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. (more…)
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.
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,
Here is a set of steps you need to follow to configure a new SDK on Flash Builder 4.
Download the AIR SDK
1) The latest SDK can be downloaded from here : http://www.adobe.com/products/air/sdk/
2) Navigate to /Flash_Builder_Installed_Folder/sdks
3) Find the folder named ‘4.0.0’ (Our Flex 4 SDK) and make a copy of it in the same location, and name it, ‘4.0.0 AIR’
4) Extract the contents of the downloaded archive, and paste it inside the ‘4.0.0 AIR’ directory.
Configuring the new AIR SDK
1) Right Click on the Project Name in Flash Builder, and select Properties
2) Select ‘Flex Compiler’
3) Select ‘Configure Flex SDKs’
4) In the popup window that opens, Select ‘ADD’ and point to the new SDK you just created, namely ‘4.0.0 AIR’.
5) Click ‘Ok’
6) Select ‘Use Specific SDK’, and point to your new SDK.
7) Click ‘Ok’
The application should now get complied with the new SDK.