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AIR for Android - StageWebView and Video (YouTube iFrame)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:52:08 GMT

Hey all,

I've been converting an iOS tablet app over to Android and I've noticed the StageWebView has some curious limitations, especially with anything that accessed the GPU (video, etc).

At first the embedded YouTube (iframe) videos would just show the first frame of the video dutifully with the usual play button. When pressed, the video went black and all I heard was audio. The reason I even mention this is it took quite a while to locate this Adobe page with a section entitled "Enabling Flash Player and other plug-ins in a StageWebView object". So I added in the application tag to enable the plugins with acceleration (<application android:hardwareAccelerated="true"/>) and now I can see video.

The erratic thing is on ICS (Android 4.0.x) the video plays in the StageWebView but it horizontally closes to about 20% its normal width. The video player doesn't scale to 20% width, the iframe is just somehow collapsing to that narrow width removing the ability to see 80% of the video or use the controls (e.g. no fullscreen button visible).

When tested on Jelly Bean (4.1.x) the video does not pinch horizontally, it (amusingly) plays horizontally backwards (mirrored) and upside down.

Previously with hardwareAccelerated="true" missing I could press play and then toggle fullscreen and the video would work fine. After adding hardwareAccelerated="true" I can no longer use fullscreen, it crashes the devices after locking up.

I also tried appending ?html5=1 to the YouTube videos to force GoogleAPI to choose a HTML5 player. This didn't do anything.

Has anyone found the sacred tome of knowledge required to get an embedded YouTube video to play in a StageWebView iframe?

AIR 15 (latest), Undefined symbols for architecture armv7

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:08:00 GMT

Anyone else getting any errors compiling (FB4.7) using the latest AIR 15 such as:

Undefined symbols for architecture armv7: _traits:AOTBuildOutput-0000000200_21:114::Span referenced from _AOTBuildOutput-0000000200_21:736:Edge in AOTBuildOutput-0000000200_21.o ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture armv7 Compilation failed while executing : ld64

Compiling with AIR 14 doesn't give the error but lacks any of the v15 OS8 updates.

EDIT:

I've made no progress removing this error but have removed all of my ANEs from the project. That rules out any legacy Obj-c ANE code that might have been causing the issue. I have also used both the release and beta version of AIR 15, both producing the identical error.

Any information on this error would be helpful. Typically a file/line number is produced in these errors indicating where to look but the above error only indicates "Span referenced from .. :Edge" which does not relate to any code in the project. The only SWCs used are Greensock Tweenlite and a Flash Pro exported SWC with only graphics.

I'll report this to the bug (wishform) if no information turns up here that remedies the issue.

RE-EDIT:

I should have followed a single step regiment to narrow it down but I did 3 things at once and I'm unsure which might have fixed it.

1) I have a SWF that contains graphics which I load off the filesystem. It was exporting that SWF at Flash Player v12 (I have no need to export higher, or so I thought). I just targeted FP15 and re-exported those SWFs.

2) I updated my greensock library to the latest (this is what I think actually caused the issue, if it's not #1)

3) I removed a TLFTextField considering they're not rendering (I was still using CS6 with TLFTextFields) and exported from Flash Pro CC 2014 to FP15 as mentioned in #1.

One of the 3 fixed the issue. I can now export with no error, even when using the ANEs. Hope it helps someone.

Message was edited by: sinious

Stereoscopic (3D), embedding the 'type' in a video

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:33:59 GMT

Hey all,

I've read in some forums (makemkv, xbmc) that there are headers you can put in a MP4 that will tell the TV which type of stereoscopic is being used (top and bottom, side by side, interleave, etc). Does anyone have experience with which containers/codecs can have this information embedded and what apps I may need to get this done?

There was a link in their forums to a youtube MP4 that triggers a TV when played via a media device. Either a PS3, XBox, Popcorn Hour, HTPC, etc. After the MP4 H264 started playback the TV appropriately received the correct type of 3D in use. I'd really like to implement this in some fun I'm having with the 3d rigging system in AE.

Does anyone know how to embed this in the headers or metadata of the video? Thanks!

Passive 3D displays, anything other than AE needed to have some fun here?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:56:33 GMT

Hey all,

After looking around I see some basic stereo-graphic tutorials but I don't see too much out there on the passive of active side.

I read an extensive article on some of the basics (literally the only official thing I could find) but upon opening a new project, adding in a 3d layer, a camera, right-clicking on the camera and telling it to create a stereo 3d rig, AE CC 2014 flips out displaying this error until I had to end its task:

So, ok.. let me baby step back a bit here. Is AE "itself" enough to produce anything a passive 3D HDTV can see in an interleave or side by side mode or do I need more software?

Also what settings should I be using on my composition? Active glasses typically run at 60FPS, so what settings should I be using for passive (if it's even capable of producing something for passive)?

Thanks for tips!

Deleting every nth frame (again)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:05:03 GMT

Hey all,

I have a video where every single 5th frame is a duplicate. So I need frames 0,1,2,3 - 5,6,7,8 - 10,11,12,13 - etc...

I've seen this post but I myself am not familiar with expressions enough to write it just by what the person is suggesting.

I found a few suggestions such as:

f = timeToFrames();

n = Math.floor(f/5);

framesToTime(n+f);

Also this from a random YouTube video I can't find:

f = timeToFrames();

p = Math.floor(f/1);

framesToTime(p*1.5);

Neither work. The frames start jumping erratically. 2 frames at a time, then 150 frames, etc etc.

In general programming to iterate and skip every nth number I'd just do a modulos check and skip any 0 sum. Something like:

f = timeToFrames();

n = f % 5;

if (n == 0) { f++; }

framesToTime(f);

This also produces some really odd frame counts although it doesn't jump to the hundreds eratically. It just doesn't work.

How would I skip every 5th frame?

Thanks for tips!

[iOS] CS5.5 AIR3 - BitmapData (blitting) and Text - Some Text Missing?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:29:47 GMT

Hey all,

Are there any gottchas for text showing up in a sprite you draw to a bitmapdata that might make some text fail to show up?

I have a loop that's printing headlines and then text below those headlines. The headlines show up, the text blow it does not. Both uses the same (embedded) font. Bit confused on this.

One thing to note is the headlines have a dropshadow I'm applying. This must be internally converting the text to a bitmap of some sort. I applied the dropshadow to the text that I don't desire to have a dropshadow and it shows up. Is this sounding like a bug?

Thanks for any tips!

CS6 Publish AIR for iOS, conflicting path error (icons)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:39:29 GMT

Hey all,

Win 7 Pro 64bit, Flash CS6 latest update, AIR latest (3.8.0.1430)

In Flash CS5.5 I've never seen this error but in CS6 I get this error constantly, than some icons path conflicts with another in the same path. This is just an old project I never converted to Flash Builder (no issue like this) nor have seen the issue in CS5.5.

