Facebook and Flash – A Book Review

by Devon O.· January 23, 2011· in Flash, Life· 6 comments
Now, I should begin by saying I absolutely hate building Facebook applications. And I build a lot of them at work. Every time I get the word from above that we’re doing another FB app, I just groan – both inwardly and out. It’s become a running joke of the office. Why do I dislike Facebook apps so much? After all, I say to myself, they’re really just little Flash widgets and whatsits (at least the ones we do) that have to make a few extra calls to the Facebook API to tie the thing to a social platform – and I love building things with Flash and actionscript. Well, occasionally, the trouble is the client who asks for a Facebook application with absolutely no idea what they would like it to do or what it’s even capable of doing. These are companies simply trying to keep up with the Joneses of the social networking age who probably read in last month’s edition of some Digital Marketing magazine or other that Facebook applications are the “Way of the Future” in getting your product noticed. Facebook applications, in and of themselves, aren’t necessarily a bad thing, but they exist to perform […]
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Multitouch Fluid Dynamics with AIR for Android and RTMFP

by Devon O.· January 19, 2011· in Actionscript· 3 comments
The other day I was having some fun playing around with Eugene Zatepyakin’s (aka @inspirit) FluidSolverHD (Actionscript port of C++ fluid dynamics library, MSAFluid. Or is MSAFluid, the processing/java port of the C++ library? In any case it’s a very cool fluid dynamics thingamabob – the HD version using Alchemy). After a bit of tinkering, I began to wonder how well FluidSolver would run on an Android device using AIR for Android. I quickly discarded that idea though and thought maybe I could run the FluidSolver on the pc but control it from the Android device (turns out I was right in doing so. Just for kicks I later tried running FluidSolver on my Android phone. It starts off at a nice 20 frames per second or so then rapidly degrades to around 3 FPS. Then I shut it down before it just crashed my phone altogether). So I dug into a bit of RTMFP – which is something I’ve been wanting to play with ever since checking out Jozef Chúťka’s (aka @jozefchutka) Remotair application. In fact, I could have built this thing using Remotair, but I wanted to get my hands dirty with a bit of code and learn myself […]
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Devon O. Wolfgang

AIR | Unity3D | AR/VR

Unity Certified Developer

Technical Reviewer of “The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development” and “Starling Game Development Essentials”

Reviewer of “The Starling Handbook”

Unity Engineer at Touch Press.

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