Android Air Apps

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 Beta on Labs

ben — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:59:49 +0000

Key features included:

Stage Video hardware acceleration
A new method for video playback in Flash Player allowing developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration.

Native custom mouse cursors
Define custom native mouse cursors.

Support for full screen mode with multiple monitors
Full screen content on a secondary monitors while users work on another display.

Get in from the Labs

Geolocation API on Android tutorial

ben — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:19:40 +0000

Using the Geolocation API the geographical location can be displayed on the device in the form of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates. The API can enable both one-shot location requests and repeated location updates for tracking applications. This example from Adobe shows you how to use repeated location updates.

Adobe InMarket Announced

dan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:45:41 +0000

With Adobe Air’s cross-platform nature it makes sense to need a place to distribute your applications from one place instead of having to manage them all separately. Enter Adobe InMarket announced at Adobe MAX 2010 – which lets you target the majority of the seemly ever growing app stores all in one go. Intel have apparently already expressed interest in this with there ‘AppUp’ store and we’re sure the rest of the popular app stores will follow suit very soon.

Adobe Air 2.5 not only supports desktops platforms such as Linux Windows and Mac OSX, but also supports / will soon support Android, Blackerry’s tablet OS and iOS (ha).

Google Chrome 7 Released

ben — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:07:05 +0000

Yesterday Google released Chrome version 7. The update is part of Google’s promise in July to release a new stable version its web browser about every six weeks. As well as the usual bug fixes, the update includes a improved HTML5 parser, File API, and directory upload via input tag.

Jobs Says Android isn’t Open, Google Says…

ben — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:08:31 +0000

Steve Jobs spent the most part of yesterdays Apple’s earnings call ranting at rival companies, operating systems and platforms during which he has described Android OS as fragmented and not truly open.

We leave you with Google’s VP of engineering, Andy Rubins twitter reply:

“the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make”

Awesome!

Apple Bashing: Apple TV 2nd Generation

dan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:12:27 +0000

Here at AndroidAirApps we are not afraid to admit our rather strong dislike towards anything Apple, so we couldn’t help but laugh at their latest and quite frankly pitiful excuse for a… well we’re struggling to find a proper name for it… …’Streamy type Thingy’ will do for now.

Its sheer lack of features (namely 1080p playback support and any form of usable internal storage) means it relies on other computers or Network Attached Storage units in your house to stream data from – which in our minds completely defeats the purpose of what a device like this should so.

Sure it may look ‘pretty’ but even that cant save it from its crapness. Yes thats right, crapness. The new word of the day.

We just feel sorry for the Apple worshipers who will inevitably buy into this. Ha who are we kidding, they deserve it!

Source found Here

Air For Android Hardware Acceleration

dan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:41:28 +0000

Heres another great video discussing Air for Android hardware acceleration / GPU rendering on your mobile device. This video was created by Lee Brimelow who demonstrates how to enable GPU rendering and compares the performance with and without it. Link: … Continue reading →

Air on Android CPU vs GPU Demo

ben — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:27:46 +0000

Christian Cantrell product manager and application developer on the AIR team demonstrates the differnce between CPU and GPU modes running Air on Android.

Read his full post on how to access GPU rendering.

Code Snippet: Using Air to Load An Image Using the CameraRoll and MediaPromise Classes

dan — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:03:58 +0000

Using Air for Android you can use the built in Android gallery to browse for and load an image into your application.

var cameraRoll:CameraRoll;
if (CameraRoll.supportsBrowseForImage)
{
cameraRoll = new CameraRoll();
cameraRoll.addEventListener(MediaEvent.SELECT, onImageselected);
cameraRoll.browseForImage();
}

function onImageselected(e:MediaEvent):void
{
var data:MediaPromise = e.data;
trace("file type: " + data.mediaType);
trace("file name: " + data.file.name);
trace("file url: " + data.file.url);

var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addImage);
loader.load(new URLRequest(data.file.url));
}

function addImage(e:Event):void
{
addChild(e.target.content);
}

Upon testing it seems you do not need to add the android.permission.CAMERA permission to your applications XML descriptor file.

Code Snippet: Using Air to Access The Microphone on your Android Device

dan — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:30:58 +0000

Using Air for Android to access the Microphone (almost exactly the same way as accessing the camera) on your device :

var mic:Microphone;

if(Microphone.isSupported)
{
mic = Microphone.getMicrophone();
mic.rate = 44;
mic.addEventListener(SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA, onMicDataRecieved);
}

function onMicDataRecieved(e:SampleDataEvent):void
{
trace("mic level: " + mic.activityLevel);
}

You also need to give your app permission to use the microphone by editing the applications XML file to include the following under the root () element:

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