Sometimes there is a need when you need to detect what environment your Flex mobile application is running. Common scenario with my projects is to launch a Link to PDF to a external browser rather than using StegeWebView which is built in to Flex SDK. There could be many other scenarios that I can think of but it depends on the Application writer why and when its required Here is the code snippet that will help ya out public function getOS():String { [crayon-651e271f9fd9b637127329/] [crayon-651e271f9fda0041719713/] [crayon-651e271f9fda1106192961/] [crayon-651e271f9fda2578085740/] [crayon-651e271f9fda3687141682/] [crayon-651e271f9fda4516971277/] If you would like to add anything to the above code please leave a comment.   Cheers   .   … [Read more...]

I have tested this on Samsung Galaxy S but the instruction should apply to all other devices out there. Download the file below, Dont worry its not a virus :), the size of the file is 1 Byte. {filelink=3} or if you do not want to download the file below then follow the instructions below open notepad type "hello" save it as "default.html" somewhere on your computer where you can remember the path. Now transfer the above file that you created or the downloaded one to your Android phone or tablet. Remember which folder you copied it to. Now Follow the instructions below Open File Manager App in your Android phone Navigate to the folder to which you have copied above file to Now Click on default.html file. you will be asked what application you would like to use to open the above file. Choose the already installed new browser and remember to check "Set as default" checkbox Groovy you are good to go. Default browser changed :). You can do this to many supported file extensions. Hope this helps Cheers … [Read more...]

Well I like working Flash Builder as an IDE but there are some times when it gives weird things. This happened to me last week so I thought I should share. Now it gets frustrating when I try to debug my in development App and It always gives me NullPointerException In my case it turned out to be  XML service for my website feed that i created to display news on the App I am developing. After I removed the service the debugging started as per normal. Now I am not sure why would this be the case and why FB fail to register XML service in debug mode. I guess I may be doing something really wrong somehow and somewhere I am running Flash Builder for PHP 4.5.1. Another thing i observe sometimes is that the service you create (PHP) becomes corrupted altogether, no matter what you do, you'll have to remove that service and re-add it to make things work. But sometime even deleting the service won't work. I'll discuss in my next post about how to go about removing the service if your IDE doesn't help. Leave a comment if You'ld like to add something to my experience. Cheers   . … [Read more...]

Well simple answer to this is that you got few ways to do this. lets see a few of them to start with in you main application tag add persistNavigatorState="true"  so that it looks like below code snippet. When persistNavigatorState is set to true, your application will save the state of your Views and data to a Local Shared Object which by no means is encrypted. You have to write your own custom persistentManager by implementing IPersistenceManager interface. [crayon-651e271fa02d2168497431/] this tell the mobile environment to start persisting View data. but remember that once you pop out of view that View is destroyed completely. but the Views that are the the stack should be set destructionPolicy to never so that you View element looks like this [crayon-651e271fa02d5126781679/] [crayon-651e271fa02d6758557070/] [crayon-651e271fa02d7815419205/] [crayon-651e271fa02d8554508089/] persistenceManager.setProperty("myStoredProperty","myStoredVal"); // setup custom property:myStoredProperty persistenceManager.getProperty("myStoredProperty"); // retrieve the value of custom property:myStoredProperty [crayon-651e271fa02d9482416185/] [crayon-651e271fa02da418152169/] [crayon-651e271fa02db719255202/] [crayon-651e271fa02dc458458929/] [crayon-651e271fa02dd794485955/] [crayon-651e271fa02de648700846/] [crayon-651e271fa02df095354908/] [crayon-651e271fa02e0873813104/] … [Read more...]