Archive for: AIR for Android

Mar 8th, 2011

Adobe AIR Launchpad and Tour de Mobile Flex Updated

Adobe AIR Launchpad has been updated to support 8 languages – English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Russian! This and other new features are documented on Holly Schinsky’s blog Also, James Ward recently updated Tour de Mobile Flex to now target AIR 2.6. You’ll notice some nice performance improvements, especially with scrollable lists. [...]

Tour de Flex expanded to include mobile samples!

Jan 27th, 2011

Tour de Flex expanded to include mobile samples!

Tour de Flex now has a bunch of new mobile samples!   This brings Tour de Flex to 609 total samples!  If you haven’t checked out Tour de Flex lately, you should. Holly Schinsky wrote a blog post with more details on the new samples. If you are ready to try your first mobile app [...]

Getting started with Flex on mobile devices and tablets

Dec 3rd, 2010

Getting started with Flex on mobile devices and tablets

If you are an Adobe Flex developer and haven’t dipped your toe into the world of building mobile applications, skip your next lunch break and check it out!  It is incredibly fun and the resulting apps are impressive.  Because the tooling and SDK to make mobile app development with Flex possible is all in pre-release, [...]

Good webcam choice for mobile device demos on stage – IPEVO Point 2 View

Nov 23rd, 2010

Good webcam choice for mobile device demos on stage – IPEVO Point 2 View

For the past few months, our team has been showing more and more applications running on various mobile devices.  We found out quickly that this is a real challenge on stage and even more challenging on web conferences.  Sure, we can run emulators, but people always want to see the real app running on a [...]

How to move Adobe AIR for Android to your SD card

Oct 9th, 2010

How to move Adobe AIR for Android to your SD card

If you are like me and have an android phone that is lacking internal RAM, you are probably doing a lot of app juggling to make it all fit.  Serge Jespers recent blogged: Android – Move your apps to SD where he explains how to move almost any app to the SD card.  This also allows [...]

Some fantastic demos of AIR on Android by Christophe Coenraets

Jul 23rd, 2010

Some fantastic demos of AIR on Android by Christophe Coenraets

Over the past few weeks, Christophe Coenraets has been working some late nights experimenting with the various beta builds of AIR for Android.   As a result, he has created some cool applications and shared them (with source) on his blog.   If you have a few minutes, you should check them out! Here’s a [...]

Debating HTML 5 and Flash?  Get educated first!

Jun 30th, 2010

Debating HTML 5 and Flash? Get educated first!

You’ve probably heard a lot of noise in the press, blogs, twitter, etc. about HTML 5.  You’ve probably also heard how its new video and animation capabilities combined with other cool HTML 5 features is going to be the death of Flash, right?  As a technical evangelist for Adobe, I obviously know a lot about [...]

Fun with AIR on Android – Geolocation

May 26th, 2010

Fun with AIR on Android – Geolocation

There are a lot of things that make building apps for mobile devices extremely fun and addictive.  I’ve especially had fun with the onboard GPS in my Google Nexus One using ActionScript (flash.sensors.Geolocation class).  It’s actually very simple.  Here’s a trivial example: I’m currently playing around with a mobile app that polls my location every [...]

Get started with AIR on Android before you get an Android device!

May 24th, 2010

Get started with AIR on Android before you get an Android device!

Recently, Adobe announced the public beta of AIR on Android.  This excitement combined with all of the energy from the recent Google IO conference has a lot of developers wanting to dig right in!  If you don’t have access to an Android device today, don’t let that stop you from having some fun.  The Android [...]

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