// Playground of Jens Krause
If you package an Native Extensions for latest Adobe AIR 3.0 you will have an option for signing it with a certificate as well.
The packaging process of creating ANE (ActionScript Native Extension) files is already well documented (check “Packaging a native extension” at Adobes AIR documentation). However, it’s not easy to find a detailed instruction for signing an ANE file. Maybe because it is optionally… Here are few tips:
Renaun Erickson did a great job to describe the usage of the Flash Builder Burrito plugin for BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR. However, if you have already used Burrito as a plug-in version for Eclipse (and not as a standalone version), it will not find the new installed PlayBook SDK by default. Therefore you have to do a further step “by hand”.
Flex 4 is Rock ‘n’ Roll! However, Flex 4 is still beta and it can’t be perfect right now. Today one of the most missing feature for me is using the ApplicationUpdaterUI of the Adobe AIR Update Framework in Flex 4. This bug is already documented. (BTW: Please vote here to fix this issue! )
Anyway, I can’t wait for the final release of Flex 4, so I decided to build a custom ApplicationUpdaterUI component based on the new Spark skinning architecture. The custom ApplicationUpdaterUI is built on the top of the current version of Adobes AIR Update Framework and most of the current features are available (e.g. auto check, localization etc.) The component is full skinnable using it as an external window (as before) or as an embedded view component in an application (without the need of a popup window).
ThunderBolt AS3, which is a lightweight logger extension for Flex 3-4, AIR and Flash 9-10 applications, has been updated to version 2.2.
Check out the new features:
First of all thanks Adobe for sponsoring a Thawte certificate after adding ThunderBolt AS3 Console to the new Adobe Marketplace!
If you will ever certificate an existing AIR app with a new certificate, such as a Thawte certificate, you have to migrate it.
About two months ago Sönke Rohde, a good friend of me and a very active contributor of the Swiz framework, told me about his experiences using Swiz and he recommended highly Swiz as a framework which seems brutally simple to use. For all the people out there who are not familiar with Swiz: Swiz is an IoC framework created by Chris Scott to simplify the development of Flex based RIAs.
UPDATE [10/26/08]: Source of the extensions and the example as well has been moved to the project called ‘mate-examples’ on Google Code
If you are using Mate for application development based on Adobe AIR you may need an extension for using SQLite, because its in Mate currently not built in. It seems that only one extension by Miran Loncaric available, which depends on Eric Feminellas SQLService. Unfortunately this Mate extension lacks for using result or fault handlers, using prepared SQLStatements, parameters etc.
Adobe AIR 1.1 is out of the door right now. But it seems that there is no integrated update mechanism for Flex Builder 3 Eclipse Plug-In using the new version of Adobe AIR. Anyway, its pretty easy to setup it manually.
Here a step by step tutorial on OS X:
Almost one year ago I started to develop a small extension called ThunderBolt AS3 for logging ActionScript 3 applications using Firebug as simple as possible. Today its nice to see that the community uses and supports this extension as well.
For all those who not familiar with it: ThunderBolt AS3 is a lightweight logger extension for any ActionScript 3 applications based on Flash CS3, Flex or Adobe AIR using Firebug or its own ThunderBolt AS3 Console.
Here are some tips and tricks using ThunderBolt AS3:
ThunderBolt AS3 is a lightweight logger extension for Flex or Flash application using Firebug. With its new tool called ThunderBolt AS3 Console, which based on Adobe AIR, it’s independent on Firebug. That’s incredible helpful for logging AIR applications using ThunderBolt AS3.