Since Flex 4.5, you have had the abil­ity to develop and export your projects as Android, iOS and Play­Book mobile appli­ca­tions that behave as native ones.
You can also export your Flex mobile project as AIR desk­top apps. Just open Flash builder, open your project and choose Project >  Export release build. You can then export a […]

Leonardo França writes; Zend AMF is an imple­men­ta­tion done in PHP to work with the com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­col binary AMF (Action Mes­sage For­mat) and is part of Zend­Frame­work. I had to imple­ment a sys­tem to upload files that were a lit­tle dif­fer­ent than what is typ­i­cally used in Flash, with this fea­ture had to be integrated […]

Shine (formely 8hz-MP3) is a sim­ple light­weight C-based MP3 encoder made by LAME devel­oper Gabriel Bou­vi­gne.
Descrip­tion of Shine on his web­site:
The goal of this encoder was not qual­ity, but sim­plic­ity. I tryed to sim­plify the encod­ing process as much as pos­si­ble. So Shine is then a good start­ing point when a pro­gram­mer needs a very […]

Helper class to write WAV for­mated audio files. The class expects audio input data in a byte array with sam­ples rep­re­sented as floats.
The default com­pressed code is set to PCM. The class resam­ples and for­mats the audio sam­ples accord­ing to the class prop­er­ties. The resam­pling geared for per­for­mance and not […]

Here is a very good multi-part tuto­r­ial on the ins and outs of mobile client / server devel­op­ment, that adds some quite use­ful func­tion­al­ity on Android, Apple IOS and Black­berry mobile devices.
In this Test Drive, you are going to cre­ate a Flex mobile appli­ca­tion that retrieves, dis­plays, and mod­i­fies data­base records (see Figure […]

Flash Builder 4.5 has a built-in data pag­ing fea­ture that gen­er­ates Action­Script code to retrieve data from the data­base incre­men­tally on demand. For exam­ple, sup­pose your data­base has thou­sands of records and you want to fetch only 20 rows at a time and dis­play them in a data grid. When you […]