Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) is an interesting product released from Adobe that allows content providers and developers to easly create rich media players in ActionScript 3.0, also providing a lot of tools to create web-based video monetization applications.

“Fabio Biondi Lab” is a free application for Android smartphones and tablets to read my blog articles, watch my prototype videos and provide info about my services.

Using native IP-only multicast feature available with Adobe AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 you can easly establish a connection and share real-time data between two or more clients over the same network (LAN).
The immediate advantage you can get from this tecnique is that you won’t need to use a dedicated server (like Flash Media Server, AFCS, and so on) to share real-time data across multiple clients.
Another cool stuff is that you can use P2P to share data between mobile Air for Android apps and desktop AIR applications, and …

Air for Android and AIR 2.0 supports the location sensor, so it’s now possible using the Geolocation class to obtain the current geographical location of a mobile device (latitudine and longitude).
When I have tested this new feature on my device (Google Nexus One), the first thought in my mind has been how to display this location using Google Map and update the map every time my position changes (for example using my car).

So I have created a new Air for Android file in Flash CS5 (but it should works in …

…..finally yes!!
I have published on my YouTube Channel a new video where i show how the same ActionScript 3.0 code (a photogallery IPhone style) can works on multiple devices: Apple, Android, desktop and web.

I have done a simple comparative launching the same AIR application on an Android phone (Google Nexus One) and the last an IPod Touch (iOS4) without any mobile optimization.
So I have simply compiled and published a Box2d sample on both devices at the same resolution.
Android phone seems to work really fast and can move tens of boxes, while the IPod slows after 8-9 objects.

This month I spent a lot of time to test the new interesting features of Air for Android but I didn’t really pay attention about performance.
So, last weeks, when one of my friends finally got the Apple certificate and he told me that IPhone/Air performance really sucks I decided to spent a day to understand how really Adobe Air for Android is fast.

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 …