Why is Amazon paying me?

I was going through bank statement recently and saw a charge from Amazon that looked off. A strange amount around $40, in the wrong column.  What’s this? They gave me money for once. And this wasn’t the first time, I just hadn’t noticed in previous statements because I see “Amazon” and figure it was something [...]

And our second new multi-session course is…Optimizing Flash for iOS and Android Export

Jeremy Hicks’ new lesson is finally here! We teased it a few weeks back by uploading a lengthy preview on Vimeo , so our apologies to anyone waiting patiently for a while. But the wait was worth it, I think. He’s put 10 hours of screen time into this, and MORE is coming. At least one [...]

Optimizing Flash for the iPhone or Android

So I guess all I talk about on this blog is how to make apps now, but hey, that is kiiiinnnda the future of things for us illustrators, animators and web developers. And I’m sure I’m not the only one steering you toward app development, if you aren’t already, so by now hopefully you’re getting [...]

Gridiron Geezers: Some student work!

    Tim just shared his latest entry into the Android Market with me. Gridiron Geezers He made some modifications to that  Actionscript 3 slingshot tutorial I taught and turned it into this great looking game.   Tim is also available for freelance work, and you can contact him through the link below. 

What to do when your AIR to Android app closes

Hey gang, so here’s some tips and code for what to do when your Air to Android App closes. Actually lemme be a bit more specific there , because coming from the iOs world to my Android tablet, I just figured backing out of the app (hitting Back or the Home button) would kill it. [...]

Early stats on my Android Game

My Ninja Toss game has been in the Android store for a couple days and Ninja Toss Free has been in there about 24 hours so for anyone interested the install stats are below. Active installs are people that still have the game installed. So that percentage is the number of people that were like [...]

Neato! Ninja Toss in the Android Market Store

So I finished this app about 2 hours ago, took a break for lunch, quickly did some screenshots and as of minutes ago the app is in the Android Store. How cool is that!? No nail-bitingly long approval process like the Apple App store. Of course there’s a good and bad side to that, but [...]

Actionscript 3 code for quitting an Android App

Or I could have titled this article, The code that drove me crazy this week. While working on a very simple shooter app using Flash CS5 and exporting to AIR for Android, I noticed that after adding music, then quitting the app, the music still played. I didn’t realize I was making a background-running audio [...]

Amazon Appstore!

Alright FlashCS5-sters, here’s even more reason to start making some apps. Android is now accepting developers to their version of the Android AppStore. One thing that seems promising with this vs. the Google Market App is that, well, this is Amazon. To my knowledge, I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything through Google Checkout (though [...]

Actionscript 3 Mobile Development Course

Hey, remember those free tutorials I posted to Vimeo? Well if you’d like to pay for those AND a few more, I’ve put together a super cheap $5 package with all the High Definition tutorial movies and source code. Some fun stuff that got added to the entire course (and isn’t posted to Vimeo) are [...]