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#air24h Challenge: First Video!

Promethe — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:42:09 +0000

Here is the very first video (in French) of the Aerys team during the Adobe AIR 24H Challenge that took place last week. The first half of the video was shot only 2 hours after the begining of the contest. The 2nd half was shot only a few hours before the end of the event...

Adobe AIR Challenge : interview equipe AERYS from michael chaize on Vimeo.

Please support Aerys for the Adobe AIR 24H Challenge

Promethe — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:15:10 +0000

That's it! The challenge is on, every challenger knows his opponents... In 8 days, we will unleash Minko and our secret project to conquer the world... or at least the Flash platform!

In the meantime, we need you! YES, YOU! Our team needs supporters, and you can help up by simply clicking on the above picture or here. You will then be asked to log into your Facebook account to show just how much you love us and you want us to win!

Thank you all for your help. I just want you to know we are setting up for a great show!

Aerys joins the 24H Adobe AIR Challenge

Promethe — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:42:25 +0000

The 24H Adobe AIR Challenge is a 24 hours long contest that will take place the 18th of June in Paris, France.

During this coding challenge, 15 teams of two people will have to build the best AIR application regarding a precise subject. This very subject will be unveiled as the competition starts.

The challenge will be broadcasted live from http://www.adobeairchallenge.com/.

Aerys is very proud to join the competition and we hope to see you there!

And here are a few useful links (in French) :

AIR 2.0 HTTP Web Server

Promethe — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:42:50 +0000

AIR 2.0 brings a lot of new features. Among them is the new ServerSocket class. The Socket class exists since Flash 9 and enabled a lot of new client/server applications. But it has always been limited to client side sockets as long as AIR (and the Flash Platform as a whole for that matter) is concerned. Therefor, this new server socket feature makes it possible to build actual server software using AIR!

Rich of this new and incredible ability, Christophe Coenraets posted a small but yet very powerful code snippet to build an HTTP web server using AIR 2.0!

rSoul v0.1b

Promethe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:03:48 +0000

rSoul is my very first public AIR application. It is an open-source NetSoul client. Since NetSoul is not a commonly used protocol it won't be useful for many people. Still, the NetSoul protocol is mandatory when you want to have access to the PIE (Parc Informatique de l'EPITA). And the source might help anyone willing to build his very first AIR application. The user interface is very light and I tried to keep it as simple and as intuitive as possible.

Like any other AIR application, rSoul is cross-platform and works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. You can install it and get the sources from the rSoul website:

http://rsoul.promethe.net

Here are a few screenshots:

Features

This first release includes the following features:

Online/Away/Busy status
Location configuration
"Remember Password" option
Auto-connect option
Contacts list
Add/Remove contacts
Tabbed chat
Auto-update
Connection errors handling

Known issues

Some special characters are not handled correctly
The application does not (yet) minimize itself to the system tray
Contacts status is not updated

If you found any bug or have any suggestion please feel free to add a comment...

AIR 2.0 Sneak Peek

Promethe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:40:34 +0000

Tonight I attended the "TonTon Flexeurs" (TTFX) meeting with Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers. While Lee explained all the things that can be done to extend the Flash Platform using the ByteArray class, Mike presented a few of the latest as3corelib library features and a sneak peek of AIR 2.0. AIR 2.0 - codename "Athena" - will feature a lot of new system related updates. Discover a few of them (including a worldwide exclusive!) right after the jump...

You can also look at Michael Chaize's event photo album on Flickr!

Volumes monitoring

AIR will provide new APIs to monitor volumes such as USB sticks or Firewire hard drives. Those APIs will enable the user to listen for specific events dispatched when a volume is mounted/unmounted.

Native-processes handling

A new API will enable access to native processes. It will now be possible to launch any "classic" third-party application using ActionScript 3 only. The only drawback being that such AIR applications loses their cross-platform ability and can not be deployed using standards *.air files.

Another API makes it possible to open a file using the default application. A *.txt file would them open itself in notepad, a *.psd file inside Photoshop, a path will open the explorer, etc... and this feature will be available inside any AIR application!

Direct microphone data access

And this is the feature a lot of people have been waiting for! Microphone data will now be directly available through dedicated events and a ByteArray object. It will work pretty much the same way sockets/loaders do: each time sound data is received by the microphone, an event will be fired with the embed sound data as a ByteArray object. It is then very easy to manipulate this sound data or even save it to a *.wav file.

Click the photo to view the full video on Lee Brimelow's "The Flash Blog"

Thank you very much Mike and Lee for all those great news! I bet MAX will be even bigger.