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‎Jul 15, 2015
10:54 AM
I am using Flash Builder 4.7, so I'm not sure how helpful I'll be, but I'll post my experience anyway. ASC 2.0 is the "fast compiler" they put out awhile back, no? I've got several projects for iOS/Android that are using the new compiler and can embed fonts just fine. I'm currently using AIR SDK 16. Here's a couple working font embed statements:
[Embed(source="../../../embed/doctor_soos_bold_3.0.ttf", fontName="DoctorSoosBold", mimeType = "application/x-font-truetype", embedAsCFF="false")]
protected static var DR_SOOS_FONT:Class;
[Embed(source="../../../embed/Vag Rounded BT.ttf", fontName="Vag", mimeType = "application/x-font-truetype", embedAsCFF="false")]
protected static var VAG_FONT:Class;
After that, I just use a Starling textfield and use the name from the Embed statement, and it works.
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‎Jul 10, 2015
12:05 PM
maybe the app needs to run in admin mode in order to be able to set start at login? I'm grasping at straws here, I'm sorry I can't be of more help. If you have the call to startAtLogin wrapped in if (NativeApplication.supportsStartAtLogin) like you have above, that shouldn't throw an error though, right? It should detect that the feature isn't available and not throw an error.
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‎Jul 09, 2015
10:20 AM
What is the value of NativeApplication.supportsStartAtLogin when running the app with a captive runtime?
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‎Jun 25, 2015
02:11 PM
Wouldn't you compress the JPG at 80 quality before embedding, in your image editor?
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‎Jun 19, 2015
04:57 PM
sure thing! All this stuff can get pretty complex! Also, I didn't mention of course that when you have network, you can check with the server to see if there's new content, and if so, download it and replace the copy in the cache folder. If I've answered your question, would you mind marking my answer correct?
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‎Jun 19, 2015
04:47 PM
1 Upvote
no, the documents directory doesn't exist until the app is installed - it's basically like apps on the windows desktop that make their own subdirectories inside My Documents. All the directories in your IPA, including assets, live in the application directory after installation, kind of like an app's install directory in Program Files on the windows desktop. There is a static File.applicationDirectory property on the File class, it points to the application directory, but it also notes the following:
Modifying content in the application directory is a bad practice, for security reasons, and is blocked by the operating system on some platforms.
I would manually build the shipping assets in the Assets directory before building the IPA, and then when your application downloads new content from the server, put it in the cache directory (available through <code>File.cacheDirectory</code>. When you load content and there's no network, first check in the cache directory, if the file is not then load from the Assets directory. Yes, you're storing two copies but there's really no other choice on iOS.
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‎Jun 19, 2015
03:39 PM
1 Upvote
I don't suggest to use Cache folder because iOS can delete files without any notification.
Using the cache folder for things that can be re-downloaded or re-created by the app follows Apple guidelines. The documents folder is supposed to be for user-generated content. Not following their guidelines could lead to being rejected by the app store. Specifically from the page I linked:
Only documents and other data that is user-generated, or that cannot otherwise be recreated by your application, should be stored in the <Application_Home>/Documents directory
Data that can be downloaded again or regenerated should be stored in the <Application_Home>/Library/Cachesdirectory.
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‎Jun 19, 2015
02:31 PM
Glad to be of service . I also learned something about Xcode debugging, so thank you as well!
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‎Jun 19, 2015
02:30 PM
1 Upvote
this should help: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/filesystem/File.html Make sure you follow Apple's guidelines about where to put downloaded files tho, sounds like they should go in the caches directory: iOS Data Storage Guidelines - Apple Developer I can't remember off top of head if writing to the app's directory is supported or not in iOS, but a better plan would probably be to download it to the caches directory, and then on startup, check to see if the files are there via the File object's <code>exists</code> property, and if they don't exist locally, re-download them. This will follow Apple's guidelines and allow the system to purge your cache if needed when disk space becomes low.
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‎Jun 18, 2015
10:28 AM
2 Upvotes
Here's my device window: If the console pane isn't shown at the bottom, click the arrow in the bottom right to show it. I believe it's collapsed by default, I had troubles finding it when I first used Xcode.
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‎Jun 17, 2015
05:16 PM
You can't see the device logs when you plug your device in and select "Devices" (cmd + shift + 2)? I build apps with Flash Builder 4.7, and the NSLogs from my ANEs show up in XCode when I do that (of course, I can also see all the logs from every other process). However, how to get XCode to debug/do breakpoints if you're not building/launching the app from XCode..... I have no idea if that's possible.
