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
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
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
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
Flash Builder 4.5 lets you set up mobile applications with multiple views, passing around data and view persistence in a matter of minutes.
Sometimes I really wish I worked over in San Francisco — now and again Adobe does these great meet ups, like recently happened with FlashCamp. They’ve put the video of the presentations online including a keynote by CTO Kevin Lynch and the following topics: Introduction to Flash Catalyst What’s New in Flex 4 Skinning Components read more
Despite the excellent ASDoc integration added in Flash Builder 4 beta, it seems its still not easy to export to HTML and you need to set it up yourself using an external tool configuration. I spent some time trying to figure it out and stumbled across a post by Seb Lee-Delisle that gives a good read more
In case you didn’t know yet, Flash Builder 4 beta (the product previously known as Flex Builder) is now available for download on labs.adobe.com, as is the beta for Flash Catalyst. I’ve been playing around with the public beta for a little bit and thought it was worth blogging some of my favorite features in read more
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