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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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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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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One of the many features of the University of Denver’s CourseMedia™ Course Media Management System is a Flash based module that allows students to study images along with metadata within a “matching game” type interface. Expanding upon and simplifying this idea for mobile, I’ve written the initial version of StudyShuffler using AIR for Android. StudyShuffler
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When I was first learning ActionScript 3.0 a few years back, the first thing I did was create a demo app called “Sketcher” which was a pure AS3 sketchpad written using FlashDevelop with the beta Flex 2 SDK. So when I needed a good starting project to work with AIR for Android, I decided to
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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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RIA Radio is a weekly podcast presented by InsideRIA as an open discussion with guests from the community, covering upcoming news and current best practices. In Episode 10, Antonio Holguin discusses agency life, application development workflow, and mobile application design and development. Around 38 minutes in, he mentions the work I’ve been doing with the
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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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There is a lot of exciting news for the Flash Platform community coming out of Barcelona, Spain at the Mobile World Congress. Firstly, Adobe has announced that Flash Player 10.1 is coming for almost all mobile operating systems including Android, the BlackBerry® platform, Symbian® OS, Palm® webOS and Windows Mobile®. Flash Player 10.1 is the
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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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