A guide to showing you on how to setup Chromium to be able to install Chrome Web Applications and Extensions written in Flash. Both from local .crx files and from the Developer Dashboard. With a discussion on what the possibilities this offers Flash Developers in the future with regards to Google Chrome’s Licensing API and capabilities to extend Applications using Experimental API’s.
An in depth tutorial showing you how to set up an FDT 4 workspace with Android’s ADT plugin, creating a project exporting both Android .apk and Air desktop .air files, Running an Ant script to install the Air 2.5 runtime and your .apk file to emulator, running an Android 2.2 emulator displaying your Air application and finally showing trace() statements through Logcat and filtering LogCat logs as well. With the aim by the end of the post to have you set up in an environment creating Android Air applications ready for when Adobe releases Air 2.5.
Being an unashamed FDT addict this was a treat to find in my inbox from Marvin Blase, An FDT community feed for all FDT articles on the web which has just launched.
This one for me should be a default but to make linked libraries in FDT editable you need to head over to the misc preferences panel and tick enable working in linked libraries
So more and more often lately I’ve been embedding asset swfs published through the Flash IDE as a way to interface with design teams and build component based library assets. This was going all fine when the library items where being used without much interference with my code, but inevitably that time happened. Which led [...]
Having a problem with Firefox & Internet Explorer returning 0 for your Flash projects stage? I’ve felt your pain and documented the work around I’ve used, because I know it doesn’t make any sense that after Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE has been fired you still don’t actually have the stage…
Its no secret that I spend a large portion of my development time in Powerflasher’s FDT, which is a pleasure but however awesome FDT is in comparison to its competitors there is allays ways to make things easier. So I’ve compiled together a set of Ant scripts and Eclipse plugins which I use on a daily basis to streamline working in FDT. Solving problems like case conversion, working with the Flash IDE, Handling image assets, Embedding fonts and GIT commits.
A very simple function which comes in handy every now and again. removeExtension removes any URL queries from a domain string and also removes any file extensions too, eg stripping an image url’s string to just the file name.
Having just looked over the Adobe MAX 2009 Finalist’s I thought I’d chip in about why I voted for what, with the easiest first. Big & Small by Plug In Media Having a look through the entries in entertainment the first one to instantly stick in my mind to get a vote would be Plug [...]
Having been following Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow for quite some time I made sure that if he came to London to do a dead drop I would give it a go. My time came when he announced his London Dead Drop when he was speaking in town. After thinking that like many other Dead Drop’s Lee had done it would be too hard, it turned out that I had managed to solve the first few sets of clues. This is my explanation of how I managed to go ahead and then win Adobe’s CS4 Master Collection after a series of clues involving, gps co-ordinates, decoding sound waves, decompiling fake swfs and various others.