Prerequisites: – an iOS device. – Flash professional CS5 – an iPhone dev. license/certificate that allows you to package flash and deploy on iOs. After playing around with the flash packager for iPhone that ships with Flash CS5, I thought I’d share some information about one of the most interesting aspects of mobile development: Location [...]
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Flash Packager for iPhone: Using the Geolocation class
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash, iOs /
Tags: development, geolocation, gps, ios, iphone, ipod, location based services
Adding swipe gestures to your mobile Flex application
With the Flex 4.5 SDK (aka Hero) you can now create some very nifty mobile applications to run on Android enabled devices as well as on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Now, one of the features you’ll use on any touch enabled device is the swipe gesture. You can use this gesture to move things around or [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flex, Mobile /
Tags: Flex Hero, gestures, swipe, touch screen, TransformGestureEvent
Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 released
Adobe has released a new version for their 2 runtimes, Flash Player and AIR. Naturally, with those releases come new and improved features as well. Let’s take a look at what makes it worth to upgrade to the next version. Let’s start with the new Flash Player. You can download it here and it’s finally [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash, Flex /
Tags: AIR 2, Dynamic streaming, Flash Player, global error handling, Microphone
FATC – AIR 2.0 workshop review
OK, so now we’re done with the AIR 2.0 workshop here. Things were really looking good and we had some great questions and responses from the audience. Let me make a small summary of what we covered. Peter Elst was up first and he talked about the basic stuff in AIR. Since the audience was [...]
Solving the “missing AIR application XML file” error in Flash Builder
When creating an AIR project, you automatically get an XML configuration file for your application, which contains the initial width and height, the available icons and the indication whether or not the application uses a custom chrome (amongst other settings). This XML file has the same name as the application itself, followed by “-app.xml”. OK, [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash Builder /
Tags: AIR, app.xml, application, code-behind, Flash Builder
Using conditional binding in Flex and AIR applications
Everyone knows by now that variable binding is something that is constantly used in Flex and AIR applications. The simplest way of using this feature is making use of the [Bindable] metadata tag. However, there’s a second way that is commonly used and that is the <mx:Binding> tag. This one is used especially in combination [...]
Category: AIR, Flex, LiveCycle Data Services /
Tags: binding, binding methods, BindingUtils, conditional
Ben Forta is coming to town
For those of you who don’t know Ben Forta, he’s the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books about ColdFusion (nad other technologies). He’s also the director of the evangelism team. Every once in a while you get the chance to meet with him at some ColdFusion event, but not often in [...]
Category: AIR, ColdFusion, Conference, Flash Builder /
Tags: AIR, Ben Forta, ColdFusion, event, Flash Builder
View state transition problem: effects don't play
If you are using view states and want to apply certain transitions between these states, there are some things to keep in mind. When adding components to a state, the transition effects (also called behaviors) are applied to that component while adding it. So this means that the effects will be visible during initialization of [...]
Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst betas available
Hey everyone, I’ve just found out that the first beta version of both Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst are available on labs.adobe.com. Flash Builder has some very useful inprovements, like source refactoring, framework package explorer, … The Flash Catalyst version is somewhat different from the version that was distributed at MAX last year, but [...]
SQLite database updates: the necessary heavyweight solution
A while ago, I’ve written my first real, technically complex AIR application for a client. Like I mentioned in another post then (http://blog.multimediacollege.be/2009/03/using-the-local-encrypted-database-in-air-theory-and-practise/) , the theory and practice of the SQLite database that is shipped with AIR don’t always match. And so, now I had to find out another annoying thing about this very very [...]
