Understand the concept of Parallax Scrolling and create a nice parallax background effect for the in-game screen. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Write the base code needed to control the game state and hero's speed, define the idle state, add the Start button, and make the hero fly in. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Animate the hero based on mouse and finger position, learn about ways of detecting collisions in games, and write the detecting logic for this game. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Add food items to the in-game screen randomly and animate them, and detect collisions between the items and hero using similar techniques used for obstacles. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Learn how text rendering works in the Starling framework, and understand the two types of fonts you can use to display text in your games. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Create the obstacles, their artwork and Watch Out sign, and animate them randomly in the in-game screen. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Learn to build particles in the Starling framework using the Particle Extension as well as a manual method. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Learn how the artwork and animation for the Hungry Hero game were built and how the sprite sheet is created using Texture Packer, then run the animation in the project. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Paul Trani generates lots of excitement for Adobe’s upcoming presence at SXSW in Austin. He invites you to Adobe Creative Camp on Monday 3/12, where there will be sneak peeks of new Adobe tools for design and development. Visit adobe.com/go/sxsw

Chris Converse gives an overview of this provided template that uses CSS3 media queries. Read the article to learn more.

Learn how using Code Snippets in Flash Professional can make building your mobile application a snap.

Adobe engineers discuss areas of continued development in Flex-based and related technology.

Roy Fielding continues exploring the Apache Software Foundation's open development model.

Roy Fielding, Chief Scientist, discusses the Apache Software Foundation's open development model.

Technical Evangelist Andrew Trice covers Adobe AIR with captive runtime support for mobile application development, which will benefit your Flash Builder projects for Android OS. (Learn more about Adobe gaming technologies in the Game Development Center.)

Paul Trani discusses how Flash Professional CS5.5 allows you to get up and running with mobile development with newly available code templates.

Learn how to combine current best practices for mobile application development with the new features in Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 to make it easier than ever before to create content that works across many devices and screen sizes.

Join this session as we explore how to rapidly build HTML5 desktop and mobile applications using Sencha technologies. Ext JS and Sencha Touch are frameworks enabling development of pixel-perfect, cross-browser apps that look and feel like native applications. The frameworks are built on web standards (HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS), require no browser plug-ins, and can integrate with any server-side back end such as ColdFusion, PHP, or Java. Learn how to use Sencha Designer to create rich interfaces for the web in an easy-to-use visual environment.

Join a panel of leading automated testing tool providers, including SmartBear, TestPlant, Gorilla Logic, and Micro Focus, as they discuss the latest advances in automated testing solutions for Flex applications. Discover how these technologies used together with Adobe Flash Builder enable shorter development cycles at lower costs.

Learn techniques and lessons from real-world mobile application development, including UI/skinning approaches, custom components, platform integration, application architecture, and device dependent considerations. You'll come away better prepared to embrace the industry-shifting paradigm change that mobile development promises.

In this video, Paul Trani uses code snippets in Flash Professional CS5.5 to quickly turn his Flash project into a fully-functional app for mobile devices.

Explore the three most important drivers in enterprise technology: cloud, mobile, and social. In this session, we intend to arm the future enterprise developer with insights on these paradigm shifts that are challenging conventional approaches to development. We'll explain how the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP) leverages open standards and model-driven development to dramatically accelerate application development.

The Adobe Foundation hosted the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2011, “Media Beyond Borders”, a three-day immersive media event for over 60 specially selected international youth (ages 14-19) in which youth create and collaborate on media projects exploring issues such as human rights, education and community. The summit took place August 2nd - Aug. 6th, 2011 at Santa Clara University and also brought together lead educators from around the world representing the core leadership of educators in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. Educators worked in teams to create short media clips to use in longer presentations on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip educators describe techniques that help develop the best ideas and facilitate productive brainstorms.

In this episode, Greg Rewis shows you how to create native apps using Dreamweaver, with new features such as PhoneGap to support your app development.

In Part 2 of this topic, Serge Jespers demonstrates how to efficiently build apps that run across popular devices and platforms using AIR and Flash CS5.5.

In this episode, Serge Jespers demonstrates how to efficiently build apps that run across popular devices and platforms using AIR and Flash CS5.5.

Senior Technical Evangelist Duane Nickull illustrates using transformation gestures in Flash Builder, and discusses best practices for zoom events when developing for mobile devices.

After a quick interview with Julie Campagna, Ed Rowe, VP of Development Tooling at Adobe, demonstrates how Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 enables developers to reach Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS devices using the same codebase.

Native phone and tablet applications are increasingly becoming a component of modern web projects. In this video we'll show how Dreamweaver CS 5.5 integrates with the popular PhoneGap framework to use your existing web design and development skills to build native mobile applications for Android and iOS devices.

In this video, Scott Fegette explains how developers can create mobile applications that take advantage of features such as multitouch, camera, and location services using the new jQuery Mobile Framework in a future version of Dreamweaver.

The mobile evolution brings interesting multiscreen development challenges to developers. Adobe’s Doug Winnie, Tom Higgins from Unity and Mattias Ekendahl & Riccardo Giraldi from B-Reel share their thoughts on developing for multiple screens and platforms at Flash in The Can 2011 (FITC) in Amsterdam.

