In my last Air for Android article I have explained how to load a local XML file in a Flash CS5 Android application.
Anyway, if you need to load a REMOTE xml file, you can use the same AS3 code, making a little change to your xml-descriptor file, otherwise you won’t be able to load a remote file.

When you’re working with Air for Android, you could often need to load application settings (or something else) from a local XML file.

Another new feature in AIR for Android is the way to manage the orientation event.
To accomplish this task you can now use the orientationChange event that is dispatched every time the user changes its phone orientation.
However, in the current beta release I got some problems to use this event because I wasn’t able to get the right stage size.
So I have decided to use the standard Event.RESIZE event and the new deviceOrientation property.
In other words, when the user changes the phone orientation, the Event.RESIZE will be dispatched and inside the …

Wow!!! Finally Adobe Flash on my phone… again.
I was waiting for it from the first Flashlite version on Nokia S60.
Infact, after the previous FlashLite experience, Adobe is working on the Adobe AIR version for mobile devices available on all Android phones with OS > 2.2 (the last version in this moment, codename Froyo)
Now it’s still in a beta, so it’s not officially available on your Flash CS5, but it will be available soon.

When you write AIR desktop applications you can create menu bars very similar to the OS native menu.
In this sample we set a custom Window menu (on Microsoft os) or an application menu (using MAC os) in according with the installed OS.

In questo articolo analizzeremo le funzionalità di Adobe AIR per la gestione di database SQLite.
Realizzeremo una piccola anagrafica clienti utilizzando Adobe AIR in ambiente Flex 3, sfruttando ActionScript 3.0 e SQL al fine di:
1) creare un database che conterrà una tabella “Clienti” con i seguenti campi:
a. ID
b. NOME_CLIENTE,
c. COGNOME_CLIENTE
2) creare un piccolo form per l’inserimento nel db di un nuovo cliente (nome e cognome)
3) effettuare una query per la visualizzazione in un datagrid di tutti i clienti inseriti