Well its true I don’t have an Android phone yet. My contract with my current phone is due to run out later this summer at which point I hope to move onto one of the newer Android phones (hopefully with Android 2.2). With that said that doesn’t stop myself or any other developer for building Flash apps for Android 2.2. Today I’ll use App Engine, Adobe Flash CS5, Adobe Device Central, and Eclipse to build a simple application on the Motorola Droid X and show how everything can be made to work together.
Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category
Build an App Engine powered Flash application for the Droid X
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Flash Player 10.1 – On-demand HTTP Dynamic Streaming (Tutorial)
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Well there is a new way to stream video content via Flash 10.1. Prior to the launch of Flash 10.1 you had to use either “RTMP streaming” or “progressive download”. With the launch of 10.1 and using FMS (Flash Media Server) you can now deliver your content with the added bonus of letting the end user skip to any position without waiting (DVR capabilities to a live HTTP stream). A full tutorial can be found here.
GFS Server has been updated
Thursday, May 20th, 2010If you use my open source GFS Server you might be interested to know that I have updated the project files to use Netbeans 6.8, Apache Mina 1.1.7, as well as the latest SFL4J and MySQL JDBC Connector. No code has been modified in this update.
You can head over to the Google Code site to check it out as well as see some of the plans I have for the future including updating the examples to use by default the new Flash Pro CS5 and FlashBuilder 4 products.
Getting started with Google App Engine, Python, and Flash CS4
Monday, March 1st, 2010Google App Engine is a fast and affordable way to get your applications launched in the cloud. Today we are going to use the App Engine SDK for Python to send data from Flash to App Engine and back.
Building a Flash Chat Socket Server with Stackless Python
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009When most people decide to build a socket server for their Flash/Flex projects they usually turn toward using Java since there are many excellent ways to go about building on some great frameworks. Today however I’ll quickly build a socket server using Stackless Python and communicate to Flash CS4.
Adobe and Facebook team up to deliver an official Facebook API for Actionscript 3.0
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Up until now I believe the only “official” API for Facebook was the PHP one built by Facebook. Well that has now changed.
Get the information and goodies here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/
Getting Flash talking to Facebook via PHP
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009I’ve been working on a project which has now required me to interact with Facebook. There are several ActionScript APIs out there that will interact with Facebook, however, I don’t want to embed my secret Facebook developer key into a SWF which can be easily decompiled. So what I’m going to do is have Flash talk to PHP which in turn can use the official Facebook PHP API to make the calls (basically a proxy system) to Facebook on Flash’s behalf. What I’ll show today is a very fast (and basic) way to do this.
Building a Multi-user Chat Server with xSocket, Java, and Flash CS3
Friday, October 24th, 2008Tutorial: Building a Flash socket server with Java in five minutes
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008For many people who have used Adobe’s Flash or Flex products long enough they have probably at some point wanted to write a chat program, realtime applications (stock quotes, sports scores, etc.) or perhaps a multi-player online game but maybe the complexity kept you from actually doing that. Never fear, there are many great tools out there now to help you achieve this goal. Today we’ll look at xSocket and we’ll build a Flash CS3 application that connects to a socket server, posts some information that will be echoed back, and then we’ll “remotely” shutdown the socket server from our Flash application.
Tutorial: Using Flash CS3 to access Amazon’s SimpleDB
Monday, October 20th, 2008There are several ways to interact with Amazon’s SimpleDB including PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, etc. Today though I want to walk you through using Amazon’s SimpleDB from an ActionScript 3 library submitted by illustratedlife.
