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[UPDATE]: Adobe has removed support for ByteArray.shareable until Player 11.5. The source code has been updated to work around that restriction, but have left the example code intact since it will eventually work fine. In part 1 of this series we looked at the basic message protocol for AS3 Workers,...

[UPDATE] Adobe has removed support for ByteArray.shareable until Player 11.5. The source code has been updated to work around that restriction, but have left the example code intact since it will eventually work fine. In Part 1 of my Intro to AS3 Workers series I looked at the fundamentals of...

[UPDATE]: Part 2 and Part 3 of this tutorial are available now [UPDATE 2]: Adobe has removed support for ByteArray.shareable until Player 11.5. With the beta release of AIR 3.4 and Flash 11.4, Adobe has introduced one of the most requested API’s for years: Multi-threading! With AS3 workers it’s now...

I started developing my first mobile App in Summer, 2010. It was a work project, the target was Android and the technology was AIR 2.5. I was a longtime Flash/Web Developer, but had been late to the AS3 / Flex game, I had only about 2 years of AS3 experience under...

Today I discovered a treasure trove of Native Extensions for AIR, all available for the extremely reasonable price of $99. The package is built by the guys at distriqt, and has the following native extensions: Push Notifications / C2DM Local Notifications Native Dialogs Network Info Camera Compass Battery Vibration Gyroscope...

In my previous performance showdown, I took a look at the various Stage3D-based 2D frameworks like Starling, ND2D and genome, and compare them to GPU Render Mode and a Haxe. It’s been a few months and several revisions later for both Starling and ND2D, lets see how they’re looking now!...

One of the most annoying things about App Development is what to do about your web presence post launch. Ideally you would build a website for each product, or at least a spotlight page within your main website. But that’s alot of extra work when you are a single developer...

Last week I entered “PicShop HD” in the Free App a Day program to see if I could use it to increase visibility of my App in the Apple AppStore. If you’ve never heard of FAAD before, it’s a paid service, in which you pay a healthy amount of money...

My FAAD experiment has begun! Get your free copy of PicShop HD if you download before sunday… get em while they’re hot!! http://freeappaday.com/app.php?id=502430343 Next week, when all the numbers have been crunched, I’ll post the results…...

Getting exposure on the iTunes App Store is probably the single hardest thing to do as an indie developer. Generally it comes down to who you know, rather than the quality of your application. If you have a publisher, friends in the press, or venture capital funding, then you are...