On AIR with Flex

Here is a Speech Native Extension that takes advantage of the Android’s speech recognition APIs.

Here is what the ANE does,

• Provide an API to check if the feature is supported.
• Provide an API to launch the default speech recognition UI and capture voice input.
• Trigger events based on the success or failure of the above call.

• In case of success, the appropriate event has information of the best match !
• In case of failure, the appropriate event is fired.

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I did a webinar last Wednesday on using Native Extensions with Flash Builder. The agenda covered an introduction to Native Extensions – Rather Actionscript Native Extensions, the workflow involved in using native extensions, followed by a live demo.

For those of you who haven’t had the chance to attend,

Here is the link to the Recording,
View Recording

Here are the Slides,
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This post is a follow up to my session at Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2011, Bangalore on the 28th of July. I spoke on Peer to Peer for Mobile Devices with the Flash Platform. Peer to Peer has been around for a long time now, but its not often you see apps making use of this immensely capable technology. My talk covered the possibilities that could come to life with P2P on Mobile, along with some demo’s. Here is the Slide Deck,

As part of my demo at AFPS, I wrote the RealTime Locator, a simple app that shares its location with every peer in a group over the RTMFP protocol. (continue reading…)

The much awaited Flash / Flex / Actionscript developer summit, the Adobe Flash Platform Summit is back again on 27th – 29th July at Bangalore, India with all new and exciting content around Devices, Experiences & Innovation. Watch out for exciting sessions around Flex for Mobile and Enterprise. Also with us this time are a host of Product Managers apart from Duane Nickull and Renaun Erickson, Evangelists from across the world. Ben Forta, too, is going to be there.

I will be speaking on the 28th July. Here is an abstract of my session,
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The Blackberry Playbook App Clinic’s are here ! Your one stop destination to get those apps onto the Blackberry Playbook. The App Clinic’s, organized by various Flex user groups, are happening across major Indian cities over this week and the next.

What is it ?
If you have been longing to get your app onto the Blackberry Playbook, have a cool app idea, if you are a enthusiastic Flex / Actionscript developer, or never had an opportunity to try out the new Flex 4.5 SDK or the new Flash Builder 4.5.1, Blackberry Playbook App Clinic’s are for you !
The clinic kick-starts with a presentation on building Flex/Air Apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Experts from Adobe India and RIM will be present for the rest of the event at the venue to drive out your doubts and help you build apps seamlessly.

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I will be speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2011, at J N Tata Auditorium, IISC, Bangalore on the 21st and 22nd April 2011.

Here are the abstracts for my sessions,

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A long awaiting post, Yahoo! Open Hack Day 2010, Bengaluru. This happens to be my longest stint with coding. For those of you who dont’ know, Open Hack Day is 24 hrs – to build an innovative application on-spot, overnight, with unlimited caffeine and Red Bull’s and glowing laptop’s all around – Not to mention the smell of Geek Air . Thanks to Twitter, I managed to make it to the 13th Open Hack Day.

If you are wondering why am I bragging about ‘Hacking’, your probably mistaken.

Hack != Illegal

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Functional Intent Meets Pixel Perfection, Adobe Flash Platform Summit,2010 – will feature distinct days for developers and designers. You will learn everything from innovations in Flash, Flex, LCDS, LiveCycle, to bringing great experiences to mobile phones and devices, to the future of the platform. You will learn new technologies that enable integrated design and develop workflows, and innovative ways to monetize content. You will take away the skills, insight, and contacts to take advantage of these opportunities as they transform our industry.

The 2 day event, being the Develop and Design Days, is the largest Flash Platform conference in India with over forty presentations including inspiring keynotes from legendary Adobe speakers. You also have the opportunity to hang out at the expo area and connect with Adobe partners, industry leaders and peer developers and designers. With over 2000 attendees sharing the same passion as you, imagine the opportunities to network and further your goals.

Get There :
AFPS web site: http://bit.ly/adobesummit
AFPS twitter: http://twitter.com/adobesummit

Before I start, spend a few seconds going though the links as you come across them.

The Adobe VS Apple war doesn’t seem to get over. We have seen official websites taking offensive & defensive sides, numerous forums and blogs reasoning their opinion and jokes from presenters at developer conferences (Yes I mean Vic Gundotra at Google I/O 2010). The debate on performance of Flash still seems to be going on and on.

Focus is now on Android, a scale for judging the correctness of Apple/Adobe. While I dont deny the ultimate browsing experience provided on iPhones/iPads, here is my take on Android running Flash.
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You hear of new software’s to browse the internet before you know it, be it new browsers or new versions. But how many of these really run the code on your website as expected? In spite of the W3C’s (World Wide Web Consortium) attempts to establish common standards, not many browsers comply, not to mention the oldest browser around, Internet Explorer. At the same time, you cannot expect users to use a W3C compliant web browser. Ask a newbie if s/he knows what Firefox is. “Fire… What?” would be an expected answer. If you are building a website, make sure its runs on atleast the popular browsers around, IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari.

Here I list a few browser compatibility problems I’ve faced, and how I managed to solve them.
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