Resources for FlashinTO demo of AIR on Blackberry Tablet OS

Oct 27, 2010

For FlashinTO Gathering v93.0 I'm doing a quick presentation of a very basic demo app I've put together for the Blackberry Tablet OS using AIR 2.5.

Here's the stuff you need to do this:
Flash Builder – you can download a demo from Adobe if you don't have it
Blackberry Tablet OS SDK, Getting Started Guide and Playbook Simulator - http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/tablet/
VMWarePlayer - https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=player&lp=default
Blackberry AIR API Docs - http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/airapi/1.0.0/index.html

Read the Getting Started Guide provided by Blackberry. It walks you through installation of the SDK and how to get the Simulator running in the VMware player.

The Getting started guide also has a quick Hello World demo you can build and get running quickly. From there take a look through the API docs to see what else is available specifically for the Tablet OS.

For the demo I'm showing at FlashinTO I'm also using the OSMF media framework for the video playback in case anyone's interested. http://www.opensourcemediaframework.com/

UPDATE: for a much better overview of all this, check out Julian Dulce's MAX presentation: 
http://2010.max.adobe.com/online/2010/MAX260_1288217641375UQJD

 

Comments

Matthew Fabb

Matthew Fabb wrote on 10/29/10 1:11 AM

A quick note to a problem that I ran into and others might as well. If you are running a 64-bit version of Windows and have 64-bit version of Java, you need to uninstall that and install the 32-bit version of Java. Otherwise the simulator and SDK keep giving you a Win64 error.

I'm still working away on trying to get a Flex Hero project up and running using the Blackberry Tablet OS SDK. If I manage to get it working, I'll likely write a blog post about it as it's a bit tricky.
Rick Mason

Rick Mason wrote on 11/01/10 3:04 PM

Good to know about the 64bit issue. I just installed 64bit Win7 over the weekend at home.
Matthew Fabb

Matthew Fabb wrote on 11/03/10 6:42 PM

Well, someone beat me to blogging about creating a Flex app with the BlackBerry SDK:
http://shanky.org/2010/11/03/first-steps-with-blackberry-playbook-air-sdk/

Although that seems to be a standard Flex app rather than a mobile Flex Hero app.

Personally, I've been having issues launching to the VMware Player.

Also the other thing I noticed is that you can't add any of the QNX components to your Flex app without generating errors. I imagine the work around for that is putting the QNX components into a separate SWF and loading that.

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