Is there anything that can be done to optimize existing SWFs for the oncoming wave of retina displays? Or, is there anyway to prepare for retina displays when creating new SWFs? From what I’ve seen and read, the SWFs look pretty poor.
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Is there anything that can be done to optimize existing SWFs for the oncoming wave of retina displays? Or, is there anyway to prepare for retina displays when creating new SWFs? From what I’ve seen and read, the SWFs look pretty poor.
Flex 4.6 supports MultiDPIBitmapSource which would provide a way to supply bitmap optimized for different screen density. You may read an in-depth discussion over this link.
In general, if your bitmaps are used as icon, logo display, where animation or transformation are limited to moving, panning and clipping, and your bitmap it is not scaled, you would achieve optimal display result and descent performance. Vector assets’ performance is less predictable compared to bitmap for this usage.
However, bitmaps are not silver bullets to all solutions. They would adversely impact performance as soon as you involve any rotation, distortion or scaling (zoom in and out), this is because the system would have to do a lot more calculation to relocate every pixels, which is a lot more involved compared to vectors.
Stage3D is also worth looking into, but if you are usage is primarily 2D, wisely choose between MultiDPIBitmapSource and vector graphics could be a much simpler solution.