Here's the error on a dummy project I literally set up just to create a reproducable error. File->New AIR (3.8.0.1430) for iOS project, set the SWF/IPA/Icon paths in publish settings, include the folders for the icons (auto-gen'd by Flash), and the error happens every time:

I've researched it quite a bit and usually people change the paths of where icons are stored or just put the icons in the root path of the app to get rid of the error. Neither of these work for me.

For now I just continue to use the command line to compile these projects but it's becoming a real hassle.

Anyone find out the root cause of this?

LocationChangeEvent anomalies, not firing via JavaScript?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:41:07 GMT

Hey all,

Has anyone noticed LocationChangeEvent doesn't appear to fire when using JavaScript? The StageWebView.locationChanging documentation specifies it will be called:

A locationChanging event is only dispatched when the location change is initiated through HTML content or code running inside the StageWebView object,such as when a user clicks a link.

I'm changing the location via JavaScript and only if I've clicked an anchor (<a>) link will this actually fire off correctly. I'm assigning it simply to a button:

<input type="button" value="Click" onclick="location.href = 'http://www.example.com';"/>

The event never fires off.

I'm filling my StageWebView with custom content loaded via loadString() (which doesn't fire off that event). If someone clicks any link I've provided I want to bounce them out to a full browser. I'm trying to preventDefault() so the StageWebView does not load the content while running a navigateToURL() so it opens in Safari (this is an iPad app). Works great for anchors, just not in that quick JavaScript example.

Anyone else notice this behavior?

Code editor - Auto-indentation correction option?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:34:47 GMT

When pasting code I've noticed DW doesn't even attempt to fix the indentation. Maybe I've been using Visual Studio, FlashDevelop, Flash Builder, Aptana, etc and this is all handled very well if not perfectly because it's strictly code but even in their HTML editing capacities I've noticed them do a very good job of indentation auto-correcting.

I've been pasting a lot of snippits lately and I find I'm spending quite a long time fixing indentation. Is there an option I'm overlooking in code formatting, pasting, etc that does this?

An example would be opening some example code from a snippit file that doesn't match my current JavaScript indentation . So if I copy a few lines of code such as:

someBackboneMethod: function (data) {
     var view = new SomeViewClass(
     {
          name: data.name, 
          something: data.something, 
          etc: data.etc 
     });

     $('#somecontent').html(view.render().el);
},

After I paste that into DW where the rest of the surrounding lines are clearly indented, DW doesn't attempt to fix the indentation. It won't even fix the initial line if I don't copy and paste in exactly the same manner.

It's not the end of the world if this isn't available or this only really works in HTML, as HTML indents pretty well automatically. I'm just a bit used to the other studios handling pasting code rather automagically and am wondering if I overlooked this feature. HTML and JavaScript tend to nest so heavily it'd be really handy if this option exists.

Any workarounds to NetStream not reporting bytesLoaded on AIR 3.0+ for iOS?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:40:48 GMT

Hey all,

I gave in a while back and just used Darkredz StageWebView and VideoPlayer ANE to get around this. It's been quite a long time and I'd really love to know the underlying reason as to why such a basic and vital attribute isn't wired into the AIR SDK. But alas to this day, as the documentation clearly states:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/NetStream.htm l#bytesLoaded

Note: This property is not supported for H.264 video in AIR 3.0 for iOS.

This makes me a sad panda. Has anyone found a workaround beyond the above mentioned ANE?

USB Debugging Android OS 4.2.x or Above Failing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:04:43 GMT

Hey all,

I starting to get more and more devices that both don't come with a USB driver (relying on MTP) and fail to authorize themselves with Windows. Not all 4.2 devices do this however, I'm noticing Samsung is pretty special in this way.

I have the latest Android SDK, the default google USB driver as well. 'adb devices' continuously shows devices as 'unauthorized'. I've read people do simple things like unplug/replug, uncheck/recheck USB debugging, restart the device and all possible combinations of those things in any order. My older devices dutifully ask me upon connection or USB Debugging enablement if the PC I connected it to is allowed and once I click OK the device is authorized (like my 4.1.2 Samsung Galaxy S3). This screen NEVER comes up on newer devices, never offering a way to authorize the device.

Android devices that work

Samsung Galaxy S3 (4.1.2)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" (4.1.2)
ASUS Transformer 10.1" (4.0.3)
ASUS Transformer Infinity 10" (4.2.1)
Lenovo IdeaTab 7" (4.0)
ASUS MeMO SmartPad 10.1" (4.1)
Sony Xperia Tablet Z 10" (4.2.2)

Devices that refuse to authorize:

Samsung Galaxy S4 (4.3)
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (4.3)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0" (4.2.2)

The obvious trend here is, Samsung and anything over 4.2 doesn't seem to work (allow authorization). I can find nothing but Kies software with a "reinstall USB driver" option which I've installed and tried but these devices merely are visible in windows, allow file transfers with no issues, show up in 'adb devices' as 'unauthorized' and in Flash Builder 4.7 they show up as their serial numbers, 'online' and AIR is not installed, with no OS version.

Has anyone had any luck with a late Samsung device and USB debugging, or getting the devices to authorize with the OS? As much as I've narrowed it (which doesn't help) is OS 4.2 and up now ask for a RSA fingerprint for authorization from Windows whereas 4.1 and below do not. Somehow only the older Galaxy Tab and Sony are getting this. I guess Samsung is just having an issue (with Win7 Pro 64bit).

Any native developers know how to force a device to authorize?

Thanks!

AIR 3.8, ActionScript-only projects, which SDK?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:53:57 GMT

Hey all,

I haven't seen the box appear before on the AIR SDK download page that Flex users should download an alternate version. Does this also pertain to projects in Flash Builder (4.7 Premium) that are ActionScript for Mobile as well (which do not use Flex)? It seems like I should download the version that lets Flex work, otherwise are we going to have to continuously flip back and forth between the regular SDK and the Flex-friendly SDK depending on the project?

Profiler can't connect to AIR for Mobile?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:25:06 GMT

Hey all,

Anyone else experiencing an issue connecting the FB4.7 Premium profiler to a mobile app?

FB, AIR SDK, debugger plugins, debugger and release projectors and flash playerglobal all updated to the latest version.

