AIR for Android and Flex Mobile Resources

March 6, 2011 · 0 Comments

I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to present on mobile development using Flex “Hero” and Flash Builder “Burrito” to both an internal audience here at Adobe and to the Boston Flash Platform User Group. There’s a lot of ground to cover and in both cases I had to breeze through sections due to a lack of time. Perhaps in the future I will split his session up or offer it as an extended workshop. Anyway, I can’t share the slides at this time but I wanted to share the links and resources that I used to help me put the slides together, organized by topic. I think many of you might find these useful. It’s important to note that while the presentation focused on Flex, many of the topics were ActionScript based so not specific to Flex developers.

Please forgive that a number of the resources are my own work – it’s not ego, it’s just that I compiled my prior samples and work to build this presentation. I would, however, welcome you to share your favorite links on any of these topics and I will try to update this list periodically with them.

Download Burrito (MAX build from October timeframe)
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder_burrito/

Join the Prerelease
http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/02/flex-sdk-and-flash-builder-pre-release-program.html

Understanding Views/ViewNavigator

Views/ViewNavigator spec - http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/View+and+ViewNavigator
Flex Mobile development post-Burrito by Jon Campos - http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/10/25/flex-4-5-mobile-development-post-burrito/

Understanding Views/ViewNavigator – Passing Data Across Views

Passing Data Across Views by me - http://www.remotesynthesis.com/post.cfm/passing-data-across-views-in-flex-mobile

Persistence – PersistenceManager, File System, SQLite

Flex 4.5 PersistenceManager by Jon Campos - http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/11/01/flex-4-5-persistencemanager/
AIR for Android File Storage by Rich Tretola - http://blog.everythingflex.com/2010/05/07/air-on-android-file-storage/
Local Caching of Remote Images by me - http://remotesynthesis.com/post.cfm/local-caching-of-remote-images-in-air-for-android

Connecting to Services

Flex Mobile Test Drive - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/testdrivemobile.html
Create Android apps with Flex “Hero” and Flash Builder “Burrito” by me - http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/november2010/articles/article1/index.html

Sending Email, Text Messages, Phone Calls and Market

Air for Android: Text Messages, Emails, and Phone Calls by Jon Campos - http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/09/28/air-for-android-text-messages-emails-and-phone-calls/
URI Handlers in AIR for Android by Christian Cantrell - http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2010/11/uri-handlers-in-air-for-android-phone-calls-email-text-messages-maps-and-urls.html

Device Capabilities – CameraUI

Android, AIR and the Camera by Michaël Chaize - http://www.riagora.com/2010/07/android-air-and-the-camera/

Device Capabilities – CameraRoll

Advanced Android development with Flex “Hero” and Flash Builder “Burrito” by me - http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/january2011/articles/article5/index.html

Device Capabilities – Microphone

“VoiceNotes for Android”: Sample App using Flex, AIR, and the Microphone API by Christophe Coenraets - http://coenraets.org/blog/2010/07/voicenotes-for-android-sample-app-using-flex-air-and-the-microphone-api/

Device Capabilities – Accelerometer

Using the Accelerometer in AIR for Android – Sample Application by me - http://www.remotesynthesis.com/post.cfm/using-the-accelerometer-in-air-for-android-sample-application

Device Capabilities – Gestures

Adding Gesture Support to Your Flex Hero Mobile Applications by me - http://www.remotesynthesis.com/post.cfm/adding-gesture-support-to-your-flex-hero-mobile-applications

AIR Launchpad
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/airlaunchpad/

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