Starling actually celebrates its tenth birthday this year – isn’t that incredible? I can still vividly remember my excitement when I discovered the email from Adobe’s Thibault Imbert in my inbox, with his proposal of porting my Objective-C framework, Sparrow, over to the Flash API and the (then) brand-new Stage3D...

In the blog article accompanying the previous Starling update, I wrote that Adobe should hopefully soon decide how to move on with AIR. Well, shortly after that post, it actually happened: Adobe transitioned support and future development of AIR to Harman. That’s one topic of today’s blog post; the other...

As I mentioned in the previous blog post, our no-fuzz backend is sadly reaching the end of its lifetime. Flox will shut down on August 1st, 2020. Some of you are using Flox purely for its simple analytics and logging capabilities. If that’s the case, I just want to assure...

First things first: the reason for this blog post is a major heads-up: I’m going to have to shut down Flox around August 1st, 2020. Yikes. I’m aware that this might mean a major hassle for the remaining users of Flox – depending on how much use you make of...

There’s no denying it: Starling has seen easier years than 2018/2019! The Flash Player’s end-of-life is looming ahead, and Adobe, it seems, still hasn’t quite figured out what they want to do with AIR. In other words, it’s time for a quick … Recap and Outlook Adobe started to fund...

Summer is coming to the northern hemisphere, and it has become kind of a ritual to push out a new Starling release before it gets too hot, right? The new release comes with one major addition that has been on my to-do list for a long time, but I never...

The year is almost over and many of you will soon be going into a well-earned holiday season. Before you leave, I’d like to hand you a small gift — a new release of Starling! The update itself (we’re now at version 2.3) focuses mainly on enhancements of the text...