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Oct 6th, 2011

How PhoneGap impacts how we evangelize Flex

DISCLAIMER: The following is my personal opinion and not necessarily that of my employer (Adobe Systems, Inc.). The PhoneGap announcement at MAX 2011 really got a lot of people excited (including me!), and it raised a few questions about how it changes our jobs as evangelists. PhoneGap gives us the means to build cross-platform apps with [...]

Sep 25th, 2011

A super simple approach to Splash Screens for Flex Mobile Apps

If you are fairly new to mobile app development with Flash or Flex, I bet you have run into the following issue when creating your splash screens — You create a splash image that looks great when the device is held in portrait orientation: …but then when you turn it landscape, you get the white [...]

Sep 8th, 2011

Finding the current location in your mobile app using Geolocation

Yesterday, I blogged about Geolocation. I thought it would be helpful to show some code that determines the current location in your app. CODE:

Sep 8th, 2011

Geolocation tips, quirks, and possible bugs (flash.sensors.Geolocation)

I’ve been working on a couple of apps recently that use the Geolocation APIs. I’ve discovered a few tips and quirks that I felt were worthy of sharing. Geolocation object There are two classes that you need in order to implement location in your app – Geolocation and GeolocationEvent. When you create a Geolocation object, [...]

Sep 6th, 2011

Flex versus ActionScript – the debate gets new life

A few days ago, a reader commented on my blog post, “The Flex Team discusses the future of Flex” and brought up the frequent debate of Flex versus ActionScript. This subject has been debated many times since Flex was born, but lately it is becoming a hot topic again, especially with developers shifting their focus [...]

Aug 23rd, 2011

Flex PersistenceManager and iOS Tip

Due to the way iOS suspends apps, you’ll need to do an explicit “.save()” on your persistenceManager if you want your data to be reliably saved. I can’t find this documented, but I suspect it is because of how iOS suspends an app. Once your app is suspended, it is not allowed to do anything [...]