Great looking Flex Image Editor

When looking around for a Flex based image editor we came across Fauxto which shows just what's possible with Flex when it comes to image generation and manipulation.

Just go to Fauxto.com to check it out.

MojoFlex YouTube Desktop Player

Here is the another application created in Apollo.

YouTube Desktop Player, is the desktop application to play videos from YouTube. This is just the sample application, not for the commercial use. After installing the player you can search and play videos.

Once again code is not properly commented, please excuse me for that. Download the MojoFlexYouTubeVideoPlayer.zip (.zip 398KB), which contains MojoFlexYouTubeVideoPlayer.air file, install it and run the application.

(you will need to download and install the Run time: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/apolloruntime.html)

Enter the search phrase and hit the "Go" button, you will see the search result in the Playlist window.


Double click on the item you want to watch. You can click donwload button to get the selected file.




Here is the source (1,163 KB) file.

Leave your comments and let me know what you think.

All the best.

My first Apollo Application

Its been long time, since I stopped programming in Java, I wanted to create some desktop application. I was eagerly waiting for Adobe to release Apollo, so that I can do something. This weekend I decided to create a simple application in Apollo. Long ago I wrote one Flex application to play .flv files, so I though of using the same code and create on Flash video player. I spend about three hours and was able to create something very simple.

I was so excited to post my first Apollo Application. Please find the “.air” file at the end of this post. There is a zip folder with source files, please excuse me because source files are not tidy.

I personally believe Adobe has done excellent job, and made it so simple to create desktop application.

You will need to download and install Apollo Run time.

Download “FlashVideoPlayer.zip” (.zip 371KB)

Screen 1:

After installing the “FlashVideoPlayer.air” – FlashVideoPlayer.exe and it will open up the Video player. I tried to create player same as Windows Media Player 11.

Screen 2:


Click on Playlist icon and it will open up the Video browser window. Please select the flv file and click play icon. Video Browser window is filtering files and looking for only .flv files.

Download Source files:
MyFirstApplication.zip

All the best.

Apollo Alpha released today...!

Hey guys,

Good and Big News: Apollo Alpha is released today...

Get your copy today.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo

Download includes:

Apollo SDK
Apollo Runtime
Documentations and Samples
Apollo Extension for Adobe Flex Builder 2.0.1

All the best

Adobe Apollo Beta version

Hey guys keep an eye on Adobe labs’ Apollo section to be notified about the beta version of the Apollo.

Here is the link to signup for the notification.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=apollo_beta

If you haven't heard about Apollo, visit Developer's faq at Adobe Labs.
Developer FAQ

Don't miss out.....

if you fancy reading and preparing your self about it here is the book:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Books:Apollo_for_Adobe_Flex_Developers_Pocket_Guide

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, Jeff Scwartz

Get the Book



Download PDF of Book
Purchase from Amazon

All the best

Flex Documentation

Usually I look at other people’s code and general guidelines to learn new programming language. But its very important to know the programming language and its syntax. Adobe has published good range of documentation on its website.

Link: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/

Following is the list of available documents / references.

Installing Flex 2.0.1
(HTML)

Flex 2 Developer's Guide
PDF (PDF, 10.5MB) Zip (.zip, 5.5MB) HTML (LiveDocs format)

Creating and Extending Flex 2 Components
PDF (PDF, 1.3MB) Zip (.zip, 0.9MB) HTML (LiveDocs format)

Building and Deploying Flex 2 Applications
PDF (PDF, 2.7MB) ZIP (.zip, 1.7MB) HTML (LiveDocs format)

Programming ActionScript 3.0
PDF (PDF, 3.8MB) ZIP (.zip, 2.3MB) HTML (LiveDocs format)

ActionScript 3.0 examples
ZIP (.zip, 0.5MB)
Many topics in Programming ActionScript 3.0 include descriptions of example applications; the source code used to build these examples is available for download

Migrating Applications to Flex 2
PDF (PDF, 900KB) ZIP (.zip, 600KB)

Documentation ZIP file
ZIP (.zip, 45.5MB)
The Flex documentation ZIP file contains the Flex 2 usage documentation in PDF format and the Flex 2 Language Reference and Flex Data Services 2 Javadocs files in HTML format.

If you really want to get into the roots of Flex, download the Documentation zip files, it includes everything you need to know.

All the best