AIR 2.6 provides updates to the old Packager for iPhone (PFI). The packager binary is now part of the normal AIR packaged called adt. The new adt options are just like the old pfi packager options, see below: adt -package -target ( ipa-test | ipa-debug | ipa-app-store | ipa-ad-hoc ) CONNECT_OPTIONS? SIGNING_OPTIONS <output-package> ( FILE_OPTIONS [...]
Category Archives: Devices
A question came up from a developer that was creating a Flex Hero (the 4+ Flex SDK geared towards mobile) mobile application about tapping into the PlayBook's bezel swipe down event, but also be able to use the SWF on other platforms. PlayBook is a great platform that QNX, a subsidary of RIM, has created [...]
So this is a little tip that has been coming up more and more often because of the need to export applications to the various package types (.bar, .apk, .ipa) and tooling not quite being there (or plugin support out of sync etc...). The proper way to create a non-debug version of a specific package [...]
I recently participated in the BlackBerry Developer Day co-presenting the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Bootcamp: Adobe AIR sessions. We led developers through the process of installing all the tools (Flash Builder Burrito, VMWare, BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK and Simulator) and getting up and running to build their first application. As part of this presentation I wanted [...]
First thing is to note this is a workaround and might not work in the future or might not cover all the errors you might see. Take the simple use case of creating an AIR application for PlayBook and with a qnx.ui.text.TextInput component in the display list. Because the qnx.ui.text.TextInput class allows you to define [...]
I continue to play with different ideas around using QNX (ActionScript 3 only classes) with MXML (non-Flex MXML) in a project called QMXML. My co-worker, Piotr Walczyszyn, at Adobe posted some classes to that provide view based navigation in ActionScript 3. I decided to extend his classes and make them work with QMXML. The source [...]
I wanted to show how to use another QNX AIR API, specifically the class AudioManager. It provides a singleton instance of the AudioManager which gives access to the available inputs and outputs on the device. You can then set the levels and mute state of both input and output. In the example code project QNXAudioManager [...]
UPDATE: RIM has provide documentation on the blackberry-tablet.xml located here. With the release of the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR Beta 3 (0.9.2) developers have access to a new PlayBook application descriptor file called "blackberry-tablet.xml". This file has to be named exactly "blackberry-tablet.xml" and be placed in the root of the application structure, [...]
The PlayBook has a few different Keyboard types depending on what type of input the user is asked to provide. The BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR allows the developer to assign what type of keyboard should be shown for a specific input box. For the video and images below I used an example [...]
I created this game called PickQuick for demoing and testing applications across screens. I have previously demo'd this working across various devices, but recently at the #jivhack (hackathon in Chicago this last weekend) I decided to code in the support for TV remotes and get it running on the TV with AIR for TV. Here [...]