In a brand new empty mobile project I just hit the profiler, make a standard config to export to AIR Simulator and set it to iPad as the device. It pops up a white box, waits 15 seconds and:

- Added full rules to Windows Firewall to allow the application (even down to specifying the port)

- Changed ports and reconfigured the firewall in profiler preferences

- Disabled Windows Firewall completely

- Checked for any FB or Adobe software updates overall, all up to date

- Closed and restarted FB

- Restarted computer overall

Nothing is getting this thing connected. FB4.6 Premium connects up perfectly. As soon as I launch profiler in FB4.6P I get the dialog to choose what to profile, check the boxes, it starts profiling perfectly fine.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Adobe: What frameworks are compatible with Native Extensions on iOS?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:19:13 GMT

Man it's really hard to diagnose what could possibly be going wrong compiling ANEs for iOS. I dev apps in Xcode that work perfect, zero leaks. I use any part of the majority of the frameworks I've tried (none visual) and they simply don't work outside a very rare few. Vibration, gyroscope, alert modals, etc.

Is there a list of compatibility between ANEs and classes on platforms that AIR supports? Whether it be Windows, iOS, Android, MacOSX, etc?

Is there some way to "know" that a framework should be supported? For example, all I remember reading is to steer clear of visual classes. Oddly the UIAlertView modal works on iOS (that's visual to me but *shrug*).

My current need is to use NSURLConnection and NSURLRequest. Both are in Foundation.h. Neither are visual. They're simply classes that make a connection to a host while sending and receiving responses. Yet any time I attempt to instantiate a NSURLRequest it's insta-crash. I comment it out and the ANE works fine. So far I find almost everything I do with ANEs to fail.

Clearly the framework classes I'm using aren't supported or I'm doing it miserably wrong.

A chart indicating support would be REALLY nice for each platform.

On another note, has anyone utilized NSURL* on iOS successfully in an ANE?

Storing cache data in app/Library/Caches, how do you access this folder?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:42:34 GMT

Hey all,

I'm trying to abide by the new rules to keep content that is not vital to the application yet very desirable to cache in 5.0.1. The original project was built using Flash IDE and FlashDevelop and stored files in the Documents folder. It was rejected from the app store for 2.23 for not putting those files in the app/Library/Caches folder.

I've checked to see if this folder auto-exists using a bunch of File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath() traces and I can't find this folders existence. I can see that /Library/Caches exists but I get errors trying to write to that so that can't be it.

For example, here's a bunch of traces using applicationDirectory and then applicationStorageDirectory and their outputs:

File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath('/Library/Caches');

File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath('./../../Library/Caches');

File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath('./../Library/Caches');

File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath('../Library/Caches');

File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath('Library/Caches');

File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath('./../Library/Caches');

----------------------------

File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath('/Library/Caches');

File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath('./../../Library/Caches');

File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath('./../Library/Caches');

File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath('./Library/Caches');

File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath('Library/Caches');

File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath('./../Library/Caches');

outputs:

cache 1 exists: /Library/Caches

cache 2 exists: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/myApp.app

cache 3 exists: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/myApp.app

cache 4 exists: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/myApp.app

cache 5 doesnt exist: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/myApp.app/Library/Caches

cache 6 exists: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/myApp.app

----------------------------

cache 1 exists: /Library/Caches

cache 2 exists: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/Library/Application Support/com.example.myApp/Local Store

cache 3 exists: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/Library/Application Support/com.example.myApp/Local Store

cache 4 doesnt exist: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/Library/Application Support/com.example.myApp/Local Store/Library/Caches

cache 5 doesnt exist: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/Library/Application Support/com.example.myApp/Local Store/Library/Caches

cache 6 exists: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/Library/Application Support/com.example.myApp/Local Store

I would have expected 'Library/Caches' to resolve.. You can see clearly 'cache 5 doesnt exist: /var/mobile/Applications/F6DD6D3B-E01A-44B5-849C-349170008DDD/myApp.app/Library/Caches' traced there.

I even made the folders Library\Caches included it as a folder in my publish options. I still don't see the directories existence. Now that's weird. I also include a 'data' folder and that exists if I trace for it.

Any tips on how I can find this "Library/Caches" path?

Catching/Suppressing Socket Error (#2044, #2031, ioError) failing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:35:39 GMT

Hey all,

I haven't tried to do much with the tcp Socket class on devices, nor AIR. I've noticed there's a big difference when you try to connect to LAN devices rather than servers over the net as there seems to be no way to specify a socket policy file that will stick. I've used them over HTTP and they work but locally it doesn't seem to matter what I load for a policy file, I get error #2044->#2031, which is an uncaught IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR.

I'm catching IOErrorEvent synchronously and async, e.g.:

// -- import all relevant classes -------------

// just attaching relevant listeners for example
var sock:Socket = new Socket();
sock.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errHandler);

// sync
try
{
     sock.connect('192.168.1.50',1234);
}
catch (e:IOErrorEvent)
{
     trace('Caught IOErrorEvent');
}
catch (e:IOError)
{
     trace("Caught IOError');
}

// this fires off, even though I get "uncaught IOErrorEvent" errors
function errHandler(e:IOErrorEvent):void
{
     trace("IOErrorEvent");
}

// -- end example -----------------------

So when the device doesn't respond on the port specified and timeout expires, errHandler DOES get called, but I also get a [Dismiss] [Continue] error dialog popping up (#2044) saying an uncaught IOErrorEvent (#2031) occured of type "ioError". The catch never fires, the real event handler does.

Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2031: Socket Error.

Uncaught? Very strange....

Anyone ever connect to local LAN devices and figure out how to suppress this error from popping up? I intend on using the Socket class to talk to IP devices on my local network via an iPad. No problems happen using the devices as long as the device exists but I need a way to fail gracefully connecting to the device that won't spawn uncaught errors (when clearly the error is caught).

AIR 3.5 (3.5.0.880), Flash Builder 4.6(32bit) and 4.7(64bit) premium, compiling to SWF version 18 (11.5) running locally in the simulator. I haven't seen if this halts the app yet. It shouldn't be happening in the debugger though.

Edit:

Reproducable example (Start new AS Mobile project):

http://pastebin.com/MqJwuDit

I get this in the console (one you can see is from the dialog that pops):

[SWF] TestSocketFail.swf - 2,191 bytes after decompression
_networkSerachErrorHandler() - [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2031: Socket Error. URL: 192.168.1.99" errorID=2031] -
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2031: Socket Error.
          at TestSocketFail/_onActive()[C:\Users\      \Desktop\Lab\TestSocketFail\src\TestSocketFail.as:20]
          at runtime::ContentPlayer/internalCompleteInitialWindowSetup()
          at runtime::SimulatedContentPlayer/completeSimulatedInitialWindowSetup()
          at runtime::SimulatedMobileDeviceContentPlayer/doCompleteInitialWindowSetup()
          at runtime::ContentPlayer/completeInitialWindowSetup()
          at runtime::AppRunner/onComplete()
          at runtime::ContentPlayer/loadInitialContent()
          at runtime::ContentPlayer/playRawContent()
          at runtime::ContentPlayer/playContent()
          at runtime::AppRunner/run()
          at ADLAppEntry/run()
          at global/runtime::ADLEntry()
[Unload SWF] TestSocketFail.swf

The error is clearly caught and traced (bolded above), but right below it spawns a dialog that states it wasn't caught. This shouldn't happen. I didn't specify a socket policy but shouldn't need to for this. If anyone else can reproduce please let me know so I can open a bug report.

