Project Awesome

Posted: August 31st, 2011 | Author: Andrew | Filed under: AIR, Android, iOS, Mobile | Tags: air, collaboration, lccs, mobile, stage3d | 15 Comments »

Here’s a little demo I put together that I’m just too excited not to share… Fellow Adobe Evangelist Christophe Coenraets has an awesome Mobile Trader application that highlights the power of LCCS collaboration and realtime information, using Flex for mobile. I decided to see if that same collaboration example would work with the Stage3D data visualization component I’ve been playing around with, and guess what: it works fantastic. I’ve given it the nickname “project awesome” b/c it combines realtime collaboration (audio, video & data), Stage3D hardware accelerated graphics, and desktop to mobile paradigms. Check it out below:

If you haven’t already seen Christophe’s Mobile Trader, you can check it out here:

Christophe has made the source of the Mobile Trader application freely available on github, so go download it and creating your own collaborative applications! I know, you *really* want to see Stage3D out in the public… I promise you, it is coming, and it will be enable you to build great apps & games.

I almost forgot to mention: I wrote less than 200 lines of code to create project awesome! It uses the Away3D library, and LCCS… the hard stuff is easy with Flex.

15 Comments on “Project Awesome”

1 JC Lang said at 4:13 AM on September 1st, 2011:
This is fantastic work! Thank you for sharing.
2 Christian said at 8:03 AM on September 1st, 2011:
That’s some wicked performance.

Will Adobe support Stage3D on the Iphone or is this just for android devices?
3 Eduardo said at 10:13 AM on September 1st, 2011:
A well chosen name: it is truly Awesome!
Cannot wait for Stage3D to be available.
4 Andrew said at 10:47 AM on September 1st, 2011:
Once released, it will support both iOS and Android.
5 Christian Johansson said at 3:11 AM on September 2nd, 2011:
That sounds great. Will the Iphone be hardware supported or will it just degrade to the software renderer?
6 Joseph said at 9:27 AM on September 2nd, 2011:
Looking forward!

The rendering seems fantastic! I am curious also on the optimization techniques implemented

Thanks again Christophe.
7 Mike said at 12:06 PM on September 2nd, 2011:
Andrew, I’ve been looking around your blog for samples to play with on the PlayBook since I am dabbling in AS3/Flex development and found your work including Project Awesome and what your doing with Stage3D quite interesting.

But I am pretty new to Flash and am trying to leverage Google Maps on the PlayBook. I found your demo at http://www.tricedesigns.com/portfolio/google3d linked from Google however cannot find a way to contact you (besides here) to request sample source code for your Google Maps 3D demo with zoom and KML loading (that have me very intrigued).

I would be very grateful if you were to reply and apologize that I left this comment in the wrong place (please delete it if needed). Thank you.
8 Remember Adobe Flash? | Gregs Ramblings said at 11:26 PM on September 3rd, 2011:
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9 Andrew said at 10:17 AM on September 7th, 2011:
The iPhone will also be supported, and will be hardware accelerated.
10 Andrew said at 10:54 AM on September 7th, 2011:
Hi Mike, The source for that example is available at: http://www.tricedesigns.com/portfolio/google3d/srcview/index.html
It’s actually not KML, it is just a ground overlay image. However, you might also find some other applicable examples at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/demogallery.html
11 Leng said at 2:03 PM on September 7th, 2011:
Looks great. Seems that IOS is missing from the video. Is Stage3D supported in IOS with the latest Air 3 RC version?
12 Andrew said at 9:22 AM on September 8th, 2011:
iOS support is not available at this time. However when released, this will also be supported and hardware accelerated on Apple’s devices.
13 jason @ Voip said at 9:44 AM on September 8th, 2011:
Awesome is the word!

Can see a great use for that in meetings or in presentations where everyone (probably) has a Smartphone and can see it for themselves in front of their own eyes!

Thanks
14 Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 9/8/2011 | Remote Synthesis said at 2:15 PM on September 8th, 2011:
[...] evangelist Andrew Trice shares details and video of his Project Awesome which is similar to his colleague Christophe Coenraets Mobile Trader application that uses LCCS for [...]
15 Andrew said at 11:25 PM on January 26th, 2012:
I have posted the source code for a desktop port of my mobile Stage3D examples on this blog at:
http://www.tricedesigns.com/2012/01/26/stage3d-flex-demo-w-source/
The only changes were to the Flex SDK targeting the Flash player, instead of targeting the mobile SDK. All Stage3D code is exactly the same.