I presented a session at RIAPalooza 3 on “Building RIAs from the Prespective of the Finger Tip”. I will probably get around to posting more information about this subject on my blog, but until then I am making my demo code available for those that wanted to play with it. Download the FingerTipTesting.fxp (just unzip if you want it in a non-Flash Builder project format). Its linked against Flex 4.1 which you can pull down off the Flex...

NOTE: From Josh’s comment below you can do this in the Embed metadata. See the end of the post for updated code. With the latest drops of the Flex SDK, 4 and higher, the compiler mxmlc has changed. One of the changes is that it defaults the Spark components to use Text Layout Framework (TLF) for Text fields. TLF is a Flash Player 10.0 plus feature and is built up on the flash.text.engine classes. The mxmlc compiler has allowed you to embed...

In my previous post I talked about how to use Flash Builder 4 to debug an AIR application running on an Android device. In this post I will show a poor man’s way of getting trace statements. You have to build the application with debug mode and apk-debug target packaging. Then before you run the application on the your device, connected the device to your desktop with USB debugging turned on. With that all setup run this command:>...