Posts Tagged ‘ActionScript3’

ActionScript3 Library for Yahoo! PlaceFinder Webservice released

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Last night, I released an other small library, which allows you to use the Yahoo! PlaceFinder Webservice with Flex and ActionScript3. The library is based on Parsley, because I have developed the library for my Last.fm projects which use Parsley as application framework.

Yahoo! PlaceFinder Webservice allows to find addresses based on address parts or GPS geolocation information (latitude and longitude).

As Yahoo will discontinue and shut down their Maps Web Service in September, the Yahoo PlaceFinder Webservice can be use as replacement of GeoCoding APIs of the Maps Web Service.

An example, the documentation and the library can be found here.

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Flash Mobile Device Simulation and Update for PlayBook Device Simulation released!

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

I released the first version of the Flash Mobile Device Simulation and an update of the PlayBook Device Simulation tonight. After the great response on the PlayBook Device Simulation, I decided to extend the solution and provide something similar for all mobile platforms supporting AIR applications. I recreated the ActionScript Simulation Library  and the AIR Simulator application from scratch. The Flash Mobile Device Simulation provides features which are available for all mobile platforms and core functionality for the comminication between the mobile application and the AIR Simulator application. The PlayBook Device Simulation extends the Flash Mobile Device Simulation with PlayBook specific features.

The first version of the Flash Mobile Device Simulation supports Geolocation and Accelerometer and provides the possibilty to import simulation information as XML data, for example as GPS Exchange Format 1.1 (GPX) waypoints.

Additionally to the new features of the Flash Mobile Device Simulation, the PlayBook Device Simulation was updated to implement the latest BlackBerry PlayBook SDK 1.0.1 and supports qnx.system.QNXSystem. To run the PlayBook Device Simulation, you have download both ActionScript libraries.

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First version of PlayBook Device Simulation released!

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Today, I released little private project “PlayBook Device Simulation” that allows to use PlayBook specific API when develop with the AIR Debug Launcher (ADL). The solution consists of two parts: an ActionScript3 Library (PlayBook Device Simulation) and an AIR application (PlayBook Device Simulator).

I ported some of the classes of the QNX AIR Library, so that the classes have some functions and variables (1:1). Currently supported classes and features: AudioManager, Device, MediaServiceConnection and QNXApplication. My solutions supports features, which can’t be test with the VMware Image of the PlayBook Device Simulator, like Power Management (Battery).  Another reason to test the solution is that won’t get any error messages (VerifyError: Error #1014: Class qnx.pps::PPSChannel could not be found) when using any of the supported classes.

Technically, I’m using the ServerSocket API of Adobe AIR to connect the Mobile AIR Application with the PlayBook Device Simulator. This allows a two communication between the Mobile AIR Application and the simulator.

Additional information about integration and usage can be found on the project site: http://www.patrick-heinzelmann.de/labs/playbookdevicesimulation

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Actionscript3 based Google Analytics Solution for Flash and Flex

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

If you wanted to track a Flash or Flex based application with  Google Analytics, you had to use the ExternalInterface to call the function of the JavaScript library. While search for a solution which isn’t using JavaScript, I found out that Google now provides some ActionScript3 libraries for Google Analytics.

You can find the documentation here and the libraries here.

The nice thing about the library is that you have the choice whether you want to use a ActionScript-Only solution or combine JavaScript and ActionScript. The only difference between both solutions is one parameter when calling of constructor of the tracker.

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