posted by Chris Black on February 2nd, 2011 under ActionScript, AIR, Android
Using Flash Builder Burrito and the Flash IDE you can export your ActionScript projects to three mobile platforms without any change in code! Let's take a look at how to make this possible. Before we get started, here is a video with one of my demo apps running on all three devices: Multi-screen: The variety [...]
posted by Chris Black on June 5th, 2009 under AIR
Attention AIR developers: Are you interested in learning about caching images in binary format, SQLite database migration, re-using existing view components, memory fragmentation and general tips / tricks about developing your application using Adobe AIR? If you answered YES than you should attend Minh Vu and Chris Black's session at Flashbelt on June 8th at [...]
posted by Chris Black on March 24th, 2009 under AIR, Uncategorized
"A lifestreaming thing that lets you see it all in one place" Skimmer. The next Adobe AIR app and the hard work of many individuals over the past 6 months. It has been amazing to see this application turn from design into reality. This is a summary of the technologies used and some of the [...]
posted by Chris Black on February 23rd, 2009 under ActionScript, AIR, Flex, Other
Problem: The TwitPic API does not currently support outgoing requests and the image source from amazon aws contains an AWS AccessKeyId, expiration time stamp, and signature. This would normally require a regular expression to rip the source JPG path out of the HTML. Ripping the source out of the HTML is a bit of a [...]