Edit:

After updating to the latest FP/AIR (3.5.0.880 to current 3.5.0.1060) Flash Pro no longer gives me this error. However FB 4.6 and 4.7 both still do.

Message was edited by: sinious

iOS - Can you manually adjust badge on app icon?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:56:33 GMT

My app is just a brochure. Users can download compatible files to view (DOC, PPT, PDF, XLS, MP4, etc). If a newer version of a previously downloaded file is available I'd just like to update the badge icon on the app to alert the user their downloaded resources have updates.

So far all I see as a way to update a badge icon (outside previous ANEs that are said to be malfunctioning) is the new AIR 3.4 push notification updates. I see you can register to receive PUSH and if RemoteNotifier receives a notification event of type RemoteNotificationEvent.TOKEN it can adjust the badge?

I only wish to set the app icons badge number manually from inside the app, after I determine if there's any resources that need updating. I don't need push services. Is there an easy means that I'm simply not seeing to adjust the badge, such as somehow faking a RemoteNotificationEvent.TOKEN event or any classes I'm not seeing inside flash.notifications.*?

Thanks for any tips!

What's your preferred iOS Push provider? Any self built?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:39:47 GMT

Hey all,

Do you have a home grown push service or do you use an existing service like UrbanAirship?

I haven't touched Push yet but I'm going to start playing with it. I'm wondering how difficult the 3rd party server is to develop. In reading about the push it seems I need to keep a database of devices registered for a push. I then need to send my push to the APNS. What I'm wondering is if I really need to send a request for each device or if wildcards or app ids can be used to "globally" send a single push to all devices with the app.

I see AIR3.5 came out today and has a new event specifically for push (reading this article).

If you've created your own push service to work with APNS, how difficult was it to set up? Any common pitfalls? One I'd see, because I don't know what information my device will transmit on a token request, is how to know when the same device just has a different token. I'd want to purge any invalid tokens out so hopefully something like a unique ID is sent with that request.

Thanks for any tips and happy updating to 3.5!

StageVideo on device = permanent performance loss.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:52:50 GMT

I see from some searching around if StageVideo is ever invoked it cannot be disposed and steals resources from Stage3D. It also causes other display artifacts. Has anyone found a way to dispose of StageVideo yet?

I've opened a bug here with a quick and dirty example Flash Builder project that plays a video using StageVideo, then attempts to use Starling (and FeathersUI) to display a RSS feed. Starling is used on the left in the Feathers UI List control. StageWebView is used on the right to display the description of the RSS item just to show it's functioning.

There is a blue button on the bottom right that fades an image above the List, where you would expect it to simulate the list fading out (to gray). However after running StageVideo the list merely blinks on and off. This only ever happens if StageVideo is used. If the lines invoking StageVideo are commented out and the Blog is loaded without it, the fade works perfectly fine. This illustrates a display pipeline issue.

Bug report:

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3360651

Starling users complaining about StageVideo interfering and being undisposable, causing performance loss:

http://forum.starling-framework.org/tags/stagevideo

Starling - Starting multiple times, workflow?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:34:12 GMT

Hey all,

Has anyone used Starling for small portions of a larger application (say, to use the FeathersUI controls) and had the task of starting and stopping a Starling instance? I'm curious on your workflow of handling the Stage3D context. I find Starling is unable to reinit itself even with the additions of handling a lost context. Upon instantiations past the initial, Starling seems to fail to find a context and simply shows as black.

How do you handle starting, stopping and then starting the Starling engine properly? This post suggests this is a work in progress. When implementing the authors suggested temporary workaround I find the engine becomes unusable.

fl.text.TLFTextField not available in AS for Mobile project?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:00:53 GMT

Hey all,

Any idea why Flash Builder 4.6 using flex 4.6.0 on an ActionScript for Mobile project wouldn't be able to see fl.text.TLFTextField? Code completion won't complete the import line and can't find it. I see in the base sdk that textLayout.swc is included. I even tried adding in a FP11.4 playerglobal.swc. What's the deal with FB not finding TLFTextField?

Standard panel resizeing using borders

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:04:37 GMT

Hey all,

Don't take "Panel" too literally. I'm pretty new to flex. Hopefully this is something simple I've overlooked.

I'd like to make a left and right side to my application. A Tree on the left and various dynamic things on the right. I'd like to allow the user to resize the separation between the left and right side in a standard way.

Just about every application us users use allow you to grab a border or area between 2 separated panels and resize them. One panel gets bigger while the other shrinks. This is trivial in c#.NET as a border can be requested and all the resizing is done for you. It's literally drag and drop. I'm trying to find this in Flex if it exists.

Is there a container that supports auto-resizing of areas or even has a way of implementing it in a normalized way? BorderContainer contains no properties I can see to allow resizing, nor the other containers. Should I expect to literally make a HRule or VRule and hand code them to resize panels when clicked (if that's even possible)?

I'm just looking for the easiest way to contain panels with inner resizability.

AIR for iOS ANEs, I'd like to use UIWebView..

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:18:28 GMT

Hi all,

Has anyone figured out if they can utilize the UIWebView via an ANE? I don't simply want to display things (like StageWebView), I want to use the lower level functions.

What I ultimately would like to do is send the UIWebView an URL to submit a form via "POST" to which will in turn give me back cookies. The same as if you visit a login form, fill in username/password and hit submit. After that a few cookies are assigned to me. I need to trap and use these cookies to make more requests.

My desire is to use UIWebView to download files. Currently I've already done it easily (natively) with a cookie collection. I can submit the post, capture the cookies and then send a direct url request (supplying those vital cookies). After that the server sends me a file.

This is a basic login setup. You must log in first. The system sets cookies (a login cookie and a session id). I supply those cookies to any further requests for "files" (PDFs, XLS, DOC, MP3, etc) and it allows me to directly download these files.

Has anyone figured out if ANE supports using the UIWebView in such a way?

I know the general rule is anything visual is off limits to ANE. I hope UIWebView can be used "non-visually" so I can trap those cookies to be able to download files. The purpose of the app is to download files once logged in.

