List Directory with AIR in Flex 4
February 2, 2010
As you probably know already, with AIR you have access to the local file system. The following example shows you how you can list the contents of a directory with AIR in Flex 4. Besides showing filenames, I also want to display the icon associated with the file.
Save Data to File System with AIR in Flex 4
January 31, 2010
If you know Flex, you’re probably fimiliar with AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) as well. When developing AIR applications, you will get your hands on some additional functionality that can be very useful. One of which is the ability to read / write files from the file system. Combining this functionality with serialization gives you the opportunity to store data without creating databases, SQL statements etc. Check the example.
Create Tiny url Air App
December 27, 2009
You can create a Flex tiny url creator application using our explanation on one of our other pages.
But if you just want a nice tiny url creator desktop application, download our Adobe Air version.
You can copy paste your long url into the app, and get a nice short url back from http://snurl.eu Read more
Twitter Search with Flex Builder
December 7, 2009
If you are building a flex Twitter app there are some things you just cannot create this app without.
Especially this function. It’s a twitter search function build with Flex Builder.
Let’s say you want to let your application users search for twitter friends. Well with this function that is possible.
The code for this is actually not big and generated with the connection wizard adobe provides within the Flex Builder.
Connect to Twitter from AIR example
November 10, 2009
So everybody’s using Twitter now, so i thought it might be cool to write a small example to show you how you can connect to Twitter from an AIR application. The first thing you need is an API to connect to Twitter.
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