Connecting to the Flickr REST endpoint with DCD

If you are curious about how to connect directly to the Flickr REST endpoint without any extra wrappers or libraries, this post is for you. I will create a simple photo search mobile app in this post but you can easily adapt this to any other methods exposed by the endpoint. Essentially, once you understand how to connect to this API, you can connect to other REST APIs the same way. (more…)

Setting ActionBar Button style based on platform

The typical iOS application has beveled buttons in the ActionBar. On Android, the buttons are flat. There is a property on ActionBar called defaultButtonAppearance which can be set to beveled or normal. By default it is set to normal. You can use CSS Media Queries to set the button style based on platform. (more…)

ItemRenderer: Changing font on hover/selection

The other day I was working on a web app that has a Spark List, and I wanted to customize how a selected or hovered item looked. By default, when you hover over or select a list item, the background color of the renderer changes. I wanted to change the font style instead. This is easy to do with ItemRenderer states. (more…)

MuniTracker for Android and IOS

I developed MuniTracker for Android and IOS using Flash Builder and Flex SDK 4.5 and 4.5.1. It has been on the respective app stores for a few months with thousands of downloads. The application took me about 3-4 days to create, and 2-3 more days to make it work across the two platforms and to prepare it for app store upload. This is an amazingly short time to create any mobile application but such is the beauty of Flex. (more…)