Thanks for any tips in this

AIR for iOS.. best strategy to play 100MB+ MP4 videos?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:53:45 GMT

Hey all,

Is anyone able to play a 100MB+ MP4 on iPad1? Whether StageVideo, StageWebView, etc? StageVideo starts to bog to death at about half way (netStatus reports buffer empties and it never regains). Trying to URLLoader download crashes the app (trying to play it local). StageWebView crashes outright. Standard NC/NS/Viideo classes fail to even start playing.

100MB just too tall of an order for iPad1?

Even loading the mp4 directly in safari on 50mbit inet/wifi N can't keep up. iPad2/3 works perfectly.

I used Madagascar 3 trailer recompressed to 1024x576 @ 23.976 MainConcept MP4 to test.

Does your iPad1 load and play this smoothly in safari?

http://www.filehorde.com/o/1.mp4

Thanks for tips.

Note: What isn't working is buffer events. If I check buffer length its always 0. I do get an empty event but unlike a PC where I can throw up a buffering message and pause playback, iOS just goes unresponsive. I can't recover.

FB 4.6.0 & AIR 3.3, can't generate IPAs anymore.. sigh

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:39:55 GMT

I'm just stuck at an endless progress bar regardless if I export for debug (fast or standard packaging) or do a release build. Debug gets to 57% instantly as always, then does nothing. It doesn't crash, it just doesn't move. Release build doesn't even get to 1%.

Anyone else getting this behavior on Flash Builder and AIR 3.3/FP 11.3?

edit:

At first I thought I did something wrong in the overlay as I added in FP11.3 (in Adobe Flash Builder 4.6\player\win\11.3\FlashPlayerDebugger.exe), and also edited air-config.xml and airmobile-config.xml (in Adobe Flash Builder 4.6\sdks\4.6.0\frameworks) to point to 11.3 instead of 11.2 as well as version 16. I added the playerglobal.swc for 11.3 as well (in Adobe Flash Builder 4.6\sdks\4.6.0\frameworks\libs\player\11.3).

I then just took an older AIR 3.2 release and overlayed FB back to 3.2. I got errors about requiring SWF version 16 and AIR 3.2 namespace doesn't support it. So I changed it back to point to 11.2. Having AIR 3.2 and FP 11.2 back in place, I can export perfectly fine.

I'm hoping someone else is seeing this.

re-edit:

Opened a bug report for it if anyone else experiences it.

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3214559

If anyone else is able to export via FB 4.6.0 and AIR3.3 I'd like to know!

Sudden error I can't find and StageWebView (AIR for iOS)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:28:33 GMT

Hey all,

In my app I allow a user to download files from a list and then typically use StageWebViews to display them (videos mostly). Recently my app started to misbehave.

I'm using Flash Builder 4.6 with AIR 3.2 on Win7 Pro 64.

I test on-device. I choose fast export (quick packaging) and debug right from Flash Builder so I can see traces/errors/etc from the iPad.

After downloading a ~40MB MP4, I save it to the applicationStorageDirectory (and mark it 'do not back up'). I then wait 3 seconds just to be sure the write has a few seconds to complete. Then I black out the screen with a black sprite, stick a close button on the screen and load the video into a new StageWebView.

The problem is the first time these larger 40MB videos are saved and attempted, TONS of code isn't firing off or affecting the display. The video plays just fine, centered on the screen. However all the code to remove tons of things from memory during video playback which has tons of trace statements sprinkled in is simply not affecting the iPads display. This ONLY happens on iPad1 (OS 5.1). iPad2 and iPad3 work just fine.

I presumed I was being too aggressive with the iPad1 and added more and more time between downloading, saving and setting the bit on the file so the iPad1 wasn't innundated with doing to much at once. I can add 25 minutes worth of setTimeout between playing this video for the first time and it will fail every time though. So it's not being innundated.

If the video is already downloaded and a user selects it, it works perfectly fine. All views/classes are disposing properly to free up as much ram as possible for the video playback.

Now, I'm getting this error randomly:

Error #2044: Unhandled ErrorEvent:. text=Plug-in handled load

I can't find where this is coming from. Has anyone seen this before? I don't know if it has anything to do with what I'm seeing fail here. I doubt it because I get it a very short time (few seconds) after the video starts playing back. I only get this video the first time a file is downloaded and played but then never again.

I have an UncaughtErrorEvent that isn't even catching this. Everything to do with the class that displays the video has try {} catch() {} blocks over every line of code. So doesn't the small file downloader class. Nothing is throwing an ErrorEvent.

Is there any easy way to find where this error is being generated? Something I might not know about the Flash Builder Debugger? Other errors show up and tell me where they occured, but this brand new error does not cause the app to fail and the debugger doesn't even flinch at it.

On the first part, has anyone recently seen their apps exhibit something like this? I have a list of files that I destroy before I show the video and it continues to exist even though I literally trace() all over the code that should destroy it and I see the traces. Everything is nulled. Objects no longer exist. The background isn't visible that I'm tracing as I build and it exists on the display list. It's very odd.

It'd just like suddenly StageWebView has an issue loading a freshly downloaded and saved file. It nukes the display list, nothing I do to it matters. But if the file already exists it all works fine.

AIR for iOS, Getting HTML5 Video to Autoplay in a StageWebView?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:31:06 GMT

Hi all,

The video performance I get from the built in FLV video is pretty poor. I'm considering using a StageWebView to display a HTML5 page with a standard <video> in it.

The video shows up and (if I enable controls) can be played and it looks great (much better than FLV). The only issue is I cannot find a way to have the video autoplay once the StageWebView is loaded.

I've set the <video .... autoplay> parameter. I've also tried using JavaScript to send a video.play() (after the window load event is complete and the DOM is ready).

Has anyone figured this out?

I can't wait for AIR3.0 so we can just use StageVideo.. But for now I'm using AIR2.7 via Flash CS5.5 publishing for an iPad2 via AIR for iOS.

Thanks for any tips!

What are you thinking Adobe? This forum is a wreck.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:40:23 GMT

You produce tools to help novices make great websites, yet you absolutely unequivocally destroyed your sites usability.

A few examples?

Getting into an actual forum using the whole 'discussions concept' which deviates from the vast majority of forums was never a good idea. Now I can't even find my own way into certain forums unless I already have a post there and can click into it and back out. But, I can't always back out to the discussions.

Is this a joke? The text collides? Navigation hindering?

Can you tell me why the text "Discussions" isn't clickable? It was previously. Moreover can you tell me what person is responsible for allowing the text to run into other text? This is seriously novice. I realize I can hit Mobile Development but then I'm required to click the tiny blue Next > link at the bottom to actually get to the discussions? Why can't I just click Discussions as before to return?

