Category Archives: Applications

How To: Install the Android SDK and Compile Your Air Application Part 1

This 2 part ‘how to’ will discuss setting up the Android SDK on a Windows platform, and use Flash CS5 to publish our Air app to an Android emulator (or your device). First, a brief overview of the steps involved: … Continue reading

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AIRonAndroid Browser Application

AIRonAndroid Browser is an Air API demo application by Rich Tretola. The application demonstrations include the Accelerometer, Camera, Geolocation, Multitouch, StageOrientation, and KeyboardEvents. Get the app here

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Android Air and the Microphone Tutorial

Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist Michaël Chaize demonstrates an AIR app for Android that records voice to a WAV file, encodes to MP3, and saves to the SDcard. He also shows off an interaction method combining the accelerometer with the microphone … Continue reading

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Grant Skinners Androideroids

Another great post by Grant Skinner introduces his Androideroids concept which is a multiplayer take on the classic Asteroids game where each player uses their own Android device to control their spaceship to destroy the asteroids. Follow this link to … Continue reading

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Using Your Phone As A Gas Pedal

We are loving Grant Skinners idea of turning his phone into an acceleration pedal by accessing the devices accelerometer and transmitting the values wirelessly to control the speed of his slot cars! Intrigued? Check out his post here: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2010/06/air_for_android.html

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BaoZi Jump Android Air Game

A platform game developed by Maso Lin that uses the Accelerometer API.

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Fruit Smash Android Air Game

Fruit Smash is a game by Jobe Makar originally devloped for the iphone. It took only 3 hours for Jobe to port his game to Android Air and reports the game performance to be much better under Air. “the game performance is … Continue reading

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