In this blog I’ll show how to create a custom cell renderer skin for the QNX UI component List class. The custom cell renderer will display an image, text, and box beneath the text for affect. The List class implements virtualization of the cell renderers and reuses instances of the objects that are displayed as [...]
Category Archives: AIR
Check out the latest development beta bits for developing applications for the PlayBook. Video covering the new Beta3 or BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK/Simulator 0.9.2 for Adobe AIR: Run Through of PlayBook Beta3 AIR SDK Updates from Renaun Erickson on Vimeo. Highlights: Differences of old simulator and new simulator New simulator portrait mode simulation Sample HelloWorld [...]
BlackBerry released some new beta bits for the PlayBook device and Tablet OS recently. As part of the latest beta release for the PlayBook, the WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS was introduced (that's for another post). Along with the introduction of WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS the update to the Tablet OS SDK for Adobe [...]
NOTE: Some of the values have changed in AIR 2.6 see the latest post here. The relationship between the screen resolution and physical size of the device is very important to know when building multi-screen applications. The AIR and Flash Player runtimes provide information about the hardware capabilities through a set of APIs. The sad [...]
If you want to use the latest AIR 2.5 Runtime on the Android emulator you will need to look for it in two locations. Location #1 is Flex 4.5+ SDK (example below is Burrito but its relative to 4.5 SDK install): Adobe Flash Builder Burrito/sdks/4.5.0/runtimes/air/android/emulator/Runtime.apk Location #2 is in Flash Professional CS5 with the AIR [...]
One of the less known facts about the Flex SDK and all its various parts is that MXML != Flex. MXML is a markup language that gets turned into ActionScript by mxmlc. With a little bit of knowledge of some metadata and willingness to build a bit of plumbing into a container class you can [...]
UPDATED:People where having issues and I wanted to confirm it works with the latest BlackBerry Tablet OS 0.9.4 SDK/Plugin The BlackBerry Tablet OS provides a few extra AIR API's. One of these API's is the QNXStageWebView. It provide works a lot like the AIR 2.5 mobileDevice profile's StageWebView, but provides specific hooks into the PlayBook's [...]
The beta release of Flash Player 10.2 on Adobe labs is really code. It provides early access to some really cool features. One of those features is the ability to us bitmaps on native cursors. Not just fake hide the mouse cursor and display your own bitmap, but actually providing the OS the bitmap to [...]
My fellow Adobe Evangelist Daune wrote a nice application using Flash Builder Burrito and Flex Hero that browsers a devices file system and lets you see the details of the files. I wanted to see what this application looked like on the PlayBook.
