Detect Pen Tablet Pressure using an AIR Native Extension

This native extension allows you to detect the input pressure of compatible pen tablet devices. This post includes a video demo of the code running on the Eee Slate and a downloadable ANE that you can use without installing Visual Studio. Problem: A big thanks to the Magical Hobo for creating the c++ code for [...]

iOS, Android and BlackBerry in a Single Click with ANT

***Update: Use package.blackberry OR install.blackberry when running the ANT task, using both will overwrite the BAR file and remove signing. Verify your BAR is signed by renaming it from app.bar to app.zip, extract and ensure you have META-INF/AUTHOR.EC and META-INF/RDK.EC included in the zip.*** Create your market ready AIR apps for iOS, Android and the [...]

E4X XML Cheat Sheet

Parsing XML is one of the major pain points in development. Without exact syntax you're left scratching your head. After visiting the same collection of links over and over, I've decided to consolidate the more useful syntax into a single post. All examples can be used with both JavaScript and ActionScript as they are both [...]

Link Directly to the Mobile Android Market

With one line of code you can open up the mobile Android market from within your app! You can open the market to a specific application or to a page listing all of your apps. This is a great way to cross sell your applications and limit the number of clicks for a user to [...]