Leonardo França

New Adobe Flash Player 11.2 beta for Desktops and Adobe AIR 3.2 beta

Leonardo França — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:23:07 +0000

The Adobe® Flash® Platform runtimes, Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR®, together enable businesses to efficiently deliver rich customer experiences across multiple digital touch points. With Flash Player and AIR, content can easily and consistently move between the browser, standalone applications and native operating systems to reach users on the devices of their choice. Since the Adobe runtimes share a common codebase, developers can reuse code to deploy game console quality 2D and 3D games, rich media applications with premium high definition video and scalable date driven applications though both AIR and Flash Player.

Note that this is the last beta before final release.

Adobe AIR 3.2 Beta
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/air3-2/

Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Beta for Desktops
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11-2/

Flash Player for Nokia E5, 5235, E63…

Leonardo França — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:58:49 +0000

I have received many requests related to the person seeking the release of Flash Player for Nokia E5, 5235, E63 …. To help point out the Flash Lite 4 Nokia site that has the model of the Nokia device and version of the Flash Player (Flash Lite) compatible.
It is important to understand the difference between the desktop Flash Lite and Flash Player. Flash Lite is a customized version of the Flash Player to run on mobile devices, but does not have all the features of the player for desktop. Many sites and applications you use on the web, not able to use the phone, by limitations of the device and player.

Below is a list of versions of Flash Player and Flash Lite equivalent. A lot of attention because it is equivalent is different from equal.

Macromedia Flash Lite 1.0 based on Flash Player 4
Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1
Macromedia Flash Lite 2.0 (December 2005) released in 2005, which brought its capabilities in line with Flash Player 7
Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 (December 2006) running on the BREW platform
Adobe Flash Lite 3 (Announced on February 2007) support for FLV transcoding, equivalent to desktop Flash Player 8
Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 (February 2009) player turbocharged with some features of Flash Player 9
Adobe Flash Lite 4 has been released (2010) and integrated in Symbian^3, has ActionScript 3.0 support, equivalent to desktop Flash Player 10

SOURCE

Create Flash Games

Leonardo França — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:20:28 +0000

If you want to enter this rapidly expanding market in 2012, following some tutorials created by Emanuele Feronato showing simple and objective way of creating games using Adobe Flash

Part 1
http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2006/10/29/flash-game-creation-tutorial-part-1/

the end of each tutorial has a link to the following tutorial

Flash physics engine

Adobe Flash offers a huge range of possibilities for game development and more recently with the Stage3D of Flash Player (codenamed Molehill), this has only increased and much freedom developers. Stage3D lets you create games to run in the browser(or Adobe AIR) with the quality of games we see on consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
For some games it is essential to have a physical simulation (gravity, action and reaction, collisions, etc.), so-called physics engines, which are well known by staff who have already developed on other platforms for specific games. Some physics engines for Adobe Flash are:

Box2DFlash — This Flash physics engine is based on the widely recognized Box2D engine from C++.
Glaze — This one is based on the Chipmunk engine from C++. Beyond physics, this library also features scene management, line of sight, user input, scrolling, and AI.
JigLibFlash

See too somes Frameworks and libraries for Stage 3D.

useful links

Make your site online games done with Flash
Monetize your Flash Games
Gaming engines, 3D, and Stage 3D
Excerpt: Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D (Molehill) Game Programming Beginner’s Guide

Flash Player focused on Games

Leonardo França — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:21:26 +0000

A few months ago, we saw Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 with Stage3D support, since we shipped we have seen great response from the developers and amazing content being developed. Today, over 50% of users with Flash Player 11 will enjoy full hardware acceleration for Stage3D content.

See more details from blog of the producers of Flash Player.
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/01/introducing-flash-player-11-2-and-air-3-2-beta4.html

SharedObject with Flash Media Server

Leonardo França — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:01:10 +0000

SharedObject is a feature that give Flash Player the ability to save data locally to be used later in your application, roughly speaking is like a cookie. With Flash Media Server, was introduced the possibility of using the SharedObject Remote, in which the data is saved in Flash Media Server and shared for all instances of a connection between Flash Player and Flash Media Server. This enables you to create applications in real time as Dashboard, chats and whatever else your imagination allows.

