Compress a String into Base64
This compression method is very helpful If you have a long string or any kind of byte array that you want to compress and then be able to put in a database or, for example, if you have a game with a...
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Air for Android – Blitting test on Motorola Xoom and Galaxy S 2
I have been trying different Android devices with Air for Android 3.1 and Blitting, I noticed the performance is very different on each of them, on my Galaxy S 2 it runs smooth but on Motorola Xoom...
View ArticleHow to rotate many MovieClips on the same external point using Matrix in AS3
We will use Matrix for this, it is a little bit more code to write, but the result is the best you can get. This way you can create an array of objects you want to rotate around a point, also you need...
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Build an App for iPhone or iPad with FlashDevelop
This guide contains the essential steps to build an App for iOS using FlashDevelop and Windows, I will not stop trying to explain what I am doing or why I am doing it, sometimes it gets so obscure that...
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How to apply a 9-Slice scaling on a Bitmap
If you are trying to apply a 9-Slice scaling on a Bitmap, by now you have already found out that is a big pain in the butt. If you don’t know yet, a 9-Slice scaling can be activated by going in the...
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How to create your own ANE for iOS using Adobe Air
Adobe Air gives us the amazing opportunity to access the device capabilities using extensions, also named ANE (Adobe Native Extensions). Creating an ANE is pretty simple, although it requires a...
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Create an infinite scrolling world with Starling and Nape
Many of you have probably used Box2D to make physic games, although for a few years I have been using Nape. Nape is much faster and optimized than Box2D, and finally has an API that makes sense. It is...
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Adobe Game Jam – San Francisco October 2012
Saturday 20 October 2012 I attended the Adobe Game Jam with a group of other people from my company. It was the first of, I hope, a long series organized by Tom Krcha and Lee Brimelow at Adobe. We...
View ArticleAir Android/iOS – Launch your App from the browser
Adobe Air gives you the opportunity on iOS and Android to create a personal URL that if called from a normal browser will launch your app instead. This is particularly useful if you are redirecting...
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Create an Air ANE for Android to dispatch background tasks
If you are using DIRECT or GPU mode with Adobe Air you probably have already noticed that once the app goes in background it stops firing any kind of Event. This means that any task that dispatches...
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