Adobe AIR 3 includes a great new feature: StageText. Using the normal TextField for text input works just fine, but this new TextField-like class allows you to control your text input more closely (especially on mobile devices) with many options like auto capitalization, software keyboard type, and more. It has its caveats (it’s a separate class, [...]

We were very pleased to hear that Lifehacker.com awarded Klok the titles of "Best Time Tracking App for Mac OSX" and "Best Time Tracking App for Windows". Take a look and see what they had to say about it but nothing beats trying it out for yourself. Download the free version at www.getklok.com and let us know what you think. Now we are not about to just sit back and coast, so we have been working on a new version of the Klokwork Team Console to make using Klok for a whole team much easier. Also on the horizon... updated

Advertise here with BSAIn this tutorial, we will learn how to create AIR Application for Android mobile devices using Flash CS5.5. To complete this Flash tutorials, you will need to have Flash CS5.5, Android SDK and Android  2.3.3 platform tools as will see later. The first step is to download the Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.Pick your platform (mine is Mac.) [...] Advertise here with BSA Related posts:Premium Stock Flash Cartoon Animation Unbeatable Android Apps for Graphics Designers Premium AS3 Flash Preloaders for Your Sites How to Create HTML5 Banner Animation in Adobe Edge How to Create a Hand-Drawn RSS Icon in Illustrator

Note: the following is mostly supposition but seems to help. In Flex for web or desktop development we all make heavy use of the creationComplete event to initiate all sorts...

It’s saturday noon and I’ve got an FDT5 Prerelease version installed (thanks again to Powerflasher). And as I’m about to do some iOS & Adobe AIR performance tests I’m in need of an app.. obviously. So, wouldn’t it be nice to directly check out the new mobile workflow in FDT? It could cost me a [...]

If you package an Native Extensions for latest Adobe AIR 3.0 you will have an option for signing it with an certificate as well. The packaging process of creating ANE (ActionScript Native Extension) files is already well documented (check “Packaging a native extension” at Adobes AIR documentation). However, it’s not easy to find a detailed [...]

Folks who have used Adobe AIR before already know (or hopefully know) about it's cool, built-in database support. Any AIR application (whether written in Flex or HTML - you do remember you can do AIR with HTML, right?) can make use of an embedded SQL... [More]

FlexSpaces (open source Flex / desktop AIR application for Alfresco ECM) has been ported to Flex Mobile. Here is a video of FlexSpaces Mobile for Alfresco running on an iPad2: Here is a video of FlexSpaces Mobile for Alfresco running on an Android Tablet (ASUS Transformer): FlexSpaces Mobile has the full features of desktop FlexSpaces AIR (creation and [...]

As I’ve mentioned the last couple of months have been very quiet here. I don’t want to excuse or even explain myself but tell you what happened in these months. And one thing for sure, my Flash heart is still bleeding. iFunnel Frenzy HD The first big news is a project by DER PUNKT gmbh, [...]

Mobile development is rapidly becoming a requirement for the majority of web developers to consider. Clients may want an exceptional website, and a companion mobile application to allow their users and customers to use their services regardless of location. Typically, mobile app development brings with it a steep learning curve. With the latest release of Adobe’s Flash Builder tool, we are now able to develop for an Android device using familiar software and languages including ActionScript, and deploy as an AIR application. In part one of this tutorial, we will instal the required software and powerful server-side application to handle

!!!August 24 - The following code is for example only - DON'T copy and paste... the lovely little syntax highlighter screwed up casing and tag names. Just pay attention to the methods noted above and general structure.. I'll post up the correct files later on Okay so in my excitement to check out AIR/Apollo I tried to get the SQLite connection working. The sample code in the livedocs on one of the initial Flex Builder builds (the online docs have since been corrected), had a few errors in it ... So I reworked an example from start to finish to:

AIR 3 offers two new capabilities that can make data persistence much more secure than what was possible with previous versions of AIR. If your AIR application persists information like credentials or sensitive relational data that must remain secure, this article is for you. flash.crypto.generateRandomBytes() The new flash.crypto.generateRandomBytes function provides a way to generate far [...]

Burhan Bozkurt has built a mobile IM and Video Chat application with Adobe Air.The name of the application is B-Messenger.  Thanks to Air 3, both Android and iOS versions are very stable and functional now.iOS version itunes links:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/b-messenger-private-video/id464791873?mt=8http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/b-messenger-lite-private-video/id464773864?mt=8 (Lite Version)Android version Android Market links:https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.bilye.b_messengerhttps://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.bilye.b_messenger_lite (Lite Version)Original post at http://technoracle.blogspot.com