The SharedObject Remote can be used in two ways in conjunction with Adobe Flash Media Server.

Only the client side, via the Flash Player/AIR
Together with ActionScript Communication, server-side programmgin in Flash Media Server

Consider the first case:

Through the client side, via the Flash Player/AIR

If you have no knowledge to use the language of the Server-side Flash Media Server, you can use the SharedObject Remote only by ActionScript 3.0. Let's sharedBall a classic example, where the goal is to share the positions of the ball to update the other clients connected to the same instance.

Go to the installation directory of the Flash Media Server and browse to the folder "applications", there create a directory called "sharedBall" inside a file called "main.asc"
Open main.asc in your text editor or preferably by the Flash and enter: trace ("sharedBall ...");
Let's test this file, open the Flash Media Server console, usually located in the installation directory / webrrot / swfs. You can open the browser or the swf directly.
Click the "View Applications" and then search for the name "sharedBall" in the combobox at the very bottom left corner where it says "New Instance ..."
Select "sharedBall" tab and we should have something like Live Log in the image below:

In Flash, I created a ball with the drawing tools and converted to give the name of MovieClip "mc_ball."
We are ready to begin the integration between Flash and Flash Media Server. Create a layer for ActionScript and open the editor by pressing F9, or "Window-> Actions"
Our code begins with the connection to the server Flash Media Server

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;
 
var nc:NetConnection;
 
function init():void
{
    nc = new NetConnection();
    nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, handlerNetStatus);
    nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/sharedBall");
}
 
function handlerNetStatus(evt:NetStatusEvent):void
{
    trace(evt.info.code);
}
 
init();

That done, we can test the swf by pressing Ctrl + Enter, if all goes well, we have the following message in the output Flash:

NetConnection.Connect.Success

With the connection made, we can instantiate our Remote SharedObject to share the x and y positions of the ball.

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

if(evt.info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success")
    {
        so = SharedObject.getRemote("so",nc.uri,false);
        so.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, handlerNetStatus);
        so.addEventListener(SyncEvent.SYNC, handlerSync);
        so.connect(nc);
    }

The handlerSync is responsible for updating the data of x and y we will take the SharedObject Remote:

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

function handlerSync(evt:SyncEvent):void
{
    mc_ball.x = so.data.x;
    mc_ball.y = so.data.y;
}

We will give you the option to click on the ball, it can be draggable, then x and y positions will update the SharedObject Remote:

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

mc_ball.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, handlerSharedBall);
mc_ball.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, handlerSharedBallOut);
 
function handlerSharedBall(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
    this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);
    mc_ball.startDrag();
}
 
function handlerSharedBallOut(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
    mc_ball.stopDrag();
}
 
function update(evt:Event=null):void
{
    so.setProperty("x",mc_ball.x);
    so.setProperty("y",mc_ball.y);
}

Following is the complete code:

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;
import flash.net.SharedObject;
import flash.events.SyncEvent;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
 
var nc:NetConnection;
var so:SharedObject;
 
function init():void
{
    nc = new NetConnection();
    nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, handlerNetStatus);
    nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/sharedBall");
}
 
function handlerNetStatus(evt:NetStatusEvent):void
{
    trace(evt.info.code);
    if(evt.info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success")
    {
        so = SharedObject.getRemote("so",nc.uri,false);
        so.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, handlerNetStatus);
        so.addEventListener(SyncEvent.SYNC, handlerSync);
        so.connect(nc);
    }
}
 
function handlerSync(evt:SyncEvent):void
{
    mc_ball.x = so.data.x;
    mc_ball.y = so.data.y;
}
 
mc_ball.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, handlerSharedBall);
mc_ball.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, handlerSharedBallOut);
 
function handlerSharedBall(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
    this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, update);
    mc_ball.startDrag();
}
 
function handlerSharedBallOut(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
    mc_ball.stopDrag();
}
 
function update(evt:Event=null):void
{
    so.setProperty("x",mc_ball.x);
    so.setProperty("y",mc_ball.y);
}
 
init();

See a demonstration in operation:

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Flex with PHP using ZendAMF – Zend_Db

Leonardo França — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:01:17 +0000

In articler Adobe Flex with PHP using ZendAMF – first steps aimed to illustrate the integration of Flex with PHP for those who had already developed systems using AMFPHP, so I did not use the classes to access database ZendFramework. In this article show the same example but using only ZendFramework.