In full force at SXSW, Adobe demos future technology. See audience reaction to Dreamweaver sneak peeks, with a huge focus on jQuery Mobile development.

Greg Rewis interviews Adobe software developer Christian Cantrell about cross-platform multiscreen development and afterward solicits reactions from those who attended Christian’s SXSW workshop.

Join Adobe Evangelist Duane Nickull as he shows a step by step walkthrough to build a SlashDot RSS android application. In Part one the basic service connection and displaying objects is explained as well as the basic architecture.

This episode completes the code development process for the SlashDot RSS monitor application for Google Android devices using Flash Builder. Some best architectural practices are shared.

Danny Winokur, VP at Adobe, discusses Flash Player 10.2 including Stage Video and performance updates, as well as upcoming 3D functionality.

Join host Duane Nickull as he illustrates the differences in developing mobile applications with two different Flex SDK's (4.1 and 4.5). A link to the source code for both projects is available in the video.

Watch the process of designing and developing a rich Internet application based on the Adobe Flash Platform — as it happens. Learn how to keep the process on track (on time and on budget) using WorkflowLab in conjunction with Adobe Creative Suite tools. Michelle Yaiser and Leif Wells will walk you through best practices for this process, including the preparation of a design in Illustrator, adding interactivity in Flash Catalyst, and connecting an application to live data in Flash Builder.

We'll take Flex, add some garnish (parsley), mix in design patterns, and serve piping hot on multiple screens. Join developers from the Adobe@Adobe team as they take you on a whirlwind exploration of developing production multiscreen applications. You'll laugh, you'll cry — no, wait.... You'll walk away from this interactive session with practical knowledge to take your AIR applications to the next level. This is not a session on theory but on enterprise-proven techniques for delivering your AIR application across multiple screens, big and small.

Investigate Flex application development from a performance perspective and learn techniques to improve and optimize your Flex and ActionScript code. Join members of the Flex engineering team as they identify common performance pitfalls that new — and even advanced — developers run into, and share best practices for creating the most optimal Flex and ActionScript applications. We'll share tips and tricks for desktop and mobile development, as well as methodologies to identify and fix problems areas during development.

Explore advanced techniques in using the data-centric development features of Adobe Flash Builder to build an application with Flex and a server-side technology. You'll gain an understanding of how to take advantage of features in Flash Builder, including client-side data management, data paging, and reusing value objects. This session introduces you to topics like customizing generated code to work with MVC frameworks, deploying applications developed using DCD, and lots of other tips and tricks.

Get a primer on what it takes to design, develop, and deploy a web app for mobile devices. Join Paul Dorian and Jorge Taylor as they share what they learned from their designer-developer collaboration on a recent mobile web app project. They'll take you through their workflow, highlighting the unexpected discoveries, key challenges, and lessons learned along the way. If you're a web designer or developer interested in migrating your skills to the mobile world but you're not quite sure how to get started, then this session is for you.

Learn about one company’s migration from Java thick client applications to rich Internet applications for powering their government customer's mission-critical workflow. This session will explore migrating complex enterprise applications from Java to Flex as well as building and deploying some of the most high-profile applications in ongoing military operations around the world today using Adobe RIA technologies. You'll find out how Intelligent Software Solutions has developed and deployed a large enterprise RIA system to support the ability to measure the success of stabilization and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Learn how the next version of the Flex SDK will enable developers to easily create applications for the desktop and mobile devices. This session will show you how you can use the new mobile features in the SDK together with familiar Flex concepts to build mobile applications. You will learn about the new mobile-specific components and capabilities being added to the Flex SDK, as well as learn tips for optimizing both the design and performance of your application as it works across different devices.

Learn about a broad range of tools, plug-ins, and solutions that fit into your existing enterprise development workflow and help you build large-scale, complex Flex applications. Join various Adobe ecosystem partners as they explain how to use their products with Flex, from concept and development to testing and deployment all the way to post-production diagnostics and analytics.

Join Aaron Pederson and James Polanco, Flex component development experts, as they walk you through the inner workings of the Flex framework and explain how to write extensible, rich, and highly performing components. They will cover the new Spark component and skinning architecture and how to use it correctly to build Spark components for use in Flex applications.

Learn how to develop games based on Flash technology and the open source PushButton Engine. PushButton Engine is a framework that's designed for creating a new generation of games for Flash. PushButton Engine not only makes it easy to build great games, but it also allows the development of new functionality and components to improve the world of gaming for everyone thanks to its open source nature.

Learn how the combination of Day's leading web solutions and Adobe's enterprise portfolio provides a unique opportunity to developers: a unified web content and application delivery platform. By introducing web content management, digital asset management, and social collaboration to Adobe’s product portfolio, the solution offers developers an impressive set of capabilities to create, manage, distribute, and monetize content while delivering the best experience possible. Learn why open development is the cornerstone of Day's R&D strategy for web content management and how it can help software development organizations design more adaptive systems and leverage the power of virtual communities.

