Take a look at the video then play online and download it for your Android mobile phone.

I’m sure you will enjoy it as much as I do.

Oh, and it was developed with Adobe Air.

The games were made using Adobe Air.

Kristen Stewart Puzzle: Try to solve the puzzle as fast as possible with minimum number of moves.

Play online or download it for Android.

LeviBall: In this game your goal it to keep the ball in the air. But pay attention: you cannot let it touch in the borders of the screen, otherwise you loose all your points!

Play online or download it for Android.

Give them a try and share your impressions with me. Thanks.

They were developed using the Adobe Air.

Athlete DressUp: Help our tennis player. She needs to shine in the Olympic Games competitions.

Play online or download it for Android.

Beach Girl Dress Up: Jessica is on the beach. Help her to be beautiful and winning the hearts of the boys.

Play online or download it for Android.

Mermaid DressUp: This cute mermaid needs your help to get her prince.

Play online or download it for Android.

Bride Dress Up Game: Estella will get married. Help her dress up and be beautiful for the most important day of her life.

Play online or download it for Android.

I Am a Super Hero: The world has a new hero: Super Girl. But before you begin to combat crime it is necessary that you choose your uniform.

Play online or download it for Android.

Mother Dress Up Game: Help this mommy-to-be get dressed and make her look nice on this sunny day.

Play online or download it for Android.

Schoolgirl Dress Up Game: In this new academic year, Kathy wants to shine. Help her her clothes.

Play online or download it for Android.

Please, give a try on them and let me know what you think.

Why? Because it lets flash developers take advantage of a knowledge they already have.

And the one of the main doubt theses flash developers have is how to install Adobe Air apk in to Android emulator.

That’s pretty easy.

I’m assuming that you already have both the Android Air / Flex SDK and an Android emulator up and running.

The Adobe Air app apk for Andoid emulator is under the folder

<PATH TO FLEXSDK>\runtimes\air\android\emulator\

Go to

<ANDROID SKD PATH>\platform-tools

folder and type

adb -e install -r <FULL PATH TO APK>

In my case,

adb -e install -r C:\soft\flash\FlashDevelop\Tools\flexsdk\runtimes\air\android\emulator\Runtime.apk

That’s it.

If you’re interested into checking whether the Adobe Air apk is really installed into Android emulator, in the emulator go to

Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications

You should see the Adobe Air application.

Enjoy.

That’s easy on both native Android and native iPhone SDKs. But is it possible to integrate AirPush in games developed with Adobe Air?

Yes. It is.

Go here and get the ANE. Integration is easy and you have great support.

Is it possible to use AdMob ads with them? – you may be wondering.

Of course it is.

Just go here and get the ANE. It’s a breeze to integrate it into Adobe Air.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK

I came across this error too and it happened to a brand new Android device running API 17.

After a lot of research, I found out my device isn’t supported by Adobe. You can check here whether your device is supported.

If you’re incorporating Adobe Air into your apk (and I’m pretty sure you are), I recommend you to remove it and let the user install it under demand.

Once you remove the Adobe Air from the apk file, he/she will be sucessfully installed into the real device.

So, whenener the user tries to run your game, it will receive a notification from Android system saying he/she needs to install Adobe Air.

And that’s good. Why? Because right after user tried to install Adobe Air the installation process will fail and Android will them him/her that his/her device isn’t supported by Adobe.

It will save you the hassle to have many bad reviews saying your game doesn’t work. Users will blame Adobe, not you.

You need the splashscreen file, a layout file and to modifiy AndroidManifest.xml accordinly.  All this will be provided here.

I’m assuming that your main activity is named MainActivity.java.

The splashscreen is showed in the listing bellow. Change the package name according to your own structure (see lines 1, 3 and 4).

On line 21 you can see I’m calling a layout named splash.xml.

package com.plicatibu.appname;

import com.plicatibu.appname.MainActivity;
import com.plicatibu.appname.R;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SplashScreenActivity extends Activity {

	private static final String TAG = SplashScreenActivity.class.getName();
	final int SPLASH_TIMEOUT = 2000;

	/**
	 * @see android.app.Activity#onCreate(Bundle)
	 */
	@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.splash);

		Thread t = new Thread() {
			int wait = 0;

			@Override
			public void run() {
				try {
					super.run();
					while (wait < SPLASH_TIMEOUT) {
						sleep(100);
						wait += 100;
					}
				} catch (Exception e) {
				} finally {
				    finish();
					startActivity(new Intent(SplashScreenActivity.this, MainActivity.class));
				    }
				}
			}
		};
		t.start();
	}
}

Listing 1 – Splashcreen.java

The splash.xml layout file is on listing 2. It must be in the res/layout folder under you project.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<RelativeLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  android:background="#ffffff"  >

<ImageView 
    android:id="@+id/LogoView" 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/splash"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true" />

</RelativeLayout>

Listing 2 – splash.xml layout file.

Notice that line 21 references a file named splah. It’s the name of your image used in the splash screen. Be sure to add it under res/drawabe folder. I recommend you using a .png file.

Note: you should add other versions of splash.png file to other drawable folders to contemplate other screen resolutions (drawable-hdpi, drawable-ldpi, drawable-mdpi).

The next step need in ordr to show the splash screen and after some seconds () call the main activity is to change the AndroiManifest.xml file.

Listing 3 shows the needed code you have to add.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:installLocation="preferExternal" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0.0" package="com.plicatibu.appname">

	<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3"/>

	<application android:label="The Game Name" android:debuggable="true" android:icon="@drawable/icon">		

	    <activity android:name=".SplashScreenActivity">
	        <intent-filter>
	            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
	            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
	        </intent-filter>
	    </activity>

		<activity android:name="MainActivity" android:label="The Game Name" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation">

			<intent-filter>
				<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
			</intent-filter>		
		</activity>
	</application>
</manifest>

Listing 3 – AndroidManifest.xml

Pay attention to line 1 in listing 3. You must change the package name to matche yours.

And that’s it.

I hope it help you.