I will take the same example used in the previous article, just changing the class to use PHP classes abstraction database ZendFramework. We begin with our gateway.php

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PHP:

require_once 'Zend/Config.php';
require_once 'Zend/Db.php';
require_once 'Zend/Amf/Server.php';
require_once 'Zend/Amf/Exception.php';
require_once 'Zend/Amf/Server.php';
$server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
$server->setProduction(false);
$server->setClass('Contato');
echo($server->handle());
?>

Running the link into your browser, you should see the following message:

Zend Amf Endpoint

Then modify in our main class, which will perform the operations list, insert, delete and update data from our database:

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PHP:

/*
 * author Leonardo França
 * site http://www.leonardofranca.com.br
 */
 
class Contatos  
{
    private $db;
    private $config;
    private $select;
    private $stmt;
    
    function __construct() 
    {
        $params['host'] = 'localhost';
        $params['dbname'] = 'java';
        $params['username'] = 'root';
        $params['password'] = '';
        $database['adapter'] = 'Mysqli';
        $database['params'] = $params;
        $data['database'] = $database;
        
        $this->config = new Zend_Config($data);
        $this->db = Zend_Db::factory($this->config->database);
    }
    
    public function getData() 
    {
               try
           {
            $this->select = $this->db->select();
            $this->select->from('tabela',array('id','nome','email'));
            $this->stmt = $this->select->query();
            $result = $this->stmt->fetchAll();
            return $result;
        }
        catch (Exception $e)
            {
                    throw new Exception($e->getMessage());
            }   
    }
    
    public function insertData($data=array()) 
    {
            try
        {
            $dados = array(
                'nome'          => $data['nome'],
                'email'         => $data['email']
            );
            $retorno = $this->db->insert('tabela', $dados);
            return $retorno;
        }
        catch (Exception $e)
        {
            throw new Exception($e->getMessage());
        }
    }
    
    public function deleteData($data=array()) 
    {
        try
        {
            $retorno = $this->db->delete('tabela', 'id = '.$data['id']);
            return $retorno;
        }
        catch (Exception $e)
        {
            throw new Exception($e->getMessage());
        }
 
    }
    
    public function updateData($data=array()) 
    {
    try
        {
            $dados = array(
                'nome'          => $data['nome'],
                'email'         => $data['email']
            );
            $where['id = ?'] = $data['id '];
            return $this->db->update('tabela', $dados, $where);
        }
        catch (Exception $e)
        {
            throw new Exception($e->getMessage());
        }
    }
    
}
?>

In ActionScript only need to change what will be passed to PHP, instead of VOs, send Arrays:

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

public function insertData():void
            {
                var contatosVO:Array = [];
                contatosVO['nome']= input_nome.text;
                contatosVO['email'] = input_email.text;
                ro.insertData(contatosVO);
            }

Reference:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.db.adapter.html

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SDK Flex 4.6 avaliable for download

Leonardo França — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:21:48 +0000

Today was released the Flex 4.6 SDK for download, Flex 4.6 is the next major step in cross-platform mobile application development. With a scheduled release date later this year, the new version of Flex SDK and a corresponding free update to Flash Builder will offer a host of new components and functionality specifically designed to help developers create applications for the latest mobile and tablet devices.
See What's new in Flex 4.6 SDK and Flash Builder 4.6.
[UPDATE] Download Adobe Flex 4.6 SDK and Adobe Flash Builder 4.6

Introducing Adobe AIR LaunchPad

Leonardo França — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:01:45 +0000

Technical Evangelist Holly Schinsky(AKA DevGirl) introduces Adobe AIR Launchpad, a new tool for jump-starting your AIR app development for desktop and mobile.

