Flashmo, a well-known website sharing free Flash files, has recently released new open source Flash resources.

They are all built with AS3, the galleries have touch support on mobile phones and, besides using them, their sources are a good way of improving skills.

One of them is an mp3 player which can display a playlist and play the items one-by-one or it has a "mini" version which can still play multiple songs but doesn't show the playlist.

The list is fed with an XML file that has the info about the song + artist names and the location of the mp3 file (so, files can be located in different folders).

Another resource is a coverflow-like image slider where you can drag (with touch support) and browse through the items.

Every image can point to different URLs and the database is again an XML file.

And, a 3D spiral gallery which is built with Papervision3D and Tweener.

You can drag up/down or left/right to move around thumbnails, use mouse wheel to zoom in/out, double-click on stage to toggle fullscreen.

For a complete customization, settings can be edited from an XML file.

There are also other new resources like 3D curve gallery or 3D touch ring.

Google has recently announced the launch of Google Swiffy which is a free to use web application for converting SWF files into HTML5.

It supports many common SWF features such as vector graphics, embedded fonts, images, timeline animation and basic ActionScript 2.0.

The output works only in WebKit browsers as it includes some SVG features that are not supported by other browsers.

The usage is very simple: just upload the SWF file and Swiffy will display the HTML5 result where you can "save as" the page and insert into any website with an <iframe> tag.

P.S. The code generated by Swiffy is pretty complex and hard to edit. You'll still need the .FLA file for editing the source.

After Flash being blocked by iOS and the increasing popularity of HTML5-JavaScript with the new features offered, it was expected that Adobe will come up with something new to help Flash survive.

Here it is: Wallaby; it is a new tool/technology by Adobe for converting FLA files into HTML5.

Using this new tool, designers/developers will still be able to keep creating with Flash and their HTML-converted artwork will be compatible with any device including iOS.

Wallaby is still experimental, doesn't support 100% of Flash features but it seems to be a "very good news" for Flash fans.

flashmo.com, a website which provides free and premium Flash templates, is sharing 3 beautiful and free Flash image sliders.

They can be configured from a XML file and, as the source files (.FLA) are included, further editing is possible.

Settings include, auto-play being on/off, its duration and transition effects. Also, dimensions of every slider can be set within the HTML tags.

Bar Slider

Images displayed change with an effect of sliding bars.

They can slide vertically or horizontally and from left-to-right or vice-versa.

Grid Slider

Grid Slider has a transition effect which divides the images into the defined number of grids.

The grid effect has multiple types from sliding to fading ones.

Accordion

This Flash slider functions like the well-known accordion menus.

Compared to others, it doesn't have any prev-next buttons and images can be browsed by simply clicking on any accordion leaf wanted.

All sliders can be used both in personal and commercial projects.

XML Photo Album is a free Flash gallery application with multi-gallery support.

It can display images, audios (mp3), videos (flv) & switching between galleries or thumbnails is possible by hovering the app.

The gallery is managed by editing a XML file & that’s all it requires for configuration.

XML Photo Album comes with the .fla source which makes it possible to customize & improve further.

Flapi is an open source Flash gallery for displaying Flickr photo sets/images.

It can be easily integrated into any webpage or a Flash application.

It shows you the photo sets -which you can select from- to view the images within.

Flapi is very flexible. It can be configured in many ways from a XML file, like:

• which sets to be displayed
• Random play
• Rotate period
• Show/hide navigation
• Colors, borders 6 more..

You can always personalize it more as the .fla source file can be downloaded.