss-reader.html