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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Flex on Mobile devices
October 27, 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.
I’m fortunate enough to visit the Adobe MAX this year. After two days of MAX its time to post something here. One of the most exiting things is the AIR on mobile stuff (android for now, more support in the future).
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SWIZ Framework in Flex 4 Example: Part II
September 19, 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.
Welcome to part II of the SWIZ Framework in Flex 4. In my previous post about SWIZ in Flex 4, I talked about some basic features of SWIZ. In this one, we are going to tie some things together using SWIZ and use one of it’s coolest features: Event Handling.
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Flex Blog visits Adobe MAX 2010
September 11, 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.
A while ago my boss called me and told me I could visit the Adobe MAX this year. I was there in 2007, but not in 2008 and 2009. I’m very excited to go there again and follow some great sessions. Of course I am going to focus on the developer track, but hopefully get some design inspiration as well.
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SWIZ Framework in Flex 4 Example: Part I
August 6, 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.
A few weeks ago I posted about the SWIZ Framework. The post was useless, but I was so enthusiastic about SWIZ, that I had to post something at that time. This post will be more usefull, I promise. Lets see how we can get the SWIZ Framework working in combination with the Flex 4 SDK.
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Dynamic AdvancedDataGridColumn in Flex 4
August 4, 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.
This little example shows you how you can add an AdvancedDataGrid column to your AdvancedDataGrid dynamically.
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How to make a magnetic button in Flex 4
June 30, 2010
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Author: Janez Feldin (6 Articles) - Author Website
Janez likes to experiment with flash in his own free time. His other hobbies are playing volleyball, listening to the music, watching movies and above all else, paragliding.
I have made a simple example on what most people refer to as magnetic (button) on the web. By extending the standard button you are able to do such a thing with Flex 4.
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Using ASDoc as an External Tool in Flash Builder 4
June 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.
When developing Flex and AIR applications for clients / customers it’s always nice to deliver a structured structured Flash Builder project with well documented sources.
Similar to JavaDoc for Java, Actionscript has the opportunity to use a tool that generates HTML files in which you can navigate through all your project packages, ActionScript Classes and MXML files. ASDoc is essentially a command line tool, but you can configure Eclipse / Flash Builder in such a way that you can run ASDoc with a click of a button. This example show you how to do this.
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