Why Touch Events not working in Mobile Devices?

There are multiple developers who checks their application in mobile devices and they find that touch events are not working there. The reason of this is just one line to be included in application i.e.

Multitouch.inputMode = MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT;

and if you are looking for gesture then:-

Multitouch.inputMode = MultitouchInputMode.GESTURE;

Enjoy…………

Updating Adobe AIR 3.6 sdk in Flash Builder 4.6

Friends, If you are trying to update to AIR sdk 3.6 then please get it from here.

http://helpx.adobe.com/air/kb/archived-air-sdk-version.html

As I have seen some people trying with

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/air-sdk-download.html

This is not going to work with regular Action Script Compiler.

Hope this will help someone.

Shardul

Lot of excellent features with AIR 3.4

Nice to see the AIR 3.4,excellent features are here for the ios development.
For the detail information please visit:-

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/air3-4/

 

 

 

Enjoy Flexing………

Application specific File Storage on Adobe AIR based ios Application

Just sharing this link to avoid unneccessar rejection of your application,detail information can be
found on the link below:-

http://blogs.adobe.com/airodynamics/2012/03/05/app-compliance-with-apple-data-storage-guidelines/

 

 

Hopefully it can help someone.

Getting Vibration On Android base mobile using Native extension for Adobe AIR

I hope you all will be aware of the Native extensions in the Adobe AIR.You can check the official link for the same by adobe.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air.html

I have implemented the usage of the native extension for achieving the vibration in adobe air mobile application.As there is not a default API in adobe air to achieve this.So I have used the native extension i.e. (ANE file) for this.Things are working superb on my Samsung Galaxy.

Instead of repeating things I will like you to visit:-

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air/extensions/vibration.html

You will see the step by step implementation with the source code there.

Shardul

Adding a device simulator(emulator) to Flash Builder 4.6

If you are having one such device for which you are planing to make the mobile application and you are not having it by default in the list of emulators in Flash builder 4.6.At that point you can just add your desired mobile to the list of emulators.It can be just achieve by the couples of mouse clicks.Simply go to the Window>Preferences>Flash Builder>Device Configurations
And click on the “Add” button. Then fill the detail of the your preferred mobile set.Attaching the screen shot.

After applying the settings you will be see this on the list of the emulators and you can use this.

Hope this will help someone……………………….

Flash,Flex Vs HTML 5

I was checking the HTML 5 with Java script,CSS 3 and Jquery around since last 4 months.Also was keeping my eyes on this since 2008,but never get inspired to do anything.Now also I found that HTML 5 is still in the state where Flash was 7 to 8 years back.HTML 5 can replace maximum of simple banners and animated advertisements which were created using the flash.For that also the development cost is going to increase and quality will be not up to that extent as the Flash has provided long earlier.

But for the Audio/Video Streaming,Image manipulation,Gaming and Enterprise applications HTML5 needs to take still around 10 years.Also currently I don’t found any thing as impressive as AMF for the Client Server communication over the internet.The reason for this is simply that HTML 5 is also a markup language.You can check the link below,you will realize where the HTML 5 is in reality:-

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/

So the only thing which I will like to say is that Flash and HTML 5 will be needed in the same way
as earlier they were used together on the web.If you will try to replace Flash by HTML 5 for the small
purpose then you have to pay lot more then flash.And if you will be trying to create the Enterprise Application with HTML 5 then I think you will come back to Flex one day.Flash player is ruling since last 15 plus years,its not so simple to replace that.

Keep Rocking………..

Flash Player releases after 11.2 on the Linux

Flash Player releases after 11.2 will not be available as a direct download from adobe on the Linux,it will work only with the Google Chrome on Linux.

There is a statement as below from adobe :-

For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the “Pepper” API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.

For detail information please have a look on the

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html

Using charts inside Mobile Applications with Adobe AIR

I was in a big doubt since very long time,I was waiting for the new version of the Charts under the Spark Components,so that I can use them inside the mobile applications.But I was surprised also that why there is nothing for this in the Spark components.But Yesterday I just checked with the MX Charts components in my mobile application for a demo on my Samsung mobile,and things were working excellent and smooth.Was happy and surprised also that how is it is it possible?. Later on started to search on the net for this.And found it on my first click.It was clearly mention there at
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/mobile-development-flex-flashbuilder.html#articlecontentAdobe_numberedheader_1
by Narciso Jaramillo long long ago that:-.

Charts are supported in mobile projects, but other MX components are not. We don’t recommend using MX components in mobile projects; use the Spark components instead. The one exception is the charting components, which are usable in mobile projects if care is taken to avoid displaying or animating too much data at once.

So finally I have to made myself satisfy with ‘Better late than never.’
Hence sharing it,hope this can help someone.

Keep Rocking………..

Captive Runtime a Excellent Feature for Mobile Applications via Adobe AIR

I hope you all will be aware of the Captive Run-time.This is nothing else but a installer of the application which will be already containing the AIR Run-time inside this.Just used the on my Samsung handset with creating a demo application.Its nice to see how cool it is,no need of the installation of the AIR separately.Its surely an excellent feature.
No doubts the size of the your output format is going to be increase by around 8 MB.
But As per my concern the size of big installer is not going to come in between anyway.
Now you can make your clients more happy by providing them the merged AIR Run-time.No need to install AIR separately.

Enjoy Flexing………….