Posts tagged BlackBerry Playbook

Handling Form Fields in Flex 4.5 / AIR Mobile

4
13 years
by in Flex

While doing mobile development, one of the most frustrating things has been form input.
If you’ve looked at any Playbook development, you’ll see QNX has something called ReturnKeyType specifically for this reason.
Being as stubborn as I am, I wanted a plain Flex approach at accomplishing what I wanted, and not to use the QNX library.

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Flash Builder Max Preview migration guide to Flash Builder 4.5

1
13 years
by in Flex

Most of this actually is related to Mobile development with AIR, considering there isn’t a bunch of desktop development focus in the SDK.

Adobe released an early version of Flex 4.5 (Flex Her0) just before Adobe MAX last year, and tons of people grabbed it and started writing mobile apps with it.
Since then, quite a bit has changed both in common functionality, and under-the-hood things like List scrolling.

I couldn’t find any clear documentation about migrating your applications, so I figured I’d try to throw together as much information as I could think of.

I will be updating this frequently as I find more changes or caveats while converting my apps, or from what I hear from others.
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A Plea to Developers and Markets

5
13 years
by in Rants

-or- How not to cruddy up our Markets…

Yeah… This is a rant guys… If you don’t agree, tell me – but take rude comments elsewhere. Comments will be open for as long as I can tolerate it (assuming anyone comments at all).

Get ready for a long read – and a lot of personal frustration; this won’t be pretty…
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