Comments on: ( Air + Android ) – Air

By: Pavel

Pavel — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:04:04 +0000

Try Gestouch for better gestures (Flash).. and give some feedback please=)
https://github.com/fljot/Gestouch

By: Mathieu Gosselin

Mathieu Gosselin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:20:56 +0000

The best bet to save images to your phone is using the cameraroll class. It will compress it automatically in jpeg and put it in the right folder automatically.
Simply:

var cameraRoll : CameraRoll = new CameraRoll();	
cameraRoll.addBitmapData(bitmapData);

By: nicoptere

nicoptere — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:37:29 +0000

thanks guys :)

@george yep I’ve seen that , I should give it a try before losing my sanity trying to make OpenGL work :)

@tarwin one thing at a time, Haxe still seems too hairy for now.
and yes I guess NativeExtensiont or NativeProcess could do the trick
I’ll spare a couple of bottles for the next time :)

@Daniel in FD4 there is an Android template and pretty much everything is automated (*.bat files)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:05:00 +0000

Quick question, why are you using Flashdevelop4 instead of 3?

By: Tarwin

Tarwin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:41:59 +0000

Awe – you gave up on the haxe? You can get some sweet native performance there too (on iOS too)!

I think the main problem with the JPEG Encoder is that it runs in the same thread AND is pretty slow anyway. I know there are some optimized versions, maybe one that uses Alchemy opcodes, but I think it’s only available as an SWC.

You could also look at “simply” creating a NativeExtension for Air Android (is that possible) that does the encoding and sends some kind of signal when it’s done …

Keep it up you crazy bastard! I need wine for my children!

By: Nicolas Gans

Nicolas Gans — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:28:11 +0000

The link to the Android version is broken…
edit nicoptere: true, fixed, thanks :)

By: George Profenza

George Profenza — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:38:10 +0000

Nice detailed post :)

If it makes it easier to doodle, might want to give Processing a go ;)
Version 1.5 has an ‘Android Mode’ which is nice. (http://www.creativeapplications.net/android/mobile-app-development-processing-android-tutorial/)

By: Philippe

Philippe — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:11:06 +0000

As a matter of fact, with latest FD4 you should let FD’s setup download the latest Flex SDK and you shouldn’t need to download the pretty huge Android SDK – unless you’re going to try coding in Java of course, which is a good idea too.

By: Nicolas Gans

Nicolas Gans — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:33:59 +0000

To the question : “why using a VM inside a VM when one could just skip the second VM”
My answer would be : “because you can do cross-platform apps easily !”
The whole benefit of AIR for mobile is to target multiple platforms…
If you want to make Android only devs, go Java and native Android SDK !

Nice post BTW, I’m sure it’s the beginning of great things… and thanks for the mention ;)