When handling support requests for some of the Market Apps that I developed I sometimes received the question if an app runs on one device or another. Since most of my apps are designed to run with a minimum of resources it’s enough to know if that device runs Flash or not. Until lately searching [...]
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Avoid browser caching with Flash/Flash builder with the random number trick
A simple way to avoid caching of static files that get replaced sometimes is by appending a ?r=randomNumber to the filename. For webservers everything behind the ? are dynamic parameters using the format variable1=value1&variable2=value2… and so on. As long as you don’t handle those parameters in your scripts they get ignored by the server. The [...]
Publishing Flash SWFs on Blackberry Playbook using SWFLoader
If you develop for the Blackberry Playbook you are required to use Flash Builder. Since I had a row of titles have been written for Flash and there’s no easy way to convert the code in between those two development solutions I tried to load the compiled Flash SWF into Flash Builder. After a few [...]
Getting AIR 2.5 which is required for RIM Blackberry Playbook development
Since Adobe brought out version 2.6 of AIR, the links for AIR 2.5 got removed. Luckily there’s an archive for old versions of AIR: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/853/cpsid_85304.html Here the direct download links: http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.5/AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2 http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/mac/download/2.5/AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2 http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/win/download/2.5/AdobeAIRSDK.zip
Fixing the blackberry simulator vmware player just showing a black screen after the boot logo
If you run into this issue make sure you: Give the virtual machine at least 8GB of harddisc space Give the virtual machine at least 1GB of memory Activate the graphics hardware acceleration You can only modifiy those values when the VM is powered off.