I am reading documents which related to air, mobile ... author recommend software Adobe Device Central, I try researching available products of Abobe (https://creative.adobe.com/products) but I can't see it, it's necessary? If Adobe dropped it, is there any alternative?
Adobe Device Central has been discontinued: http://www.adobe.com/products/devicecentral.html
If you want to develop for mobile devices using Adobe Air then you have to take Adobe Flash. The HTML/JavaScript version is not available for mobile development. Instead you have to use Phonegap as Framework.
Related
I would like to confirm if we can play DRM content with Adobe Access on Samsung Smart TV (2013- SDK 4.5).
So far, I have played back the DRM content successfully on Desktop and Android but I could not make it work on Samsung smart TV.
I have downgraded my AIR app to AIR version 2.6 ( it worked fine on my Desktop ) and installed it on the TV but when I tried to play, I got error 3307 (Internal Error). This error happened when I tried to create the DRM Metadata using _drmContentData = new DRMContentData(drmProtectedContent);
Could someone please confirm to me if I can play Adobe Access's DRM content on Samsung Smart TV?
Thank you very much.
The RTMPE spec is supported, so yes, you can do DRM on streaming video. http://www.samsungdforum.com/Devtools/Spec
After confirming with the tech guy from Samsung, it is not possible to use Adobe Access with Samsung Smart TV at the moment.
I'm very new to Symbian application development. I'm googling some beginner tutorials about Symbian development. As there are many versions and many phone vendors, I like to ask you guys who are already have experiments in Symbian development..
My target is to develop small apps for sony ericsson w960i phone that uses Symbian OS v9.1, UIQ 3.0.
The goal of application is to save all incoming/outgoing calls/messages as a backup somewhere (txt file or isolated storage) inside the app.
For example: If I call to someone, my app should receive the events of number/contact name so I can save it to somewhere else.
Can someone help me to suggest to achieve this?
Can I use Nokia Qt to develop apps for "sony ericsson w960i"? If not, which SDK should I use it for my app?
Can Nokia Qt be used to access call triggers/messages? I read that Qt can't access the internal OS stuffs but not sure whether accessing calls/message can be considered as internal OS stuffs.
Thanks in advance.
Are you absolutely sure about UIQ? This is even more dead than Symbian.
Wiki link
BTW, you can also use Symbian code in Qt application.
Well, the main issue here is that neither Sony Ericsson nor UIQ don't even exist anymore.
Sony swallowed the first and the second went bankrupt after Nokia acquired Symbian itself.
So, whatever you end up doing won't be officially supported.
You can still develop applications for the w960i using JavaME but that doesn't have a telephony API so it won't help you with the kind of application you described.
Qt is not available at all on the w960i.
In order to develop applications using Symbian OS C++, you need the UIQ3 SDK. Since you can't download it from any official source anymore, you will have to google for places online where other people have uploaded it. Hopefully, you can find one with a legitimate untouched SDK.
The documentation in the SDK will help you create the UIQ-specific GUI for your application.
For the engine of your application, generic Symbian OS C++ will do. If you are a true beginner, my admittedly biased advice would be to procure a copy of Quick Recipes on Symbian OS since what you need to learn basically amounts to reading several chapters of that book. The code examples in the book will work on the w960i and will show you how to use the Symbian telephony and messaging APIs.
Is it possible to do this on Windows, Mac, and Linux? Anyone have example of how to accomplish?
I'm fairly certain you cannot capture the desktop image in Air without the use of a third party driver or application. Heres a demo using Air with Merapi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp2BzQi-gSU
Are there any testing platforms out there for testing WAP/WML pages besides that provided by Nokia? I have tried to get ahold of the Nokia Mobile Internet Toolkit but it's too tied down with authentication and certificates etc.
Nokia software is like Adobe and......sucks.
It's not really wap-oriented, but Aptana does have a plugin for symbian widgets, which I think is mostly html.
Openwave used to do an SDK for this purpose, which was very useful for testing compatibility with the large number of mobile phones shipped with Openwave Mobile Browsers. Since Openwave sold off their browser business it is no longer available on their websites or those of their successors - they appear to have deleted all the developer support information.
But a Google search for "Openwave SDK" may help.
The Adobe Air introductory documentation and samples seem to separate Air development into 3 different categories:
HTML/Ajax
Flash
Flex
I've read the tutorials and examined some of the code, but I'm not totally clear what the differences between them are, and more importantly why you would choose one approach over the other. Sorry for asking such a basic question (please bear in mind I come from a Windows development background).
I will answer this myself since I've done the research. Here's a summary:
HTML/Ajax, Flash, and Flex are
different approaches to developing
web apps. These technologies can be
combined in a single web app.
Adobe AIR is a runtime which allows you to take those web technologies and run them as a desktop app instead of in the browser. You can combine them in the same app.
Flash is a runtime that was originally created to provide a rich UI to browser based apps. AIR brings the Flash runtime to desktop apps.
Flash runs compiled SWF files and is scripted via ActionScript. Flex is a tool
(SDK, MXML schema for defining UI, etc), which makes it easier to create apps that run on the Flash runtime (it generates SWF files).
Further details see: Adobe AIR FAQ, Adobe AIR (Wikipedia), Adobe Flash (Wikipedia), Adobe Flex (Wikipedia).
As for deciding which approach(es) should be used when developing for AIR, I think that should be based on the experience and preferences of the developers working on it. I don't think Adobe gives any guidance here, because their goal is simply to provide the same options for desktop developers that web developers already have.
I haven't used Flex myself, but I know that you can use it to interact with HTML elements, rather than providing the interface itself via Flash. I'm not clear on what Flash vs. Flex is though.