Let’s face it. The gesture API for Adobe AIR is mediocre at best. Here’s a look at something better, a framework that will allow you to create regions for custom gestures. Controlling where you want to pick up touch events. It will utilize multi-touch, gesture and accelerometer controls all in one package. Control your games [...]

This native application uses the accelerometer to determine the direction of gravity for the Box2D physics engine. It performs quite well given the number of computations and could probably be optimized considerably. Check out the video for a demo on the phone! Porting the code was the easy part. Configuring Adobe Flash and setting up [...]

Just received my Nexus One and got past my first hurdle in Flash development. Followed Lee Brimelow’s tutorial at http://www.gotoandlearn.com/ but did not see my device listed when running the adb devices command! After some digging, I found that there is a checkbox under Settings -> Applications -> Development to turn on debug mode. After [...]

Work with, rather than against, your project manager. Have you ever been asked to estimate something? Or the dreaded, what percent complete are we? Let me share some of the quantitative techniques I’ve used to lead successful projects. Problem: Developers are asked to complete ‘project management’ tasks on a daily basis. Many do not have [...]