Next, what were you thinking with space with this abomination of text size and utter terrible planning. Note this is at 100% text size, not zoomed.

Can you explain why you're using a font so horrifically large while wasting most of the space you could have used IF you wanted to use this huge text by condensing the useless grid on the right?

Your footer doesn't even try to stay within the area it should. If you're a designer, would you ever put that drab blue on top of a dark gray and call it accessible?

I can give about another hundred or more examples of what are you thinking but I'd love to hear it from Adobe about uh, who designed your site? Please try to use your own products. They are very good. This forum is obfuscated and barely usable. Seriously question the designers and developers who made it. The old forum was bad enough with, again, the discussions format. This? This... I have no words..

CS5.5 Mobile Publish (iOS) - Displaying Office Documents Possible?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:29:09 GMT

Hey all,

I would like to make a brochare-ware type mobile app. Many markets do it these days, such as the car market, to show off their product.

I would like to show the users some office-esque documents without leaving the application. The document types would be word (.doc/.docx), powerpoint (.ppt/.pptx), Portable Document Format (.pdf), Excel (.xls, xlsx), images (.png, .jpg, etc), video and audio (in a flash-friendly f4v/flv/etc format).

What would be a bit annoying is if the user clicks a PDF link and is taken out of the app to load the PDF in a browser instance or ibooks or such. Same for the rest of the formats.

What should I expect as the behavior of an application that would like to show these formats?

In a native app (I am a native developer as well) I can just load these in a UIWebView and they'll display (for reading purposes only) just fine. I know iOS itself has no issue with any of those formats (outside flash needing to play f4v/flv content).

The location of these documents will be online. Each asset will be located on a webserver and that's how I plan to have the user fetch any of them.

Has anyone done anything like this before?

I do see a StageWebView class for AIR that states: "On devices in the mobile and extended mobile profiles, the StageWebView class uses the system web control provided by the device operating system."

Does this mean on iOS it will use a UIWebView and I can expect this will load all these documents as if it's a native app?

Forums no longer a highly visible link in the "Learning" section?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:46:03 GMT

The majority of help happens in the forums. Users helping users is a valuable asset to Adobe. This is not clearly as good as purchasing a support request (for Adobe or the user) but removing the forum link and placing it in the footer will definitely cut down on forum traffic making it much less valuable.

I would like to see the link restored so users can find the community of people available to help and discuss Adobe products.

Proper Flash Builder 4.6 project setup to use AIR3.2 and Stage3D?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:40:28 GMT

I would love to use Flare3D on a mobile app. Im struggling to get FB to get set up for this.

I have overlayed AIR3.2 and added a flash player 11.2 debugger exe in the players folder as well as playerglobal.swcs for 11.2RC.

When I go to make a new actionscript for mobile project the air namespace is already properly 3.2 from the overlay. I set wmode to direct and the same even again in the actionscript [SWF(wmode="direct")].

When I make a mobile config and test on desktop from an emulated android the debug reports my version properly as 11,2 so I know the FlashPlayerDebugger.exe is working.

I make sure my compiler settings target -swf-version 15.

Yet I always have an 'unknown internal problem' using this type of project. If I do a standard MXML mobile project it works just fine.

I can export to a flash web app using stage3d and it works great. I have the 11.2RC debuggers installed in my browsers. But as soon as I try the same as-only for mobile project it wont work with that useless error.

I am new to flash builder, AIR, Stage3D and Flare3D so Im a bit of a fish out of water.

Can I use stage3d from air3.2 in mobile dev from Flash Builder 4.6? Thanks for any tips!

Correct FB project settings for AIR3.2 mobile dev using stage3d?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:12:31 GMT

I would love to use Flare3D on a mobile app. Im struggling to get FB to get set up for this.

I have overlayed AIR3.2 and added a flash player 11.2 debugger exe in the players folder as well as playerglobal.swcs for 11.2RC.

When I make a mobile config and test on desktop from an emulated android the debug reports my version properly as 11,2 so I know the FlashPlayerDebugger.exe is working.

I make sure my compiler settings target -swf-version 15.

Yet I always have an 'unknown internal problem' using this type of project. If I do a standard MXML mobile project it works just fine.

I am new to flash builder, AIR, Stage3D and Flare3D so Im a bit of a fish out of water.

Can I use stage3d from air3.2 in mobile dev from Flash Builder 4.6? Thanks for any tips!

Which framework for Stage3D appears to be best for mobile so far? (iOS and Android)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:09:09 GMT

Has anyone done testing with the various 3d frameworks on mobile devices? I know starling runs pretty well. I've tried Away3D, Flare3D and Alternativa3D so far and I find the beginner tutorials to be very approachable, although all the engines are scrambling to get Stage3D support in now. Away3D Beta 4 has almost no tutorials online. Flare3D has some good tutorials. Alternativa3D looks great as well as good samples and documentation.

What I'm struggling with is finding a complete solution. I have 3dsmax 2009 which is too old for the plugins (like Flare3D) and downloading the 2012 trial refuses to install a 32bit version in my 64bit OS, so I can't even use their exporter. Alternativa3D also has max plugins but don't work very well for me. Even exporting basic OBJ files has proved to have significant limitations, like no UVWMap useful info being imported (such as tiling materials).

So I'm wondering overall what a good mobile strategy is. Which framework looks most promising with Stage3D and what 3d apps I should expect to need with it.

Thanks for any info!

edit:

Just a note regarding 3ds max 2012, you can actually install the 32bit version even though it no longer asks you. After decompression of the installer, run the Setup32.exe and it will install the 32bit version of max. The Flare3D plugin works now

STILL getting green screened when viewing video.. Fix?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:44:40 GMT

Hey all,

I've had this issue for probably 6+ months. I'm fairly sure a lot of people are familiar with this issue. If I view a flash player that attempts to play video, it shows nothing but a green screen. Regular flash content works fine, only video ends up green screening me (like anything on youtube).

Yes, disabling hardware acceleration makes it work. I am very familiar with that fix. The video is fully viewable at that point, but when I hit a complex website my system bogs down to a crawl without acceleration otherwise. It makes flipping between acceleration and no acceleration a huge hassle.

This is a new OS install. I've uninstalled/reinstalled flash player, no difference.

OS: Win 7 Pro 64bit (all latest updates)

Flash Player: v11.1.102.55 (current)

Video: ATI Radeon 4870 X2 running latest driver (v11.12)

Browser: All browsers

I can't figure out where the problem lies, between the probably onboard hardware h264 decoding on the vid card or flash player.

Any idea why this is happening on an otherwise (old but) quality video card?

Thanks for tips

Can you test compiled IPAs using Xcode Instruments?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:04:30 GMT

I'd like to look for leaks and other various things that the instruments supports over flash builder profiling. Is it possible to test a compiled IPA from flash builder using Xcodes instruments? If so, how do you set the target properly?