LCCS and PHP with ZendAMF

Leonardo França — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:18:15 +0000

Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service has in its SDK examples for integration with the main languages used in web programming like PHP, Java, Python, etc.
In the Adobe documentation, it is recommended to use AMFPHP or pure PHP, but this integration can be used seamlessly together with ZendFramework (using ZendAMF)
Ryan Stewart wrote two articles that show how this implementation with PHP and REST.

A note on the article by Ryan, in Flex 4, Adobe introduced the use of swfobject, then the mode of getting the URL and pass parameters to the SWF looks like this:

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JAVASCRIPT:

var xiSwfUrlStr = "playerProductInstall.swf";
var flashvars = {};
{
    flashvars.roomURL = swfobject.getQueryParamValue("roomURL");
    flashvars.authToken = swfobject.getQueryParamValue("authToken");
}
var params = {};

In LCCS sdk, there is a file called lccs.php, just copy it to the same directory of your class zend. Then add the include in your gateway.php

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PHP:

require_once 'Zend/Amf/Server.php';
require_once 'lccs.php';
require_once 'Test.php';
 
/** Bootstrap */
 
// Instantiate server
$server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
$server->setProduction(false);
$server->setClass('Test');
// Handle request
echo($server->handle());
?>

And this is a simple test class to call the method that returns the token for authentication

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PHP:

 
class Test
{
    private $account;
    private $room;
    private $devUsername;
    private $devPassword;
    private $secret;
 
    //$accountURL = "https://collaboration.adobelivecycle.com/$account";
    private $accountURL;
    private $roomURL;
    
    function __construct() 
    {
        //for LCCS
        $this->account = "Your SDK account username from LCCS developer portal";
        $this->room    = "The room you want to connect to";
        $this->devUsername = "Your LCCS developer account username";
        $this->devPassword = "Your LCCS developer account password";
        $this->secret  = "The shared secret from the LCCS developer portal";
 
        //$accountURL = "https://collaboration.adobelivecycle.com/$account";
        $this->accountURL = "http://connectnow.acrobat.com/$this->account";
        $this->roomURL = "$this->accountURL/$this->room";
    }
    
    public function getToken($data=array())
    {
        try
        {
            $this->account = new RTCAccount($this->accountURL);
            $this->account->login($this->devUsername,$this->devPassword);
            $session = $this->account->getSession($data['room']);
            $displayName = $data['displayName'];
            $username = $data['username'];
            $role = $data['role'];
            $token = $session->getAuthenticationToken($this->secret, $displayName, $username, $role);
            return $token;
        }
        catch (Exception $e)
        {
            throw new Exception($e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}
?>

Adobe Flash Player 11.1 and Adobe AIR 3.1 available

Leonardo França — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:04:11 +0000

As a follow-up to the highly anticipated release of Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3, which included next-generation technologies like the gorgeous, cinematic 2D and 3D hardware accelerated graphics of Stage 3D.
Flash Player 11.1 and Adobe AIR 3.1 for desktops and mobile devices.
Read more in Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Team Blog
Download Adobe AIR SDK

Using the Update Framework for Adobe AIR

Leonardo França — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:01:43 +0000

One feature that I was more useful in Adobe AIR, was the addition of an API designed to make better automatic update of my application. This can be very important because not all users have the time (or desire) to return the application site to download the latest version.
This is already routine for operating systems and software that we use in day-to-day as the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome or TweetDeck.

From Adobe AIR 1.5, we have the class ApplicationUpdater and ApplicationUpdaterUI which aims to define the basic functionality to update the applications made with Adobe AIR

Manage updates and can be tricky, AIR update framework has the API's necessary for you to do this in a practical and functional. The developer can, for example:

Periodically checking for updates based on an interval or at the request of the user
Downloading AIR files (updates) from a web source
Alerting the user on the first run of the newly installed version
Confirming that the user wants to check for updates
Displaying information on the new update version to the user
Displaying download progress and error information to the user

The information is derived from XML files where you say that the latest version of software, new version of the news etc. Let's take a practical example, if you use Flash Builder should already have the files applicationupdater.swc and applicationupdater_ui.swc as a reference in the library.
We started by calling xml updateConfig.xml, that "say" to your application where are the files to update.

