Often happens that customers require to implement transitions between pages, nice animations, etc. also in a mobile web sites.
This kind of effects usually belong to Flash web sites but unfortunately on iOS devices there is still no support for Flash. Thanks to “Stevie” in fact the web on the mobile is growing up without the Flash Player but the request the customers have are always the same: nice transitions, cool effects, etc.
The result is that we have to use technologies that are pretty new and without a strong background like Flash to satisfy customer’s request.
Anyway, let’s see hot to create a transition effect on an iOS device with CSS and the webkit transitions.
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The turning point

In the last months of 2010 Apple has removed many restrictions in its developer agreement and published guidelines about the apps it will accept and reject.

Between these restrictions there was also the impossibility to submit to the appstore apps built using the packager for iPhone.

Flash on the iPhone ? really ?!

No, not really.

This is made possible by a Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) compiler infrastructure developed to understand AS3 code and able to output native ARM assembly code.

Porting to iPhone/ipad your AS3 projects is pretty easy and through the Packager for iPhone and Air for Android you can theoretically develop cross-platform application that looks exactly the same regardless the device it runs on.
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Hi all, what I’ve been into lately is testing some tools for getting a descent cross platform development framework. What I’ve been testing most was PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium, Golden Gecko and Whoop. The last 2 are not open platforms neither do they target developers (but rather designers) so I won’t mention them any further. For those of you who may be interested you may contact the guys for a demo. The first 2 are open source. Read more »

Watch over 100 in-depth technical sessions from WWDC 2010. You’ll learn advanced coding techniques that will show you how to enhance the capabilities of your applications with the revolutionary technologies in iOS and Mac OS X. Download the videos, then take them with you on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad to watch anytime, anywhere.

Use the Apple ID and password you used to register as an Apple Developer to log in and download WWDC 2010 session videos and slides from iTunes.
http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2010/

Few days ago Sencha just released the first HTML5 framework targeted for mobile devices: Sencha Touch.

As stated on Sencha’s website:

It comes with a comprehensive UI widget library, complete touch event management with CSS transitions and an extensive data package.

If you have an HTML5-ready browser, you can take a look the demos here.

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking. The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s information was compromised.

It doesn’t stop there. According to the data we were given by the web security group that exploited vulnerabilities on the AT&T network, it seems that 114,000 user accounts have been compromised, although it’s possible that confidential information about every iPad 3G owner in the U.S. has been exposed.

Read here the full story.

Apple has unveiled its new iPhone 4 at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco. Below some of the most important features and innovations.

• Design: The all new iPhone 4 is just 9.3mm thick and is 24 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS.
• Display: With the new iPhone 4, Apple debuts new display dubbed as ‘Retina Display’. This 3.5-inch multi-touch display offers 960×640 pixel resolution at 326 pixels per inch.
• Processor: Apple A4 System-on-Chip processor used in iPad.
• Camera: 5 megapixel sensor with backside illuminated sensor and LED Flash.
• Gyroscope: 6-axis motion sensing.
• Battery life: increased by 40%.

Other features: Quadband HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi (802.11n), Assisted GPS, Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, iBooks App as free download, Microsoft’s search engine Bing officially added to search engine options, Micro SIM just like the ones used in iPad.

The phone will be available in white or black, retailing at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for 32GB. They go on sale June 24th. Read more of the Apple iPhone 4 here.

Want to see Froyo (Android 2.2) running on the iPhone? If so, take a look at the ideo below:

Gadgets DNA have the instructions on how to load Froyo onto your handset, but don’t expect the world just yet: neither sound nor WiFi are working at the moment, but youcan send SMS. Which is good, I guess. (via MobileCrunch)

Smokescreen is a new open-source project aimed at converting Flash to JavaScript/HTML5 to run where it previously couldn’t and better interoperate with webpages where it previously could. With Smokescreen you can reach new platforms without learning any new tools; your Flash is automatically converted to JavaScript/HTML5.

Smokescreen will soon be released for free under an open source license. I tested some demos with my iPhone 3GS and, while performances on the iPad seems to render very well, on the iPhone there’s still some work to do. I really look forward to test the tool after the release, so, stay tuned!

Good news for iPad developers that want to monetize their apps: AdMob has just announced the availability of its SDK for the new Apple device.

Developers can then download and use the AdMob SDK in their iPad apps, just like they do with iPhone. The supported ad sizes for iPad will be: 300×250, 728×90, and 468×60 pixels. The SDK is available, as usual, on AdMob website.

Another interesting detail from today’s announcement is the experiments that AdMob is doing with iPad ads realized by using HTML5, and that could open the door to a new generation of interactive, immersive ad experiences.