Previously I discussed the process of implementing a custom chrome in Adobe AIR, with this post I’ll delve into how I created the assets I used in Beer Near Here Desktop. In particular I’ll discuss how I acquired all the beer glass images necessary to create the loading animation for Beer Near Here Desktop.
If you’ve been reading along you’ll know that…I haven’t posted anything in awhile. Hopefully this post will make up for that a bit. Today I’ll be writing about using custom chrome (sometimes called ‘skins’) with AIR. A quick Google search will pull up quite a few resources on this but I noticed that most of [...]
After laying down the plan for this project I spent quite a bit of time with the setup in Flex Builder. If you’ve read my post, Flex Builder Optimization and You, you’ll know that I’ve done a bit of reading on setting up Flex projects for efficient work flows, particularly compile times, and I’ve come [...]
As anyone who’s spent some time writing software knows: planning is paramount. Mapping out all the features of an app and how they fit together just makes life so much easier. Since Beer Near Here is a personal project I also factored in my own goals that don’t necessarily have anything to do with how [...]
One of the coolest aspects of Beer Near Here, in my humble opinion, is the desktop version. Beer Near Here is primarily a website about information, specifically, displaying information in a legible manner. That sort of site doesn’t mesh well with a cool, out-there design or lots of Flash or Javascript effects, which is why [...]