Parsing XML is one of the major pain points in development. Without exact syntax you’re left scratching your head. After visiting the same collection of links over and over, I’ve decided to consolidate the more useful syntax into a single post. All examples can be used with both JavaScript and ActionScript as they are both […]
Link Directly to the Mobile Android Market
With one line of code you can open up the mobile Android market from within your app! You can open the market to a specific application or to a page listing all of your apps. This is a great way to cross sell your applications and limit the number of clicks for a user to […]
Publishing Apps to iOS, Android and BlackBerry with AIR
Using Flash Builder Burrito and the Flash IDE you can export your ActionScript projects to three mobile platforms without any change in code! Let’s take a look at how to make this possible. Before we get started, here is a video with one of my demo apps running on all three devices: Multi-screen: The variety […]
Simple TextFlow Example
Talk about under-documented and over-complicated. The new Text Layout Framework has been a headache to use. It took far too long to get underlined, padded, editable text. Hopefully this example will save someone else the pain. After downloading Flash Builder I thought it would be fun to check out the new Text Layout Framework. While […]