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Egg Timer Air released

Tuesday, 15 February 2011 by jonnysparkplugs

I've finished and uploaded my first Adobe Air Android app, you can find it here: https://market.android.com/details?id=air.com.indecentmonkey.eggtimerair


I am still waiting to hear back from RIM, but hopefully I will be able to submit it to the blackberry store as well!


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NumericStepper mobile mobile optimized skin (Flash builder burrito)

Saturday, 5 February 2011 by jonnysparkplugs

While I’ve been working on some Android/ Playbook apps with Air, I’ve noted a few spark components are not “mobile optimised”.  You have probably seen similar context information when coding:



I really wanted to use the NumericStepper in an Android app I’m currently working on.  So I created a new skin which makes the NumericStepper useable on a small device.  A running example can be found here (build as a web based project, not air) so you can run it in your browser.

You can also grab the source here or its available in the running project.


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HTC Desire + Flash Builder burrito

Wednesday, 19 January 2011 by jonnysparkplugs

Something else I've been meaning to post... I recently have started experimenting with creating Android apps in Flash builder (burrito) so I'm going to post some of the tests and hopefully final version of an app i've been working on here soon.

I've been testing my apps on my HTC desire which I've had for about 6 months now, i really like it although I would really like an upgrade to the Nexus S if anyone fancies buying me one.  Picture of my Desire running Android 2.3(gingerbread)[Oxygen]

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Nike Plus + Flex 4 + Robotlegs

by jonnysparkplugs

I should have posted this ages ago. Still better late then never. In October I was playing with robotlegs, anyhow this is what i created:

This is a Nike plus client that will display all the publicly available information from your account. This is just the run information. You need to know your NikePlus ID. By default the application has my NikePlus ID pre-populated.

Click on the screen shots below to find more information or view the running application here. You can download the source directly here or using the context menu in the running application.



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Robot legs is the best framework!

Thursday, 21 October 2010 by jonnysparkplugs

I recently attended Flex and the city; I was most excited to hear Richard Lord’s talk about frameworks. As I have been experimenting with Flex 4 (Flash Builder) and looking to move away from the cairngorm framework 2 as it is no longer developed and it has been superseded by cairngorm 3. Which is more designed to complement another framework and isn’t one itself. I’ve looked into various frameworks and was recommended by a friend to use experiment with robot legs.

Although he Richard didn’t say what framework was the best (for many reasons or although the most important was on the type of project). He did surmise that robot legs fitted the requirements of the majority of projects, and he seemed to highly recommend it!

You can view his slides here

I much preferred the 2nd Flash camp meet up in London then the 1st one as it was aimed at Flex developers rather than Flash. Although it would have been useful for Flash developers to attend as well.

Finally got some good freebies at the event! Thanks Adobe






























I’ll post my experiments with robot legs here and hopefully it will help other learn the framework.

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Posters for a good cause!

Tuesday, 25 May 2010 by jonnysparkplugs

One of my friends is trying to raise money to allow him to climb mount Kilimanjaro, it’s a for Macmillan Cancer Support which is great charity, you can donate money here: http://www.justgiving.com/cobleydoeskili
These are the two posters which I created (click for full size)  



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Creating custom components library (swc)

Sunday, 7 March 2010 by jonnysparkplugs

So you have created your custom components and you want to use them in multiply projects, you could add the source to every project, or you could create a swc.  A swc is a compiled collection of classes.
Click to view the previous example with the custom component compiled into a swc.

Example
Source

You can easily create a swc from within Adobe Flex builder; simply create a new Flex library project.  The example used above to build the swc can be found here.

Source 


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