Make sure you don’t miss following webinars this week prepared by Adobe Platform Evangelists. All of them will be live online using Screen Sharing technology via Adobe Connect Pro.

Especially if you are regular reader of my blog and interested in P2P, don’t miss Advanced P2P Programming on Friday - it will be summary of all my recent articles.

This week:

• Summer Cocktail: Doctrine 2, Zend Framework, Flex, and Flash Builder (Mihai Corlan)- Tuesday, August 24
• Advanced P2P programming in Flash (Tom Krcha) – Friday, August 27

Next week:

• Presentation Model pattern with Flex and Swiz Framework (Piotr Walczyszyn) – Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Register for free.

I am very happy that the community is getting more and more involved in P2P. I told you, it has endless possibilities!

AS3-P2P-LIB
AS3-P2P-LIB is a pure ActionScript 3.0 Library by Dominic Graefen that helps Flash developers get started with P2P easily.

All Classes | Example | Project page at GitHub

P2P Video Calls on Android

My fellow evangelist Mark Doherty built a great demo app using P2P and AIR 2.5 for Android. Watch this video, where he shows how it works. And btw: I should really teach him how to pronounce my name Mark, you are going to get a lesson at MAX 2010!

Check Mark’s blog post for further information.

On August 16th – 17th I’ll be in Barcelona, Spain.

Don’t miss the next Prague Adobe User Group Meeting on Tuesday 13th July 18:00-20:00.

I really recommend this meeting as it’s a great chance to meeting an independent ActionScript expert from USA, ask advanced questions and so on.

Chris Scott is an Enterprise Software Consultant in the Philadelphia area with over ten years of Java, ColdFusion, ActionScript and Flex experience as well as a strong interest in the implementation of open source solutions. Chris is the lead developer of the Swiz Framework and the ColdSpring Framework, including the first Aspect Oriented Programming framework for ColdFusion.

Address: Adobe Praha, Radlická 714/113a

More info in Czech at Viktor’s blog.

Meeting info at Adobe Groups

Adobe Czech Republic in cooperation with the youth conference JuniorInternet (by Together CZ) is opening an innovative contest for Czech and Slovak developers to celebrate mobile versions of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR for Android. Enter and win a Google Nexus One or Creative Suite 5!

What can you win

1st Place - Google Nexus One (Froyo) + goodies
2nd Place - Google Nexus One (Froyo) + goodies
3rd Place - Creative Suite 5 WebPremium + goodies
4th Place - Flash CS5 Professional + goodies
5th Place - Flash CS5 Professional + goodies
6th Place - Flash Builder 4 Professional + goodies
7th Place - Flash Builder 4 Professional + goodies
8th Place - Flash Builder 4 Professional + goodies
9th - 10th Place - Goodies

Goodies: Adobe Branded T-shirts, Knives, USB sticks, Flash/Flex AS3 Reference Wall Posters …

How can you enter

Possibility #1:
Build an app in AIR for Android or Flash Player 10.1 with a user interface optimized for mobile experience
Resolution: 800×480
Current Flex usage is not recommended for mobile apps; instead use pure ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS5 Professional.
Recommendation: Games, Utilities

or

Possibility #2:
Build an AIR 2.0 desktop app
No restrictions.
Tips: Widgets, Games, Utilities
Try using new AIR 2.0 APIs like ServerSocket, DatagramSocket, P2P, NativeProcess, Multi-Touch
*You can build your AIR 2.0 desktop app for this contest using Flash/Flex/AS3 or HTML5/JS/CSS3.

Submit your app
When you are done, post a video screencast of you application to YouTube.com and send us a link to a site or your .air file with YouTube link for a review.
E-mail: tomkr [at-sign] adobe.com
There is no age limit of a creator. Anyone can enter the contest.

Originality note
The most original apps will win. Try combining latest trends such as Facebook, Twitter, GPS, maps, with latest AIR 2.0 features such as multi-touch, accelerometer, audio/video NetStream appendBytes access and so on.
Important: The app must be built originally for this contest, but we surely encourage it’s further usage afterwards. So keep in mind, that it can also be part of your new project you are working on - the idea is to leverage the latest available possibilities of AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1.

Get AIR for Android
AIR for Android is currently in prerelease. You can sign-up here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/android/. AIR for Android enables you to build standalone apps, which you will be able to distribute over Android Market in the future. AIR for Android adds significant features to existing Flash possibilities on mobile devices.

Deadline

The end of summer - 03:09 September 23rd 2010

Development tips

Using certain development techniques can help your application run faster. Go through these links and learn how to optimize.

-Watch Optimizing web content for Flash Player 10.1 [ by Thibault Imbert ] - useful tips for making your application use less CPU and memory
- Read Optimizing Performance for the Flash Platform
- Read Presentation: Quick as a Flash by Grant Skinner

Inspiring articles:

- Read What’s new about HTML, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript in AIR 2?
- Read HTML Developer’s Guide for Adobe AIR
- Read AIR 2.0 Web Server using the New Server Socket API
- Read Using the AIR 2 NativeProcess API to create a screen recorder

Meet the Czech Adobe User Group

Go to AdobeGroup.cz - become a member, attend free events, meet experts, show your projects, discuss.

Got a question

Ask in the comments of this article or send me e-mail to tomkr [at sign] adobe.com

Get inspired

See what others built with mobile Flash. Go to m.flash.com (optimized for mobile access) and check it out.

AIR for Android Wireless Slot Car Gas Pedal

AIR application on Android to control a plane

Innovation and the Adobe Flash Platform

3D Plane game in AIR on Android

Use Flash Builder to develop AIR apps for Android

Good Luck!

It’s in Czech only - but still worth of linking for my Czech readers.

Direct link to Vimeo

Link to Digit.cz with discussion:
Digit #48 - Bleskově (rozuměj ve Flashi) s Tomem Krchou z Adobe

I gave a presentation on Mapping and Geolocation with the Flash Platform today at Flash and the City. Below I’ve embedded the slides and you can download the PDF here. When I get some downtime today I’ll be uploading my demos as well.

See the sneak peek video. We already have a couple more apps, this is just a taste. Stay tuned for more!!!

btw: total size of this Pong game - 9KB

Click here for full quality video

We’re helping out with a series of training seminars for PHP developers who want to learn more about Flex. It’s a great way to dive in and see all of the new stuff with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 and how to get it up and running with your PHP back ends.

Here’s the full city list.