When working with local data in mobile applications you might want to consider a SQLite database. Those are especially useful when working with large amount of data that you want to filter at runtime. Flex Mobile projects can simply take advantage of SQLite support in the Adobe AIR runtime. You could certainly write it from read more
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Controlling the soft keyboard in Flex Mobile applications
There are times when writing mobile apps that you want to have more fine grained control over the software keyboard and Flex 4.5 makes this very easy. Any object based on InteractiveObject now has a needsSoftKeyboard property, setting this to true will cause the virtual keyboard to come up on the device whenever the instance read more
Defining a view transition for Flex Mobile applications
If you’ve been playing around with the Flex 4.5 mobile features, one of the great new things is the ability to easily navigate between different screens. For this you can use the navigator object and push or pop a view in your application. There are a few extra things you can define when navigating between read more
Adding a splash screen to your Flex Mobile application
One of the common things you’ll want to do when building mobile apps is add a splash screen. This is an image that shows up while the application is launching and gives a visual indication to the user in the 1 or 2 seconds it takes after clicking. With the new Flex 4.5 mobile components read more