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Tag: Android

  • P2P Apps for Mobile Devices

    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…)

  • Toast on AIR for Android

    Here’s a component which behaves as a ‘Toast’ for AIR applications running on Android. The component can essentially be used across any Flex application, since it is an ActionScript class.

    For those of you who don’t know, Toast is the small transparent alert that pop’s up (and doesn’t block your UI) when u set an alarm on Android phones !

    Toast on AIR for Android

    In the pic above, the text ‘Enter Required Fields’ appears in a ‘Toast’

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  • Flash 10.1 performance – Apple VS Android

    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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  • Google’s foray into Internet-Dom

    Google, a search based company. A defining tag for Google until 3 years back.

    What would you call it now with Operating Systems, Mobile OS’s, Programming Languages, Web Protocols, Email Redefinitions, An Architect UI for Image Search, VOIP under its belt?

    Here is a list of few of Google’s latest products.,
    Chormium OS – The Linux-based operating system. This happens to be another open source project from Google, targeted at Netbooks. Google has just given out the OS code, and GDGT.com has already compiled the code and put it up for download.

    Google Go – Another open sourced product from Google. The Go Programming Language, with Gordon the gopher as the mascot, as Google claims, is intended to speed up the development process, combining performance with speed. Check out this video for more.

    SPDY – An an application-layer protocol, SPDY (pronounced SPeeDY) is an attempt to out-date a protocol we see all day, HTTP. This protocol attempts to transfer files on the internet, faster than we have been doing till today. It attempts to transfer files based on priorities, allowing developers load the REQUIRED content on their webpage first.
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