Android for ActionScript developers, part 2: Events and listeners

The first thing that made me pause when working with Java is discovering that it doesn’t have event listeners – at least not in the sense that I’ve come to expect based on my ActionScript experience. In ActionScript 3, you attach an event to an object like so: myObject.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDown); protected function onMouseDown(e:Event): void { […]

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A mobile AIR application post-mortem

With Kana Mind released (even if still in beta form), I figured I’d talk a little bit about the experience of writing a mobile application using Flash (and Adobe AIR) as a platform (there’s also the weird timing of Adobe announcing they won’t be updating the Flash plugin for mobile devices anymore, focusing instead on AIR apps). The […]

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Using StageText for AIR applications

Adobe AIR 3 includes a great new feature: StageText. Using the normal TextField for text input works just fine, but this new TextField-like class allows you to control your text input more closely (especially on mobile devices) with many options like auto capitalization, software keyboard type, and more. It has its caveats (it’s a separate class, […]

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The developer’s guide to browser adoption rates

Just posted a new article on NetMagazine: the developer’s guide to browser adoption rates. It analyzes the speed of adoption of new browser versions and compare them to each other, and to the Flash Player plugin adoption. Much like my old Flash video playback benchmark, this is one of those things that started with an […]

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