Problem: The TwitPic API does not currently support outgoing requests and the image source from amazon aws contains an AWS AccessKeyId, expiration time stamp, and signature. This would normally require a regular expression to rip the source JPG path out of the HTML. Ripping the source out of the HTML is a bit of a […]
Validate Twitter Credentials in AIR
Problem: Your AIR application needs to validate the username / password and handle failure gracefully within the application. If the user enters the wrong information you do not want them to be prompted with a windows prompt asking them to enter their Twitter username / password. If the application needs to hold on to the […]
Post to TwitPic from Adobe AIR
TwitPic is a service that lets you share photos on Twitter by generating a tiny url to the image being uploaded. The flash.filesystem.File class allows Adobe AIR to post an image to TwitPic. By specifying the username, password and posting method it is possible to submit a query to the TwitPic API. This can be […]
SQLite in AIR
When doing research on integrating a SQLite Database into AIR I came across the following useful resources: Learn what SQLite is About: Introduction to the SQLite Database – David Tucker Getting Started: Introduction to SQLite in Adobe AIR Tool for Creating and Modifying SQLite Databases: SQLite Firefox Extension By using a SQLite database it will […]