I just tried packaging a game, written in AS3, for my iPad, PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device – works pretty well!
You can play this game, a clone of the Intellivision classic, Worm Whomper, here.
Category Archives: Apps
Applications, mobile or otherwise, that I’ve built or recommend
Chinese Handwriting Recognition App
Unlike the iPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook has rather poor international keyboard support, with no method for entering chinese characters. I like the way iOS achieves this, so went about building my own version in ActionScript. Continue reading Chinese Handwriting Recognition App
How the hell do I build this?
I had a conversation yesterday with a friend and colleague about how his company should standardise their development environment for all Flashers – be they contract or perm, junior to senior.
iPad smoothness for iPad
I’d recently been playing around with packaging AIR for iOS, to run on my iPad. While the performance has been improved massively since CS5 Packager, it’s still not great in AIR 2.6. It seems that AIR 2.7 brings with it some great performance enhancements – though I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve tried it myself – check out the article and video here.