I'd like to do it on the device itself but if only the simulator is possible, either is fine. I just can't figure out how to specify the IPA as the target.

I did rename it to a .zip and uncompress the Payload folder and point to that app in instruments and it just tells it it fails to load the app.

Thanks for any tips!

Is is possible to profile an app on a device via FB4.6?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:21:29 GMT

Hopefully this is an easy enough question..

In Flash Builder 4.6 Premium, is it possible to compile an app and profile it on the device itself similarly to how instruments can do that in xcode?

There are some things (like the StageWebView, StageVideo, etc) which do not work correctly in the emulator so it's desirable to profile from FB on device (on Windows).

Thanks for any tips!

Successfully using a Native Extension with Flash CS5.5 Pro, having issues

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:46:41 GMT

Hey all,

I'm trying to use a native extension due to an app rejection about the new storage guidelines. I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to use a native extension from Flash CS5.5 and the adt command line utility (I've never used before).

Apples storage guidelines in 5.0.1 require files saved to Documents (and other places) to be marked with the icloud "do not back up" bit. I'm trying to use Adobe's IOS 5.0.1 data storage native extension to do that as I have file sharing enabled and my app downloads files I want the user to be able to copy to their desktop.

From the bits and fragments I'm reading all over, getting it to compile means using the command line adt tool (I've never used it before) because Flash Pro CS5.5 doesn't support native extensions. Also, this native extension requires a v14 SWF published (11.1) and CS5.5 only goes up to 10.2 (or higher if you install the players).

I edited the AiriPhone.xml file and pointed it to an AIR 3.1 airglobal.swc and I have AIR 3.1 overlayed in flash. I can't test AIR for iOS anymore after that change but I can get it to compile a SWF. The adt command line adt utility stopped complaining that my SWF version was 13 when it needed 14, so I assume this worked?

I am trying to compile a debug version so I can see trace statements to see if the native extension reports success on changing the bit. Here is my command line cobbled together from scraps of info on adobe.com and the -help data:

adt -package -target ipa-debug -connect 192.168.1.80 -provisioning-profile myApp.mobileprovision -storetype pkcs12 -keystore myApp.p12 myApp.ipa myApp-app.xml myApp.swf dat AppIconsForPublish Default-Landscape.png Default-LandscapeRight.png -extdir extensionDir

Before this iCloud change this app published directly from Flash Pro CS5.5 without any issues. I am only running into issues getting this app to work with this native extension and/or published correctly.

I am including the folders "dat" and "AppIconsForPublish" as well as splash screens (this app is landscape-only) as well as that extension in the folder extensionDir.

After putting in my password my app compiles into an IPA which I can drop into iTunes. It has the same general size as the IPA generated from Flash Pro. The icon is correct, etc.

When I sync this file, the progress bar goes across, I see it loading on my iPad and then once it goes to install I get a popup saying "iTunes Sync: 'myApp' failed to install."

Is there anything obvious wrong with my adt line? Has anyone else used this native extension? Ideas on what I can do to fix this?

No, unfortunately I did not build this with Flash Builder. I am an avid user of it now and this would be a moot point as it uses ANEs and changes SWF versions trivially. I have to get this to compile using Flash Pro CS5.5 though.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

edit:

Just FWIW, after I updated the .xml to use the latest AIR and such (so the version is 14) I removed the extension, exported purely from Flash Pro CS5.5 and the app works fine. As soon as I enable the <extension> in the XML I can no longer install the app. This just appears to be a noob adt publish issue.

Properly updating Flash CS5.5 to use the lastest Flash Player/Debugger

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:14:38 GMT

Hey all,

I'm just about to uninstall and reinstall at this point but I'm getting my install all screwed up trying to update Flash Pro CS5.5 to use Flash Player 11. I had it fine using the MXP provided in this adobe blog. Though that's 11.0 not 11.1. It did work however.

I downloaded the latest Flash Player / Debugger .exe and the latest SWC for 11.1 and now Stage3D is no longer being seen. Clearly I screwed something up. I uninstalled and reinstalled the MXP after deleting the FP11 XML and FP11 directory but it's not working anymore.

Is there a clear cut simple way to explain how to overlay the latest Flash Player for FPCS5.5?

I used the AIR overlay instructions for 2.6 - 3.1 and it worked every time. Now I just need Flash Player overlay instructions.

I'm very interested to start trying to Starling framework with Stage3D. I select FP11 to export and it tells me it can't find Stage3D. D'oh!

Thanks for tips!

Any way to launch documents in alternate applications (e.g. PDF in iBooks, etc)?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:56:14 GMT

Any native extensions or other means of doing this sort of thing out there yet? I did see a post about it but the author was happy with just opening the PDF in a StageWebView. I'd really like to be able to push a document in my application to another application.

I'm downloading PDFs (using URLLoader) and am saving them into my applications Documents folder so they can be accessed in itunes. Instead of having to view the PDF in a StageWebView I'd love it if I could let iBooks read it to tap into other features like sharing the document via email, etc etc.

I haven't found any native extensions to do this yet. Any progress on this?

First app store submission.. What is the good, the bad and the ugly?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:21:30 GMT

Hey all,

I'm trying to prepare as best I can before submitting an app made via AIR to iOS. I'd love to know what to watch out for. The traps that many of you may have fell in that caused multiple denials, etc.

My app is free and iPad landscape only. It does support upside down or right side up landscape switching. It is just intended to give information about a product. Brochureware if you will. The apps only function is to tell you about the product while allowing you to download a baked in set of specific resources. The resources are all PDF, DOCX, PPTX, H264 MP4s, etc telling you about various parts of the product. The are not pre-packaged, I'm using the URLLoader class to download the files, the AIR FileStream class to write them to the Documents folder while enabling the feature to allow the user to transfer the downloaded files via iTunes.

I'm concerned with what Apple will demand in the way of performance. I did my first attempt at blitting (not knowing what it was before this project) to make a 360 panorama experience. The user just drags their finger to the side to pan across a moderate size panorama of a factory. Various areas of the panorama can be touched to get more information and access a faux splitview containing files the user can download (mentioned above). Very basic.

Unfortunately on the iPad1 the CPU blitting is what I'd consider pretty so-so. Perhaps about 12-15fps. On iPad2 it's pretty silky smooth. Blitting is a CPU intensive operation so it's no shocker dual A5 processors outperform the A4 in the iPad1. In version 2 of the brochure I will try to use something like the Starling engine to use Stage3d in for 2d to speed up the blitting by using the GPU. For now, I'm wondering if slightly boggy performance on an iPad1 will cause Apple to fail the app.

