Updating to AIR 2.0 Barriers

Now that Adobe 2.0 is released it’s time to update some older apps to use the new APIs.
The process to update seems kind of complicated and definitely worth a blog post. In my special case I am upgrading from an self signed 1.5.2 app to a self signed 2.0 app.

Since 1.5.3 the publisherID works differently [...]

Twitter AS3 OAuth Lib with Flex 4 example

I have build a little Twitter AS3 library which handles Twitter OAuth authentication and let’s you update your Twitter status. The lib basically uses the OAuth AS3 lib and should be a good example how to use the actual OAuth lib.

This is still basic functionality but since it’s open source someone may fork and extend [...]

Swiz Desktop for AIR support

When you develop AIR applications you see repeating tasks which you have in all projects. You need to take care about the update process and online status. I am developing all my applications with the Swiz framework so I tried to come up with some re-usable code which fits nicely into Swiz.

Source and Download

Get source [...]

FlairLoc Public Beta

FlairLoc is an Adobe® AIR™ application to localize Adobe® Flex® applications.

Today I am happy to announce that the public beta of FlairLoc is available.

Features

Change resources in a user interface with search capability
Extract resource keys from source code and synchronizes it with all locale sets
Automatic translation into 42 languages with the Google Translate API
Add new automatic [...]

YouTube AS3 example

Today YouTube finally released an ActionScript 3 API. Maybe this was accelerated by the move of Vimeo because they came up with an AS3 API last week.

I have build a little AIR client as an example application. Check my YouTubeAS3 project on github for the source code. The example of course uses the Swiz framework.

The [...]

High level AS3/Flex library for OAuth with Twitter from AIR

Recently I have played again with the Twitter API and finally have OAuth working. When I have first played with the Twitter API I have used the example from Tour de Flex. The example loads up the friends list and uses the Twitter AS3 API. The API is not really my taste but offers the [...]