Some time ago Adobe teamed up with Google and are brewing some really cool API’s. At the Mobile World Congress, Adobe announced Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR for Android! (Click here to view the press release) This is the best tech news I heard for a long time (since I own a HTC Hero just love AIR, this is big news ) Here is a video with and Motorola Android phone running Adobe AIR.
So hopefully we as developers are now able to create Android Apps straight from Flash, while considering the limitations of small devices with limited computing an process power. For more information also check out the beta draft of a white paper created by Thibault Imbert (that cool guy from ByteArray.org). [Direct PDF download] or visit the Developer Connection with more videos and information
At The Future of Web Apps London, Kevin Rose shares the secrets to digg.com and wefollow.com’s explosive user growth. He covers ten unique strategies that turn passive users into passionate advocates.
UXMag has a really nice article by Theresa Neil about designing for RIA. This article outlines the process to creating rich applications and focuses primarily on screen design.
Theresa recently wrote a new book, “Designing Web Interfaces” which i’m reading at the moment and is really well written. (Not as nice as Jenifer TidwellsDesiging Interfaces, but i’m only half way through the book… ) Here are her slides if you don’t want to read the whole article, including the 15 different layouts she talks about and the 6 patterns:
This is incredible and struck my like clear sky lightning.
The next time you’re building software and think to yourself, “Don’t worry, our users will be able to figure it out,” I want you to remember this blog post and watch this video again, and again.
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Evan Doll and Alan Cannistraro are running a course on iPhone application development at Stanford University, such has been the demand for the course that they have made it available via iTunes U. This 10 week course is published every Wednesday and Friday and each lecture lasts about 1 hour and is accompanied by notes in pdf format. This is a hugely popular course and is now top of the iTunes U downloads.
) Here is a video with and Motorola Android phone running Adobe AIR.
) Here are her slides if you don’t want to read the whole article, including the 15 different layouts she talks about and the 6 patterns: 
