I had the pleasure of visiting Adobe’s San Francisco office for Flash Camp a couple weeks back. Coming just on the heels of Apple’s big 3.3.1 announcement, it was perfect timing to hear Adobe’s reaction directly from Adobe. All of the videos are posted online on Adobe TV, but to save you some time, here are my Cliff’s notes:
- Open Discussion and Q&Q with David Wahdwani – Hear the first reaction directly from the head of the Flash Platform on Apple’s move
- What’s new in Flash CS5 – Nothing new if you’ve been paying attention, lots new if you haven’t
- Using Flash Builder 4 with CS5 – “You can edit your code in Flash Builder! It will ask you if you want to edit your code in Flash Builder!”
- Flash Player 10.1 Internals – Must-see for devs, excellent talk about how the player handles low-memory situations and how to develop for them (think: mobile)
- Flash Build 4 Tips and Tricks – For devs only really, but there’s definitely a couple tidbits worth noting (like keyboard shortcuts!)
- TV & Mobile Design Challenges & Insights – “Make text and hit areas bigger” But also gives some concrete recommendations
- Desktop and Mobile Development with Adobe Air – Adobe officially announced the AIR2 Beta for Android during this preso, talked about what it can do, very exciting
- Introduction to Multi-touch in Flash Player 10.1 – Excellent primer to get you thinking about how to create multi-touch interfaces with Flash on Android
- Developer Tips and Tricks for Targeting the Flash Platform – Mostly common sense techniques that good developers shouldn’t be news to any decent developer
- Advanced Text Layout with Flash CS5 – I didn’t see this session, but the new text layout features are very impressive