Winners of the Summer AIR Mobile Contest (CZ/SK)
October 21st, 2010
I am proud to announce winners of the Czech/Slovak Summer AIR Mobile Contest 2010 and I have to say, I was amazed by the talent and passion guys put into development.
Prizes were 2x Google Nexus One, 1x CS5 Web Premium, 2x Flash Pro CS5, 3x Flash Builder 4 and some goodies.
1st place
onBoard – endless realtime drawing board with P2P support
Versions: AIR for Android, AIR for desktop, Flash Player in browser
Author: Jozef ChĂştka
My comment: onBoard brings completely new look on social creativity. You start drawing something and someone finishes it and adds new ideas to that. The app is in it’s beginnings and it’s used by 500 people a day currently. It’s also very optimized to run fluently on mobile devices. It uses mipmapping – depth of zoom like Google Maps.
Available in Android Market
Tip: Close Your Android AIR App on Back Button
October 13th, 2010
While developing AIR for Android apps, you should consider whether you need your apps to run in the background, especially if they are highly intensive graphic games.
To make your users even happier, it’s a good idea to close your app when the Back or Home button is pressed to free CPU and memory. Multitasking is a great thing, but if your app doesn’t need to be open, it’s better to close it and maybe save the state of your application. You can read this article on saving state in AIR applications for iOS devices (same should work for Android).
My fellow evangelist Mark Doherty sent me this code, which does the job. It can be helpful to you, so sharing:
Register handlers:
if(Capabilities.cpuArchitecture=="ARM") { NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(Event.ACTIVATE, handleActivate, false, 0, true); NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(Event.DEACTIVATE, handleDeactivate, false, 0, true); NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, handleKeys, false, 0, true); }
Define handlers:
private function handleActivate(event:Event):void { NativeApplication.nativeApplication.systemIdleMode = SystemIdleMode.KEEP_AWAKE; } private function handleDeactivate(event:Event):void { NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit(); } private function handleKeys(event:KeyboardEvent):void { if(event.keyCode == Keyboard.BACK) NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit(); }
Good luck!
UDP in Adobe AIR 2.0
September 1st, 2010
My fellow evangelist Michael Chaize put together a video on a related topic – UDP. See this presentation on how to start with UDP (User Datagram Protocol) in Adobe AIR 2.0.
Discover the UDP API in Adobe AIR 2.0
Check also his second tutorial – UDP Video in AIR 2.0.
Enjoy!
Summer AIR Mobile Contest 2010 CZ/SK
July 6th, 2010
Adobe Czech Republic in cooperation with the youth conference JuniorInternet (by Together CZ) is opening an innovative contest for Czech and Slovak developers to celebrate mobile versions of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR for Android. Enter and win a Google Nexus One or Creative Suite 5!
Directed Routing Explained in Flash 10.1 P2P
June 4th, 2010
Directed Routing enables you to send data to a specific client in the peer-to-peer group (NetGroup). It requires stable and correct topology to work well – still it’s very useful.
There has been already something written about directed routing. But I’d like to share with you much more.
First, let me explain you which methods does what. You have basically three main functions sendToNearest, sendToNeighbor and sendToAllNeighbors. See image below.
Image: Peer-to-Peer Directed Routing in Flash Player 10.1 [Bigger image]
Continue reading to understand how it all works.
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