Posts tagged AIR
Use AIR 2.0 SDK with Flex 4.0
Nov 21st
As you may have heard, AIR 2.0 (codename “Athena”) is now available on Adobe Labs. I won’t make you a list of all the cool new features, everything is well explained here. I’m going to show you a way to merge Flex 4.0 sdk with AIR’s which was kind of a pain for me : I tried a few commands like “mv -v”, “tar” (using the linux release), I even tried to do it manually. None of them worked, so I asked on the Adobe official forum and I discovered ditto (remember, I’m using MacOs X) :
ditto air_sdk flex_sdk
And voila! air_sdk folder’s content will be merge with flex_sdk’s (existing files are replaced). Now it’s working and I already had fun playing with Native API :
PHP Console
Blog post coming soon!
Flex is bloat
Nov 9th
I’m sure some of you may be kind of intrigued with this (really provocative) title, considering the fact that I’m a huge Flex fan. I don’t have much experience with this framework, but I really enjoyed using it for the past months. Also, I just love DestroyTwitter, a (really awesome) Twitter client built with AIR by Jonnie Hallman.
One day, I asked him (by email, never met him) if DT was built with Flex or if it’s was pure AS3, this is what he said to me :
[...] It was developed in pure AS3. Flex is bloat-Jonnie
I’m not going to say this kept me up at night, but I’ve been thinking about it lately and going back to Crumblr, I started to get pissed at Flex (mostly because of MXML) and I wondered if a pure AS3 application wouldn’t be the solution.
With that in mind, I decided to restart Crumblr (which wasn’t that advanced, to be honnest) and I won’t use Flex for this project.
Wait & See!