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XML:

 version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
 xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/framework/update/configuration/1.0"> 
     >http://localhost:81/leonardofranca/air/updates/testeUpdate/updateDescriptor.xml> 
    >1> 
>

It must be saved in the same directory of your application, along with other xml and swf files. Now in Flex, instantiate the class ApplicationUpdateUI and setting the configuration xml file so that Flex can know where is the update.

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

var appUpdater:ApplicationUpdaterUI = new ApplicationUpdaterUI();
appUpdater.configurationFile = new File("app:/updateConfig.xml");
appUpdater.initialize();
 
//via ActionScript
//appUpdater.updateURL = " http://example.com/updates/update.xml"; 
//appUpdater.delay = 1;

The file updateDescriptor.xml is where you set the version in the update of your application and where you can add a description of the news update.

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XML:

 version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
      xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/framework/update/description/2.5"> 
       >0.0.2> 
       >http://localhost:81/leonardofranca/air/updates/testeUpdate/testeUpdate_0.0.2.air> 
       >
This version has fixes for the following knowns issues:
*First issue
*Second issue  
  ]]>>
    >

Basically that's it, we will only implement the call to open the application, it checks if there is update.

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MXML:

"1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" 
                       xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" 
                       xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" creationComplete="windowedapplication1_creationCompleteHandler(event)">
    >
        [CDATA[
            import air.update.ApplicationUpdaterUI;
            import air.update.events.UpdateEvent;
            
            import mx.events.FlexEvent;
            
            private var appUpdater:ApplicationUpdaterUI;
            
            protected function windowedapplication1_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
            {
                appUpdater = new ApplicationUpdaterUI();
                appUpdater.configurationFile = new File("app:/updateConfig.xml");
                appUpdater.addEventListener(ErrorEvent.ERROR, onError);
                appUpdater.addEventListener(UpdateEvent.INITIALIZED, handlerInit);
                appUpdater.initialize();
                
                
                //via ActionScript
                //appUpdater.updateURL = " http://example.com/updates/update.xml"; 
                //appUpdater.delay = 1;
                
            }
            
            protected function onError(event:ErrorEvent):void
            {
                trace(event.text);              
            }
            
            protected function handlerInit(event:UpdateEvent):void
            {
                appUpdater.checkNow();
            }
            
        ]]>
    >
    >
        
    >
>

I created a second version of my test application for demonstration, we have the following result:

Click to view

If you want to see if there are any updates of the application, just click on "check for upadates. The updated file is downloaded and installed.

Click for view

References:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS9CD40F06-4DD7-4230-B56A-88AA27541A1E.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/quickstart/articles/update_framework.html

Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service

Leonardo França — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:34:04 +0000

Adobe has released a service formerly code-named Cocomo (Common Collaboration Model), shortly thereafter was renamed Adobe Flash Collaboration Service and is now officially part of the LiveCycle family, being called Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service.
LCCS is intended to function as a SAAS (Software as a Service) to simplify and facilitate the development of RIA applications based on multimedia. Enables architects and developers to create user experiences more engaging and more dynamic supporting multi-user, real time collaboration to new or existing RIA applications.

Some highlights:

Easily integrate text chat, whiteboard, webcam, and VoIP functionality.
Rapidly build and deploy applications with the complete SDK.
Manage user and session data.
Build your applications in the best-of-breed mix of onsite and cloud environments

To start using the LCCS, simply access the LCCS Developer Portal and enter your login or register. The portal is for you to manage instances of your applications, you can track the number of connections, bandwidth used etc..

Pricing Model
LCCS has 3 different dimensions that will be metered on a pay-per-use basis:

Live Stream Bandwidth - $0.49 per GB
Push Messages - $0.10 per 1000 messages
User Minutes - $0.01 per Hour

Read FAQ for more details. You have a quota free and can use up to $15 per month.

