Post to TwitPic from Adobe AIR

TwitPic is a service that lets you share photos on Twitter by generating a tiny url to the image being uploaded. The flash.filesystem.File class allows Adobe AIR to post an image to TwitPic. By specifying the username, password and posting method it is possible to submit a query to the TwitPic API. PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: [...]

SQLite in AIR

When doing research on integrating a SQLite Database into AIR I came across the following useful resources: Learn what SQLite is About: Introduction to the SQLite Database - David Tucker Getting Started: Introduction to SQLite in Adobe AIR Tool for Creating and Modifying SQLite Databases: SQLite Firefox Extension By using a SQLite database it will [...]

YouTube in AIR

The YouTube video player is currently written in ActionScript 2.0 and integrating it into an AIR application requires a few additional steps. There are many solutions available that reverse engineer the URL to get access to the source video FLV, however, this breaks the terms of service and is not officially supported by YouTube or [...]

Mash up applications with Adobe AIR

When doing some research on integrating YouTube videos into Adobe AIR applications I came across this presentation. Marco Casario talks about the design patterns and technologies that can be used to aggregate social media networks in AIR. The Adobe AIR Cookbook will be out in November 2008 and will have more information on these topics. [...]