AIR

AIR for Android: OMG This is Cool!

So I’m writing this post a number of days before I’ll have NDA clearance to publish anything regarding Android for AIR. Just want to record my first impressions here! Just got my first app running on my Motorola Droid and am so totally psyched about this! It’s actually unbelievably simple to author and package for […]

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Video: AIR 2.0 NativeProcess Example

I’ve been looking for an opportunity to take advantage of the new flash.desktop.NativeProcess class within AIR 2.0 and was fortunate enough to have a quick project fall into my lap early this week that would serve as the perfect testing ground. If you aren’t familiar with NativeProcess, it basically gives you the ability to interact

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Help Improve Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0*

Okay- Adobe has a great chance to show the world how solid Flash Player and AIR engineering can be. Like any development or engineering team, they have limited resources and need help from the outside world to make these the best releases ever. Tired of “buggy” Flash and “lazy” engineers ruining your browsing experience?** Here

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LiveStreamer AIR Application

I wrote a new AIR app called LiveStreamer available now via the Adobe AIR Marketplace. This started as a simple mechanism to display a live RTMP stream from Flash Media Server to a client machine and related projection system. So… not for broadcast over the web- just sending a live stream from one physical location

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“Student Shuffler” AIR Application

The Student Shuffler AIR application is now available via Adobe AIR Marketplace. The app was built to facilitate a fair and transparent way of organizing classroom presentations whether by group or individual student. The instructor goes in before class and inputs each presenter into the application edit interface. This is saved locally to the internal

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VidLoop at the AIR Marketplace

There are two items to note here. Firstly, Adobe has done an awesome job updating the AIR Marketplace to be much more organized that the previous version. Very nice presentation. Second, my VidLoop AIR application has been approved and is now live at the AIR Marketplace. Very Nice! There are a lot of great apps

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Quick Tip: Display Application Version in your AIR App.

Just a quick tip for those looking to somehow display the AIR application version from the descriptor file. I’ve found it very helpful in troubleshooting is users can say EXACTLY what version of the app they are running. AIR 2.5 and later: private function getAppVersion():String { var appXml:XML = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor; var ns:Namespace = appXml.namespace(); var

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