Here are my slides from my FITC Edmonton talk titled Building iPhone Applications with Flash CS5. You can download the slides from here. (PDF). Btw, really great conference and vibe, and the speaker list was simply amazing. Congrats to Shawn and the FITC crew for putting on another great event.

Below is a list of some of the best resources if you are interesting in getting a deeper understanding Adobe’s recent announcement that Flash CS5 will be able to output standalone applications for the iPhone. Building Applications for the iPhone with Flash : My original blog post on the iPhone announcements. Developer FAQ : Official FAQ which answers common questions about creating content for iPhone using Flash. Why you should NOT care about building apps for the iPhone with Flash : Blog post I made which puts the announcement into the context of the other Flash Player 10.

Prompted by some of the work from Grant Skinner (in particular his FOTB 2009 session) and Thibault Imbert, I have been doing a lot of research lately into optimizing ActionScript 3 content. Not just how to make it run faster, but how to approach the process of optimization. I am also starting to work on a small project which works with pixel data from images, and on which I anticipate performance might be an issue when working with larger images.

The news from Adobe MAX 2009 that probably generated the most buzz and discussion online was the announcement that Flash CS5 will have support for outputting applications for the iPhone. While I am really excited about the news, and the work we are doing around the iPhone, I am here to tell you that you should not care about it. Let me repeat that: You should NOT care about using Flash to build applications for the iPhone.

This morning during the day 1 keynote at Adobe Max 2009, Adobe announced that the next version of Adobe Flash (Flash Professional CS5) will include support for creating stand-alone applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. As you can imagine, this is something that we are really excited about, and we expect there to be a lot of questions. This post should address some of those questions, and point to additional resources with more information.

Just a quick note, but my Max session for Wednesday morning, at ( 9:30 AM) titled “Secret Session : Flash” is now an open Q and A with the Flash Player and AIR teams to talk about creating applications for the iPhone with Flash.

View video on YouTube This was built using the new Microphone Access APIs coming in the next version of Adobe AIR (code named “Athena”). Some more info here. Lots of info on Athena and other new technologies at Adobe Max 2009. Pixel Mesh graphics created by eboy.

I am in Brighton for Flash on the Beach 2009 (amazing conference as usual). I gave a presentation on Adobe AIR yesterday, titled Advanced Desktop Development with Adobe AIR , which went well. I covered how to accomplish and approach a number of development tasks when working with AIR, and also talked about a couple of new features that we are working on. I have posted the slides for the session, which you can grab from here .

I don’t have a formal computer science training / education, so I never got the chance to learn about working with low level data structures (bits and bytes). I have wanted to learn this for some time, but had difficulty finding resources for it which didn’t assume I had a computer science degree. Well, yesterday, FITC posted all of the video sessions from FITC Toronto, and I spent some time watching Lee Brimelow’s presentation on working with ByteArrays.

Just a quick note, but we have updated the Flash Player 10 System requirements page. The update adds support for various browsers on Microsoft Windows 7 and Mac 10.6 (Snow Leopard). You can view the Flash Player 10 system requirements here.