Category Archives: Android

Flex/AIR on Devices: From Flash Builder to the Amazon App Store

This post is a part of my series “One Developer Platform, Many Devices“. In this post, we will focus on the workflow of getting your APK from Flash Builder into the Amazon Appstore.    First, review the process for building an Android APK file within Flash Builder.  Once you have your APK generated, you’re ready to […]

Flex/AIR on Devices: From Flash Builder to the Google Android Market

This post is a part of my series “One Developer Platform, Many Devices“. In this post, we will focus on the workflow of getting your APK from Flash Builder into the Google Android Market.    First, review the process for building an Android APK file within Flash Builder.  Once you have your APK generated, you’re […]

Flex/AIR on Devices: From Flash Builder to Android Ecosystems

This post is a part of my series “One Developer Platform, Many Devices“. In this post, we will cover the workflow for delivering a solution from development in Flash Builder through packaging for various Android ecosystems.  In subsequent posts, this will be followed up with detail for delivering to each individual ecosystem. You can start […]

DC User Groups: One Platform; Many Devices

A quick reminder that I will be speaking at various events over the next week, so come out to one and learn about Flex for mobile devices and cross-platform development strategies. Today I will be speaking at the DC Flex User Group on “Flex for Mobile: One Platform, Lots of Devices” (http://dc-flex.org/topic/flex-mobile-one-platform-lots-devices). In this presentation, […]

Project Awesome

Here’s a little demo I put together that I’m just too excited not to share… Fellow Adobe Evangelist Christophe Coenraets has an awesome Mobile Trader application that highlights the power of LCCS collaboration and realtime information, using Flex for mobile.  I decided to see if that same collaboration example would work with the Stage3D data visualization component […]

Flex & Stage3D Visualization Sample

Stage3D is starting to look incredibly promising for developers. Whether you are targeting mobile, web, or desktop or developing for gaming or data visualization, the future is bright. I was in the Adobe offices in San Francisco last week meeting with the team, and Thibault Imbert showed us some jaw dropping demos… Keep an eye […]

A Single Code Base, Lots of Devices

Here’s a quick teaser for a multi-part series I’m working on: 1 code base, 1 application framework, 4 platforms, 7 devices, 5 ecosystems… Yes, that is correct… 1 codebase, Adobe Flex 1 framework, Adobe AIR 4 platforms iOS Android BlackBerry desktop 7 devices (these are just devices I have): Mac OSX Apple iPhone 4 Apple […]

AIR 3.0 Captive Runtime

If you hadn’t heard yet, Beta 2 of AIR 3.0 and Flash Player 11 are now availabe on Adobe Labs. The AIR 3.0 beta release is sporting some great new features, including hardware accelerated video playback for mobile, iOS background audio, android licensing support, front-facing camera support, encrypted local storage for mobile, H.264 software encoding […]

Molehill (Stage3D) on Mobile

I recently had the opportunity to start playing around with Molehill for mobile (hardware accelerated 3D graphics), and I think it is something that many of you will be very excited about (see video below). Everyone thinks that 3D is just for games, but it’s not… 3D graphics can be used for complex data visualizations, […]