References:
http://www.flashrealtime.com/livecycle-collaboration-service-pricing/
https://portal.collaboration.adobelivecycle.com/

Adobe AIR Device profiles

Leonardo França — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:05:45 +0000

For Adobe AIR, you can configure the device profiles, which are a mechanism to define classes that will be available for the device where your application will run defining a set of APIs and resources, usually for a particular class of device.

Available profiles include:

desktop
extendedDesktop
mobileDevice
extendedMobileDevice
tv
extendedTV

You can get more details about each profile and classes supported on the following link:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS144092a96ffef7cc16ddeea2126bb46b82f-8000.html

Using accelerometer with AIR for iOS

Leonardo França — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:25:44 +0000

The iPhone has a large variety of games and applications that use the accelerometer feature. Among the few resources available that Adobe AIR can access, an accelerometer is among them, who may access the data of the X, Y and Z.

The example used is the same as in the article for use with the accelerometer AIR for Android is based and which was the example of use of the accelerometer with Flash Lite 4.0.

See the results: Using Accelerometer with Adobe AIR for iOS.

Source
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Accessing the camera phone with Adobe AIR for Android

Leonardo França — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:43:53 +0000

Adobe AIR for Android can access some hardware features of smartphones. Among some of them we can mention the access to internet, read your phone's status, access network, access the wifi, GPS, sensors, etc.. Adobe AIR can also access the camera device, and this can be done in two ways..

Adobe AIR is available for devices running Android from version 2.2 (Froyo)

we have two classes to access the camera with Adobe AIR for Android:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/Camera.html
The first way to access the camera phone is using the Camera class, classical and already well known for our work in web and desktop environment. Before you can use the method Camera.isSupported, and using cameras to catch the Camera.getCamera().

Usually this class is also used to send the stream from your camera to the Flash Media Server(together with the NetStream class) and transmit to web, desktop or mobile. Here's an example usage:

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

var camera:Camera = Camera.getCamera();
if (camera != null)
{
video = new Video(camera.width * 2, camera.height * 2);
video.attachCamera(camera);
addChild(video);
}
else
{
trace("You need a camera.");
}

In getCamera, if not passed any parameters, access the device's main camera, you can access a camera with the index specifies it as a string:

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

var arrCamera:Array = Camera.names;// todas as câmeras como array
var camera:Camera = Câmera.getCamera(“1”);//acessando a câmera de indece 1

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/CameraUI.html
CameraUI is a new class unique to Adobe AIR for Mobile Devices, allowing you to capture an image or video application standard camera phone. The image or video is available on the object MediaEvent. Here's an example usage:

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ACTIONSCRIPT3:

var deviceCameraApp:CameraUI = new CameraUI();
var imageLoader:Loader; 
 
deviceCameraApp.addEventListener( MediaEvent.COMPLETE, imageCaptured );
                deviceCameraApp.addEventListener( Event.CANCEL, captureCanceled );
                deviceCameraApp.addEventListener( ErrorEvent.ERROR, cameraError );
                deviceCameraApp.launch( MediaType.IMAGE );
 
function imageCaptured( event:MediaEvent ):void
          {
               trace( "Media captured..." );
       
               var imagePromise:MediaPromise = event.data;
       
               if( imagePromise.isAsync )
               {
                trace( "Asynchronous media promise." );
                imageLoader = new Loader();
                imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, asyncImageLoaded );
                imageLoader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, cameraError );
                
                imageLoader.loadFilePromise( imagePromise );
               }
               else
               {
                trace( "Synchronous media promise." );
                imageLoader.loadFilePromise( imagePromise );
                showMedia( imageLoader );
               }
          }
 
function captureCanceled( event:Event ):void
          {
               trace( "Media capture canceled." );
               NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();
          }
    
          function asyncImageLoaded( event:Event ):void
          {
               trace( "Media loaded in memory." );
               showMedia( imageLoader );    
          }
    
          function showMedia( loader:Loader ):void
          {
               this.addChild( loader );
          }
      
          function cameraError( error:ErrorEvent ):void
          {
               trace( "Error:" + error.text );
               NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();
          }

