Flex Mobile: Two finger tap gesture to toggle actionBar visibility in a View (AIR for Android)
November 25, 2010
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Author: Arjan (47 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
Here’s a small example to show you how you can toggle the visibility of the actionBar of a View in a mobile flex application. I thought about a gesture that would be nice to use for showing and hiding the actionBar and thought that the two finger tap would be a good candidate for the job.
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TabbedMobileApplication Example in Flex Mobile (AIR for Android)
November 24, 2010
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Author: Arjan (47 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
So I’ve written a few post about mobile flex applications but all examples were based on a MobileApplication as a base for the application. Another option you have is a TabbedMobileApplication. This small example will show you how to use this to create your very own TabbedMobileApplication
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Using Swipe Gestures in Mobile Flex Application (AIR for Android)
November 22, 2010
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Author: Arjan (47 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
In my previous posts about Flex Mobile / AIR for Android I talked about navigation and transitions between views in a mobile application. This posts focuses on one of the great benefits of the things that devices are capable of today: gestures. There are a lot of them supported by Flex 4.5 / AIR for Android already. I’m going to give you a simple example for the Swipe Gesture.
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Flex Mobile View Transition Direction
November 16, 2010
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Author: Arjan (47 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
In my previous post I talked about navigation in a Mobile application, it works pretty straight forward, but every Transition with the pushView method from view to view plays in the same direction: from right to left, for popView and popToFirstView, transitions play from left to right. That’s fine, but in some cases you might want to specify your own direction.
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View Navigation in a Mobile Flex Application
November 14, 2010
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Author: Arjan (47 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
Since Adobe MAX i’ve been playing around with mobile flex/AIR applications. What I found out is the fact that there isn’t a lot of info on the web yet if you’re looking for stuff. This post will be pretty basic, but it should get you started with developing for mobile devices (Android 2.2 that is). Of course you’ll need the Flash Builder Burrito beta to get started and the Flex 4.5 SDK (included in burrito).
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