Android

AIR for Android: Transient Recorder

A mobile audio recording, preview, and trans-coding application. Encodes your recording to WAV or MP3 and saves to your Android device SD Card. Simple 3-step recording process; record, preview, and save. That’s it! Grab it for $0.99 from the Android Market! UPDATE: Grab “Transient Recorder LIMITED” for free. Limited to 5 second recordings and only …

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Something New – I’m Writing a Book!

About a month ago, a representative from Packt Publishing contacted me to gauge my interest in writing a book on the Adobe Flash Platform and Android operating system. After speaking with her and nailing things down with the assistance of Acquisition Editor Wilson D’souza, a contract was put together and I’m now well into writing …

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Using FlexORM in AIR for Android

I’ve published the source of my AIR for Android Flex 4.5 “Hero” example application “My Shit-List!” to a GitHub repository. One of the really neat things in this example, aside from the new Flex mobile stuff, is the integration of FlexORM in the project to simplify my use of SQLite databases. FlexORM is an Object …

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Mobile Outlook 2010 – Where Are We?

Roundtable presentation at the Teaching with Technology Conference, Boulder, CO. August 11, 2010 – 11:10 a.m. We are currently experiencing what will probably be the largest technological shift since the introduction of the internet onto our campuses for widespread use. Powerful mobile devices are expected to increase at a tremendous rate at universities and elsewhere …

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AIR for Android Apps Mention: Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine

If you are at all interested in Adobe AIR for Android, you’ll want to check out the June 2010 issue of Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine which features a nice rundown by Lee Graham. I catalog this here because two of the prototype applications I’ve developed through the initial pre-release program have been referenced within: …

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AIR for Android: Expanded View of “StudyShuffler”

I mentioned before that while most people in the AIR for Android prerelease program are porting their iPhone applications over from Packager for iPhone projects to AIR for Android, I’ve been working more or less from scratch on my projects. Last week, I published a short video demonstrating an educational application called “StudyShuffler”. While it …

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A New Era of Openness and Collaboration

Something is happening… a shift in thinking. A movement to embrace the best technologies available to provide developers with the most compelling platforms, and users with the most pleasant of experiences. A shift away from single gatekeeper systems and toward the wide open planes of freedom and choice. I’m thankful, and grateful, to be a …

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