EverythingFlex: Flex & AIR

AIR 2.0 Native Installer Concerns

Rich Tretola — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:42:22 +0000

url='http://blog.everythingflex.com/2009/11/19/air-2-0-native-installer-concerns/';I love the fact that you can now create native installers for your AIR 2.0 applications (see my 1st post on the subject here) as I feel this will lead to a larger potential audience for your applications whether or not you are actually using any native processes. However, while reading an article titled “Interacting [...]

Updating AIR 2.0 Flex 4 Apps

Rich Tretola — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:43:02 +0000

url='http://blog.everythingflex.com/2009/11/17/updating-air-2-0-flex-4-apps/'; Just a brief FYI that may save you some pain and avoid the TypeError: Error #1007: . If you are now creating AIR 2.0 using MX / Spark, you will need to change the swc you are using for the UI from applicationupdater_ui.swc to a specific one for Flex 4 called applicationupdater_ui4.swc. If you have [...]

Your First AIR 2.0 EXE file

Rich Tretola — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:16:15 +0000

url='http://blog.everythingflex.com/2009/11/17/your-first-air-2-0-exe-file/';Here is a very simple example of how to create your first installed exe for an AIR application. Here is what I did. Using Flash Builder public beta with an updated Flex 4 SDK (overlayed with the new AIR 2.0 SDK), I created a simple application. 123456789<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" [...]

AIR 2.0 Sample Applications

Rich Tretola — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:45:19 +0000

url='http://blog.everythingflex.com/2009/11/17/air-2-0-sample-applications/';AIR 2.0 beta is now available and with it comes a ton of new functionality, check out these sample applications and source code to see these new features in action. FileTile FileTile demonstrates two new capabilities in AIR 2: mass storage device detection, and opening files with their default applications. When running, FileTile detects when a storage [...]

Flash Player 10.1 beta now available

Rich Tretola — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:03:28 +0000

url='http://blog.everythingflex.com/2009/11/17/flash-player-10-1-beta-now-available/';Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices. With support for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks and other Internet-connected devices, Flash Player 10.1 allows your content to reach your customers wherever [...]