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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category
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 [...]
Demonstration of Steve Jobs favourite HTML5-Technology on the iPad
Steven Job said that Flash is too slow for the iOs platform, then claiming HTML 5 would be the better solution. To see how great HTML5 works on the iPad, watch this: Seems Mr. Jobs didn’t knew what he was talking about. The same demos on Android:
System hard disc running full when using Adobe Media Encoder
Running Adobe Media Encoder on a system with a virus scanner, AME might not delete its cache/work files. Those files can be several gigabytes of size. To delete those cache files go to: [users folder]\[your profile]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common There you’ll find a folder “Media Cache Files”, delete everything inside. Make sure AME is closed when you do [...]
Using Local Shared Object (Flash Cookies) to display different content depending on if it’s the first visit or not
A friend asked for some help with displaying content only on the first visit of a site. This is the example I wrote for him: // request the flash cookie/local shared object with the name “someCookieId” var myFlashCookie:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal(“someCookieId”); // check if the field “isFirstStart” is set if(myFlashCookie.data["isFirstStart"]==undefined){ // the field “isFirstStart” is not [...]
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 [...]
Mobile multiplatform development solutions for AppStore/StoreKit In App Payments/Abos
Appcelerator Titanium: Yes Appcelerator offers the Titanium+ program. There’s are three versions of this program and you need to chose either the small business or the enterprise versions. After reading complains from many users about high/excessive prices I tried to contact the publishers hoping I would be able to provide you with more detailed informations [...]
Adobe Flash CS5 and Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 (Burito)
Be carefull with installing the latest Flash Builder 4.5 (Burito) beta. It comes with a flash player that can damage the debugging process in Flash CS5. If you installed the Flash Builder Beta your CS5 Flash Player might show one of the following behaviours: Random crashes of the internal preview – only on the debug [...]
Flash CS5 Debug mode focus switching bug
If you run into the flash cs5 debugger focus switching but where every trace action makes the focus switch into the actionscript display of the IDE, forcing you to manually select the flash movie constantly there’s an easy fix: Press the Debug button on the top right of the IDE, then select “Reset Debug”. This [...]