Former Adobe Technical Evangelist Ted Patrick shows how easy it is to publish a Flash project to the Google Nexus One and Droid 2 by Motorola, and also gives a trick for taking different screen sizes into account when designing your app.

At the Adobe MAX conference, thousands of designers, developers and business leaders converge to discover the next wave of opportunities fueled by the explosion of rich content and applications across multiple screens, the merging of digital content and commerce, and workflows that bring design and development together.

With K-12 School Site Licenses, Adobe provides affordable software and supporting resources for teaching students the 21st century skills they need. Real-world examples provide guidance for implementing CS5 curriculum, certification and professional development.

Dave Watts from Fig Leaf Software demonstrates the use of ColdFusion 9 ORM to generate value objects and gateways in CF, and how those can be translated into AS3 classes in Flex.

Adobe Platform Evangelist Duane Nickull discusses how to set up a development environment to work with the LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 in a Java project.

Nate Beck from Universal Mind takes you through the basics of game development on the Flash Platform. From setting up development environments to the basics of game development using the open source PushButton game engine.

Evangelist Duane Nickull demonstrates how to build a Flex 4 application to integrate a LiveCycle Data Services Java (tm) App Server using Model Driven Development.

Arno Gourdol, from the Adobe AIR team, gives an overview of what's in store for Adobe AIR on desktops and devices.

Learn how to set up your development environment to invoke LiveCycle ES2 services using the Java API’s including user and *.jar configuration.

Kevin Hoyt introduces the concept of process serving, which mixes business process orchestration and service-oriented architecture, creating more scalable development teams.

In this episode, you'll get a quick overview of Fiber and its role in supporting model-driven development in LiveCycle Data Services 3 and Flash Builder 4.

Optimize your design and development processes with these workflows for interactive content and RIA development.

Learn how this large district gains huge time and cost savings with online meetings and training for 12,000 teachers and 650 administrators.

See how you can create rich mobile applications that run on tens of millions of Nokia devices and more than 30 models globally. With Nokia Web Runtime, you can use your web development and design skills in your favorite web authoring tools.

See how the brand new model-driven development feature of LiveCycle Data Services ES allows you to build and maintain data-driven Flex applications with an unprecedented level of productivity and flexibility.

See how Howest University College West Flanders in Belgium implements Flash Platform design and development skills in a brand-new course program called Devine. Learn how the program prepares students for standout professional careers.

Learn how to integrate support for accessibility with your regular web development practice. This session examines what is involved in supporting accessibility standards such as Section 508 and the W3C's WCAG 2.0, and more.

Explore new techniques for interacting with software and devices with the latest capabilities of the Flash Platform. Multitouch experiences are taking the software world by storm, from the 2008 election night coverage to the latest bars and clubs.

Adobe Platform Evangelist Terry Ryan shows how to use the onMissingMethod event handler to create CFCs that respond to unwritten method calls.

Learn how to apply the fundamental concepts of Test Driven Development (TDD) to JavaScript using YUI's unit testing framework.

In this tutorial, we start with a broader definition of design and discuss its importance. Using a framework to structure the conversation, we survey the various aspects of design and how they play out, for better or worse, in your product.

Join Clayne Robison and Gabor Vida as they discuss cross-device deployment is the new developer reality.

Join Robert Hoekman as he explains how smart people doing dumb things can be funny. Lots of smart people doing the same dumb thing in your web application isn't funny.

Join Eric Garza and Peter Martin, Adobe consultants - who are using Cairngorm on large-scale Flex, Adobe AIR, and LiveCycle ES projects - as they demonstrate a few of their great tips and tricks.

Join Gever Tulley and Joel Brandt as they share new strategies for increasing the level of innovation in your development work as they explore the idea that play might just be the ultimate development tool.

Join Sun Sachs of AOL as he shares real-world business and product strategies for developing, distributing, and monetizing applications on Adobe AIR for multiple platforms and devices.

Commercial photographer Kevin Ames shows you how to optimize and fix your images in the development module using the graduated filter tube in Lightroom 2.

Experience Design Manager Matt Snow provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Adobe XD Mobile and Devices team, and demos several applications currently under development.

Explore the various types of advertising, such as the contextual advertising Tony Wright delves into in this class. This tutorial is part of the Search Engine Marketing Course at xTrain.

Adobe Product Manager Steven Heintz and Senior Principal Scientist Mark Anders provide a sneak peek at Thermo, code name for a product currently under development at Adobe.

Keywords are what guide users to your site or business on any major search engine, as explored by Tony Wright. This tutorial is part of the Search Engine Marketing: Pay Per Click Advertising Course at xTrain.

Giovanni Gallucci explores the realm of traditional media available for marketing, promotion and analytics for your business. This tutorial is part of the How to Podcast Course at xTrain.

Explore the user interface design and its purpose in this tutorial with Caleb Jenkins. This tutorial is part of the Developers & Designers Guide to Communication Course at xTrain.

Discover your passions to create the most interesting podcasts with these tips from Giovanni Gallucci. This tutorial is part of the How to Podcast Course at xTrain.

Join Caleb Jenkins as he delves into the differences between designers and developers, and how they can survive and thrive together.