Category Archives: AIR

Adobe Integrated Runtime

Converting Flex 3 Microphone application to Flex 4 (part 1)

For AIR 2.0 release on labs.adobe.com I created a Microphone Example application showcasing the new feature that allows access to raw microphone data in Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. This application is a custom chrome AIR application that uses a lot of CSS and embedding of assets, both fonts and images. I figured it [...]

PHP Script for Stratus Video Phone Sample Application

Stratus is an Adobe technology up on labs that allows for Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5 RTMFP real time communication connections. The most important features of RTMFP include low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security and scalability.
As part of the labs release there are an article and sample application.
Article 1
Stratus Sample Application
The Stratus Sample [...]

Optimized Adobe Flash Player 10 for Devices

More things are heating up around the Open Screen Project. At CTIA Wireless conference Adobe Systems Incorporated and Texas Instruments Incorporated announced a technology collaboration to optimize Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® for the TI’s OMAPâ„¢ mobile applications platform.
This has always been one of my personal favorite areas Adobe is now more fully [...]

ITunesMetadataReader using Metaphile

The ITunesMetadataReader application is a very basic AIR example of how to use the new Metaphile project to read out MOV (H.264) file metadata. The source of the project is included in the AIR application, to access it right-click on the application and click view source.
The Metaphile project is on google code and now [...]

QTIndexSwapper AIR Application for Flash Player H.264 files

2010.06.16 UPDATE: Get the latest here!
2007.12.28 UPDATE: v1.3 of QTIndexSwapper requires AIR Beta 3
With the release of the Flash Player 9 Update that supports H.264, we can now play a subset of H.264 movie files. The problem is most of the H.264 files have the index at the end of the file which for [...]

AIR, Flex, LocalConnection and the mystery StatusEvent

I have had some code working for a while that stopped working with the latest build of Flex Builder 3 I installed. The code was an AIR application that received messages from arbitrary Flex applications using LocalConnection. The problem with LocalConnection and AIR is the inherent security issues that arise. AIR is [...]

Win $100,000 writing AIR apps

There is a new derby that is going along with the release of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). The prizes are just plain crazy. I haven’t seen a derby this big. The grand prize will be a trip of a lifetime worth up to $100,000. Their will also be 5 other category [...]

ApolloCamp footage on Diggnation, I am a Star!

Diggnation Epsiode 90 (March 22, 2007) has some interesting content, at least the first 6 minutes. This episode was sponsored by Adobe Apollo Project, they showed footage of the ApolloCamp, and they talked about Apollo Google Maps VCard Apollo application. The footage of the ApolloCamp has yours truly, you can find me looking [...]

Apollo on Slashdot

If you haven’t noticed Apollo made it up on Slashdot. Its always a chore to read through all the posts/tangents. Some of the funny things I kept seeing where people calling it “Appolo”. Alot of posts of course where on parts of the EULA and licensing lock down paranoia.
Here are [...]

LiveCycle Data Services and Apollo

When I read the release notes about Flex Data Services new release on labs, as well as the name change to LiveCycle Data Services, I was interested in learning more about the Apollo integration. Steven Webster’s website seems to have a good overview, an in particular the paragraph below explains a use case for [...]