Discovered this one just today, straight from Japan ;) Another great new piece of the Spark Actionscript Library. The QRCodeReader classes! Check it out Flash Mobile application developers! Now you can integrate your own QR reader into your AS3 mobile application.
Let’s hope this creates another big push to the markets, so this technology really get’s as common as a price tag on a product in your local supermarket.
I still find this an amazing piece of technology! So simple but so practical! Capture a photo of a printed QR code with your mobile device. And immediately get any kind of information on the matter. (Car promotion, festival, artist profile, real estate, etc.)
It can be more specific info, an URL, a v card, pricing, ingredients, a note, etc.
Now Microsoft has the “Tag” (beta) ;) It even has reporting included, you can track how many visits you got by people scanning your tag in a magazine!
Also check out the Charts API of Google like I did with this http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=100×100&chl=http://www.rive.be&choe=UTF-8&chld=L|0
Let’s hope, now that the mobile market is growing exponentially worldwide… such technologies will soon be used, adapted and searched for, by a growing number of users! Can’t wait to see tons of products in the supermarket and magazines full with this printed codes!
It’s so easy now! See it as a simple HTML webpage with some Javascript, CSS and an embedded Flash object. Creating widgets or applications for Nokia S60 5th edition is not that hard to do. You could use the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver or just plain old Notepad. How to package Flash content in a Widget where you zip the whole package and rename it *.wgz …et voila. More …
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As I was reading the article about Flash Player 10.1 hardware acceleration for video and graphics, this is what I marked as important to myself, when developing for Flash player 10.1.
So in general I quote:
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The Adobe Distributable Player Solution (Beta) is being dumped. Mariam elaborated on this.
With the new evolving technologies like Flex Mobile framework, Flash Player 10.1, AIR, and so on, it’s time for a better alternative! Remember the Open Screen project?
(Because, honestly, how can you deliver the same experience as on other devices, by using Flash Lite 3.1 or lower? Harsh, but sooner or later there comes a time you have to evolve too and take it a step further. Time is ticking for feature phones, everything will eventually become a smartphone. Logical Adobe stops investment there.)
Maybe Adobe will implement the next mobile distribution solution into the new “Flash Platform Distribution Service“. Maybe with their distribution partner Gigya? Looking forward to an alternative!
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It was an interesting day at Multi-Mania. For the first time it’s organized over a period of 2 days. Day 1 are only workshops.
Things I kept in the back of my head: More …
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Finally another step into making the project more understandable for beginners. They packaged their services into MXP’s. So they are easy/understandable for use from Flash. “It provides the bridge between Flash Lite™ and the Java™ ME platform.”
They still have a lot more work to do if compared with, let’s say, Nokia. And how they are pushing the community onwards. Sony Ericsson has to continue making this Capuchin development proces more easy/attractive/understandable to mobile developers if you ask me. We’re frontend developers…not Java people. ;)
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After having seen the following speakers, Serge Jespers (Adobe), Thomas Joos (Boulevart), Ralph Cohen (IceMobile), Michel van Velde (Oneshoe), Wimer Hazenberg (Booreiland), Ruben Salomon (HotSMS) en Ubi de Feo (TwoDotOne)… I must say, very happy that I went! It was interesting and a very well organized event. Congratz to the Adobe User Group Netherlands. More …
I couldn’t believe there was such thing called a framework for AS2 code? On top of that it’s even for Flash Lite development. Worth checking out, as soon as there comes some time free for more research projects ;) My first opinion was, for sure it will be too large/heavy for flash lite development. But after reading this, it proved me wrong I guess. They say it’s simple & lightweight.
Feather Framework consists of 23 classes and a few Open Source projects from other developers;
It looks very promissing.
Tips & tricksRien Verbrugghe is a Senior Flash Platform Developer/Consultant at Nascom.
Daily development with Adobe® Flash, Flex & AIR technologies, non-stop gathering of knowledge about mobile, web & desktop applications.
