http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/ Adobe AIR Application Developer, Product Manager, and Evangelist en Copyright 2010 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:23:47 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.261 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I've been playing around with Android recently, and I ran into a situation where I needed to take screenshots of applications running on the device (as opposed to on my desktop with the emulator). Most of the information I found on Google recommended that I install a third-party application, but I learned a quick and simple way to do it without having to install anything. http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2010/01/how_to_take_screenshots_on_android_devices.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2010/01/how_to_take_screenshots_on_android_devices.html Mobile Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:23:47 -0800 It is possible to set HTML focus from Flash or Flex content in AIR, but it takes a little finessing. Here's how to do it... http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2010/01/setting_html_focus_from_flash_in_air.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2010/01/setting_html_focus_from_flash_in_air.html Apollo Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:58:21 -0800 Run the full version of Google Tasks on your Desktop. Give it its own process, its own icon, and its own window. http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/12/google_tasks_on_your_desktop.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/12/google_tasks_on_your_desktop.html Apollo Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:33:47 -0800 In response to feedback from the AIR 2 public beta, we've decided to add four new properties to the flash.net.Socket class. http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/12/four_new_properties_on_socket.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/12/four_new_properties_on_socket.html ActionScript Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:17:59 -0800 There's a little-known feature of ActionScript 3 called labels which can give you better control over nested loops. In particular, labels give you control over the depth of your continue and break statements. Here's how they work... http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/12/labels_in_actionscript_3.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/12/labels_in_actionscript_3.html ActionScript Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:23:51 -0800 How the new storage volume detection APIs work, and how AIR determines whether a volume is considered removable or not. http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/which_storage_devices_are_considered_removable.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/which_storage_devices_are_considered_removable.html ActionScript Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:56:53 -0800 I don't have a multi-touch computer (yet), but I do have a MacBook with a multi-touch trackpad which means I can write AIR 2 applications that incorporate gestures. The video below demonstrates a few of the new gesture APIs in AIR 2... http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/gesture_api_demo.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/gesture_api_demo.html Apollo Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:50:09 -0800 The AIR 2 public beta is now live! Below are all the links you'll need to learn more and get started... http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/air_2_public_beta_resources.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/air_2_public_beta_resources.html Apollo Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:51:48 -0800 I've been wanting to write my own email notifier in AIR for a long time, but without support for encrypted sockets, it wasn't easy to do. But now that AIR 2 added the new SecureSocket class, I was able to write a pretty functional email notifier in just a couple of days... http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/a_demonstration_of_encrypted_sockets.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/a_demonstration_of_encrypted_sockets.html ActionScript Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:20:24 -0800 SearchCentral uses the new NativeProcess APIs in AIR 2 in order to integrate with Spotlight and provide very fast local file system search. Here's a demo... http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/demo_of_nativeprocess_apis.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/demo_of_nativeprocess_apis.html ActionScript Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:25:33 -0800 A screencast of an application demonstrating the new storage volume detection APIs in AIR 2 (along with some code snippets). http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/storage_volume_detection_api_demo.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/storage_volume_detection_api_demo.html ActionScript Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:52:30 -0800 In order to validate the new ServerSocket APIs in AIR 2, I wrote an HTTP proxy server in ActionScript. Check out the screencast, and if you're interested, download the code. http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/server_socket_demo_in_air_2.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/server_socket_demo_in_air_2.html ActionScript Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:20:56 -0800 A little over a year ago, I wrote a Python script to screen scrape the entire Adobe AIR Marketplace, download all the listed AIR applications, crack open the installers, and extract some statistics. My primary interest was how many HTML-based AIR applications were listed versus SWF-based applications, but I recorded some other interesting stats, as well. http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/air_marketplace_stats_part_1.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/11/air_marketplace_stats_part_1.html Apollo Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:54:56 -0800 File promises are kind of a difficult concept to describe, so I decided to explain them using a video. Hopefully this clarifies what file promises are, and why it's such a cool new feature of AIR 2.0... http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/10/a_screencast_showing_file_promises.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/10/a_screencast_showing_file_promises.html ActionScript Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:11:47 -0800 This morning, I was going to start making videos demoing some of the new features in AIR 2.0 when I realized that I should probably start with a list of everything that's new. Below is an exhaustive list of everything that we're planning on including in AIR 2.0. http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/10/everything_new_in_air_2.html http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/10/everything_new_in_air_2.html Apollo Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:44:46 -0800