Category Archives: AIR

Adobe AIR 2.7: Faster App Performance on iOS

Posted on 15/06/2011 by derRaab

Get a big performance boost on iOS using Adobe AIR 2.7 SDK! Adobe’s current release version includes a number of feature enhancements: Install AIR Runtime to SD (Android) Improved performance on iOS Media Measurement Acoustic Echo Cancellation (Desktop only) Enhanced … Continue reading →

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Flex compiler – application descriptor: invalid application identifier

Posted on 08/06/2011 by derRaab

Whenever your Flex compiler prompts “application descriptor: invalid application identifier“, you might check your application description XML file. Your application ID might contain underscores (in my case) or other invalid characters. Since I found a hint to the solution only … Continue reading →

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FFK11 – beyond tellerrand notes

Posted on 08/04/2011 by derRaab

I’m still not sure if “beyond tellerrand” is a subtitle or will become the new brand for the one and only Flashforum conference here in germany. Sascha Wolter and Marc Thiele did a great job as always and even I … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, AIR, Conference, Flash, Flash on iOS, Flex, iPhone / iPad | 3 Comments

iOS development with AIR 2.6 using FDT and my new friend ANT

Posted on 04/04/2011 by derRaab

Adobe recently released AIR 2.6 with improved iOS support, so I finally had to get into using ADT with ANT. My editor of choice is FDT so I wanted to do as less extra work as possible. Mainly because I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, ANT, FDT, Flash, Flash on iOS, iPhone / iPad, Terminal | 4 Comments

Flash iOS packager update released!

Posted on 22/03/2011 by derRaab

Everything New in Adobe AIR 2.6 (read all on Christian Cantrells blog): Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding Owned Windows Bitmap Capture in StageWebView Microphone support on iOS StageWebView on iOS Multitasking on iOS Retina Support on iOS iOS Camera, CameraUI, and CameraRoll … Continue reading →

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Undocumented XMLUtil class in Adobe Flash CS5?

Posted on 18/05/2010 by derRaab

I tried to recompile an older Flash CS 4 project with Flash CS 5 but got this compile time error 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method reuseNodes through a reference with static type Class caused by the usage of … Continue reading →

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Aligning Flash TextField instances visually correct

Posted on 16/05/2010 by derRaab

I was looking for an easy way to align TextField instances with different font sizes visually correct. I really thought this wouldn’t take much time but it turned out to become really frustrating. So think about a simple scenario: Try … Continue reading →

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FFK10 – Flashforum conference notes

Posted on 20/04/2010 by derRaab

Every year I spend two days sitting in the audience of the Flashforum conference (FFK) listening to great speakers and getting impressed by their experiments and thoughts. It’s also a good way to renew some of the basic knowledge in … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, AIR, Flash, Flash in Browser, Flash Player, Flex, How To..., iPhone / iPad, Librarys, Utils | 3 Comments

Flash and Amazon SimpleDB

Posted on 26/03/2010 by derRaab

I did some research about using Amazons SimpleDB service within a Flash based application and found these basic facts: http://sdb.amazonaws.com/crossdomain.xml is not available. This means no direct calls from Flash clients in browsers are possible! Even if it would be … Continue reading →

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URLRequest with HTTP authentication

Posted on 25/02/2010 by derRaab

I found a good explanation how to support HTTP authentication with URLRequests here. That’s the most interesting part: Best I can tell, for some reason, this only works where request method is POST; the headers don’t get set with GET … Continue reading →

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