I have updated my XML to the latest requirements but it only supports English so I only included that as a possible language. Hopefully that is not a problem.

What hurdles have caused you all to get an app denied?

I make use of UIWebView (StageWebView) to display documents but I still sometimes see "(Beta)" on that. Will this cause me to stumble or break Adobe EULA not to use beta parts of their libraries?

Thanks for any tips!

Any good place to get native extensions? (looking for an ok/cancel modal dialog myself)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:35:47 GMT

Hi all,

I imagined someone would have made an extension that just pops up a native dialog and return the answer but I'm finding no real centralized place for extensions.

I see the examples on the adobe site such as the NetworkInfo and Gyroscope and I may have to turn to attempting to wrap my head around creating one. Before I do that, does anyone know if there already is a native extension to pop up a simple dialog?

I need to just adjust the title, have the two "Ok" and "Cancel" button setup and get the response from the user. Dimming the screen (modal) so it requires an answer would be great.

Any hidden treasure troves of premade extensions?

AIR for iOS 3.1 - App name no longer working?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:08:46 GMT

I have named my app "Someapp 123" and mysteriously the app continuously drops the "123" portion of the name. It used to appear just fine.

Yesterday I noticed AIR3.1 was released and I overlayed that. Has anyone else overlayed AIR3.1? Notice your app name not completely working?

FWIW it is an iPad-only app. The provision clearly states the name of the app is "Someapp 123". In AIR for IOS settings I have the "App Name" parameter set properly as well.

Potential Bug: 9-slice scaling on iPad (1/2) scaling incorrectly

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:53:27 GMT

Hey all,

I have a simple rounded rectangle width a stroke. You can do it in the IDE. Specify when you make it a symbol that you want it to be a 9-slice clip. Adjust the guides so they're aligned to the corners as usual. Now change the scale or size (height/width). You would expect the stroke around the 9-slice object to stay the same size (preserving rounded corners, which is the point of 9-slice). On OS5.0 (and 4.0 methinks) the scale of the stroke is growing with the size of the scale.

I'm pretty sure this is a bug. I'm not sure why anyone would want the stroke to also be scaled up or down. I have only tested this on ipad1/2 OS4/5. Can anyone else confirm? Then I'll submit it as a bug.

StageVideo and FP10.2, StageVideoAvailabilityEvent never fires?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:44:03 GMT

I can just create a new project, target Flash Player 10.2 and paste this into frame code:

import flash.media.StageVideo;

import flash.media.StageVideoAvailability;

import flash.events.StageVideoAvailabilityEvent;

import flash.events.StageVideoEvent;

stage.addEventListener(StageVideoAvailabilityEvent.STAGE_VIDEO_AVAILABILITY, _checkAvailability);

function _checkAvailability(e:StageVideoAvailabilityEvent):void

{

trace('Available: ' + e.availability);

}

The event never fires off. I look in the reference for StageVideo and I see it's available in Flash Player 10.2. What's up with this?

edit:

If I target AIR for iOS, this event does fire (I have AIR3.0 overlayed).

[AIR to iOS] Reading 'included' video file with NetStream, possible?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:01:57 GMT

Hey all,

During publishing of the app you have a chance to include extra files. I'd like to include a f4v flash video that I'd like to play via the Video class. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to get these two connected.

I can get a full reference to the file ala the usual and use .url or .nativePath:

var videoFile:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("some.f4v");

When I try to pass that into a NetStream such as:

var myVideo:Video = new Video();

addChild(myVideo);

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();

nc.connect(null);

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

myVideo.attachNetStream(ns);

ns.play(videoFile.url);

This never works for me. Nor using:

ns.play(videoFile.nativePath);

Anyone ever get a class like Loader or NetStream, etc to load included files in AIR for iOS or Android projects? See anything wrong here? Thanks for tips!

Is it possible to submit iOS apps to the store that use the 3.0RC if they work?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:29:13 GMT

What are the rules on using the 3.0RC SDK with the Apple Store?

I'm mostly interested in the StageVideo class as fullscreen video using the built in video class is pretty abyssmal. I can toss up a StageWebView and any <video> played is fully accelerated and looks great. But you can't communicate effectively with StageWebView (sans StageWebViewBridge, nor have a video autoplay), so that's not a fix.

If I compile my app and it works great will Apple even be able to tell being they literally natively compile AIR directly into the IPA? I'm not sure if they could find a signature of which AIR was used to compile with.

StageWebView does not display on iPad

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:59:34 GMT

Hey all,

I'm using a simple document. It has nothing in the library and the SWF is pointed to the class "Main" (Main.as is in the same folder). All Main.as has in it is this super complex code:

package
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.geom.Rectangle;
    import flash.media.StageWebView;

    public class Main extends MovieClip
    {
        private var swv:StageWebView = new StageWebView();

        public function Main()
        {
            swv.stage = stage;
            swv.viewPort = new Rectangle(0, 0, 1024, 768);
            swv.loadURL('http://www.google.com');
        }
    }
}

Nothing shows up. I run it in flash (ctrl+enter test movie) and I see google load. On the ipad2 I see absolutely nothing. Any ideas why I don't see the StageWebView?

How do you include extra files with an AIR for iOS Publish?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:46:02 GMT

I've seen people mention they can include .html, .js, etc files with their iOS for AIR publish when making an iOS application from flash.

What I haven't seen is how these people include extra files (html, css, images, videos, etc) to be packaged into the IPA during publish.

How is this accomplished?

Publishing AIR for iOS, entitlement error upon installing ad-hoc?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:05:50 GMT

Hey all,

I initially got a signer error trying to install an .ipa on a test device and remembered to edit the provision to include the device. I grabbed my new mobileprovision and that error went away.

Now every time I try to export anything (literally a 1024x768 white-only document with "Hello World" on it) I get an entitlement error trying to sync the app to the ipad.

I renamed the ipa to a zip, went into the contents of the .app and verified the UID exists in the mobileprovision. What else should I be concerned with regarding entitlements?

Thanks for tips!

Mobile technique for sliding a large image with your finger?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:50:09 GMT

Hey all,

I'm using the Phonegap integration in DWCS5.5 and I'm looking for a technique to allow a person to pan an image from left to right. This image will be considerably large. It will take up most of the screen vertically and horizontally it will be several thousand pixels. Essentially I'd like to make a panorama and let the user touch it and drag it left/right to see around the panorama image.

I can do this with basic javascript on Android. It works just fine because the touchmove event fires off repeatedly letting me constantly update where the image is as I track the cursor (finger). On iOS the event only fires off AFTER the user pulls their finger away.

Has anyone done this on iOS and has an approach to allowing a user to drag something?

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