One last detail to work on the smartphone, it is necessary to set the permission for the application can access the camera on Android. This is done in the xml configuration of Adobe AIR:

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XML:

Creating mobile applications with Dreamweaver CS 5.5 and PhoneGap

Leonardo França — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:11:42 +0000

Adobe recently announced an update to your suite of software (Creative Suite 5.5), bringing many innovations to the community. For those who use Dreamweaver and HTML5 now bringing PhoneGap support, which is a framework that allows you to applications for various devices running IOS and Android from JavaScript, HTML and CSS. With this, you can create native applications for Android and IOS from Dreamweaver CS 5.5:D

More:
http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2011/04/12/adobe-dreamweaver-5-5-supports-phonegap/

The new features of Adobe AIR 2.6

Leonardo França — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:25:07 +0000

Adobe today released new versions of Adobe AIR for desktop and mobile (runtime and SDK). The focus of this version was to implement significant improvements to the IOS support and resources to achieve parity between Android and IOS. Check out the extensive list of news in the blog Christian Cantrell and and the blog Adobe AIR Team.

In this video, Ryan Stewart showcases new features of AIR for Mobile 2.6, and how they enable iOS developers to create rich applications for devices.

Monetize your Flash Games

Leonardo França — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:04:45 +0000

Games made with Adobe Flash has become a very interesting market, Zynga (creator of Farmville) that some time ago received a capital infusion of millions of U.S. dollars. Samuel Rivello(I had the opportunity to meet in Flash Camp Brasil) wrote an article for the Adobe Edge explaining how the games industry with the Flash Platform and how developers can earn some money with this, including commenting on the company Mochi Media.
Read the article in full

Make your site online games done with Flash

Leonardo França — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:56:50 +0000

Online games sites made with Adobe Flash has become very popular. There are several agencys who specialize in the development of Flash games and in recent years have seen a big growth in relation to Flash games on social networks to examples of casual games that we found on Facebook and Orkut.

Introducing the Molehill 3D APIs

Adobe Flash offers a huge range of possibilities for game development and more recently with the new 3D API of Flash Player (codenamed Molehill), this has only increased and much freedom developers. See the list of statements with Molehill.

physics engine

For some games it is essential to have a physical simulation (gravity, action and reaction, collisions, etc.), so-called physics engines, which are well known by staff who have already developed on other platforms for specific games. Some physics engines for Adobe Flash are:

Box2DFlash — This Flash physics engine is based on the widely recognized Box2D engine from C++.
Glaze — This one is based on the Chipmunk engine from C++. Beyond physics, this library also features scene management, line of sight, user input, scrolling, and AI.
JigLibFlash

visit www.mandreel.com

You can also use some libraries or codes of games already developed and ported to Flash through the Adobe Alchemy, for those who do not know, Adobe Alchemy converts code in C / C + + to ActionScript 3.0. We have so much producing porting games to the Nintendo Wii to Flash.

I've always been a fan of games and since my first video game, a Master System, I always wanted to create games and now decided to create a website. To create a Flash game site, the company Mochi offers a choice between plugin for WordPress, Game Site Script, Arcadem Pro 2.8+, phpArcadeScript and AV Arcade. The company's interesting is that the company also offers games and the ability to publish and you earn some money with your own game. My game is still in production and involves Flash and Flash Media Server for something more interactive and in real time. Soon be available on Mochi. Meanwhile, enjoy some of the more than 900 free online games made in Flash.

Adobe AIR 2.6 for Android available

Leonardo França — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:56:00 +0000

Already have a little time that Adobe has released Adobe AIR 2.6 for Android smartphones and tablets. AIR 2.6 for Android adds support for Android 3.0 and the latest Android tablet devices – including the Motorola Xoom – as well as improvements to performance and GPU-based rendering, updated Android gesture support, and improved handling of HTML content within AIR apps. Follow the rest of the news of Adobe AIR Team Blog