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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DropFolders is an upcoming AIR 2.0 Windows-only (for now) application which allows a user to set up multiple presets consisting of watch folders, destination folders, and specific arguments for use in HandBrake. The app then polls the watch folders for new files, builds an internal processing queue, hands each file off to the embedded HandBrake
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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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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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One of the really cool additions to Adobe AIR 1.5.2 was the ability to invoke preventDefault() upon a FullScreenEvent when using StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE. I always had a workaround for Windows but my method would always crash the app when run on a Mac. The ability to go full screen and lock that down is essential to
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Just like the sign says… VidLoop 1.4.18 is out on Adobe AIR Marketplace. It’s been a year since I released the initial version (built over last Thanksgiving holiday) and have been working on some revisions in the past few weeks with the intention of getting this new version out as an anniversary marking. Looks like
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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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In reading over the Adobe AIR 1.5.2 Release Notes, the most noticeable change for end-users seems to be a friendlier install screen for signed apps. The AIR application installer panel that displays the publisher identity has been simplified when an application is signed with a chained certificate Sure enough, it is a much more welcoming
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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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After having deployed many AIR apps with self-signed certificates over the past year or so, when I finally got one from a certificate authority I was quite happy to update my apps with it. Not so fast! You can’t update an AIR app that has been signed with a different certificate than a previously installed
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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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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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