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‎Jun 15, 2015
03:07 PM
Nope. Simulator just LOVES iPhone 5 this is my experience in Flash Builder 4.7
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‎Jun 12, 2015
04:13 PM
An ANE has several parts, detailed in the 5-part tutorial I linked: - a native library for each platform you're targeting (on iOS, this is a .a file) - a SWC library that you use in your AS3 code to call functions in your ANE - an optional default SWC library that has the full API but all the methods stubbed out for platforms you don't support so you can still compile for them. The iOS part will be an XCode project, which you will them compile into a .a. Then you package all the pieces up into an ANE using Adobe's command-line tools. This last part is documented in part 5 of the tutorial I linked: Building a native extension for iOS and Android – Part 5: Building the ANE file | Adobe Developer Connection
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‎Jun 11, 2015
12:01 PM
you'll have to have a server setup and have the app communicate with the server to verify registered users. You'll need a login screen in the app as well. Not that different from having a website with a login requirement, you can do network calls pretty easily in AS3.
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‎Jun 04, 2015
12:15 PM
Oops, didn't realize http/s would make a difference. We're serving the plist files over https for our own adhocs. Glad it worked in the end, though!
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‎Jun 02, 2015
10:00 AM
2 Upvotes
As a workaround, once the new device starts up, I can manually open the debug app from the simulator's home screen. But then I lose the debug connection to flash builder.
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‎May 27, 2015
12:52 PM
yeah, I figured.... I guess I don't quite understand why those keys are a problem - if you require iOS7, shouldn't all the devices that can run iOS7 (iphone 4 and up) also have armv7 and opengles 2.0? We've got several games in review right now built with AIR that target iOS7 and up, targeting armv7 + arm64 (standard architectures), and no problems. It must have something to do with the fact that you're updating a legacy app, I apologize but I'm just not seeing the connection yet. Pardon my ignorance.
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‎May 27, 2015
12:39 PM
I'm totally grasping at straws, but maybe use the same AIR SDK that the app was originally compiled with?
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‎May 22, 2015
11:34 AM
you can always rename .ipa to zip, extract it and look at the contents to see how big everything is.
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‎May 22, 2015
10:38 AM
I have a similar problem - I can choose which device to simulate in Flash Builder, but regardless it always starts up in iphone 5 mode.
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‎May 14, 2015
11:50 AM
Thanks guys! I fixed it in this instance by exporting a WAV from CS6 on my windows machine - in the future I'll definitely look into these other options. Turns out exporting WAV isn't available in mac CS6 either!
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‎May 13, 2015
12:32 PM
I am also disappointed to find that exporting WAV has been removed. I often have swfs with audio tracks composed of several files in a sequence. Looks like I'm gonna install CS6 to get this functionality back..... this was a core feature for me, I don't understand why on earth you would drop support for it if it was already working!
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‎May 11, 2015
05:55 PM
well, there you go! If you can control that, so much the better for you! My people are all remote, so I don't have physical access to their devices or computers. Our team is kinda scattered.
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‎May 11, 2015
05:48 PM
Ohhh, you'd distribute the app to testers. DOH!! Sorry for the misunderstanding Your use case makes much more sense to me now . If they're that non-tech-savvy, will they get tripped up on installing an app on their computer? I so feel your pain because I work with super-non-tech-savvy people all the time, on a small team, with only one other programmer who's in another city. For what it's worth, the link I used was able to be used by a non-technical person. He clicked on the link, pressed a couple buttons to install the profile, then pressed the "Send UDID by email" button on the webpage to send it to me. Regardless of the path you choose, I wish you luck in your endeavors! Apple sure doesn't make this process easy for people like us....... I loved how the old Testflight would automatically grab the UDID after you signed up and registered the device, but alas, it is no more.
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‎May 11, 2015
05:22 PM
Honestly sounds like a lot of work just to get UDIDs, when you could just fire up iTunes or do it on-device with my solution. But hey, if you figure it out, more power to ya, and I'd be interested in seeing how it turns out!
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‎May 11, 2015
05:16 PM
So wait, you're writing an AIR app for desktop, using an ANE to write the USB driver code to get the UDID off a device you plug into the machine via USB? Am I understanding you correctly?
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‎May 11, 2015
05:15 PM
cool. Can you allow my link on the forum now?
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‎May 11, 2015
04:55 PM
Yeah, that's part of why I switched to the solution I did. The link I provided isn't an app, it's a webpage, and it installs a profile on your device in order to get the UDID. No iTunes, no plugging it into USB - just web access is all you need. Doesn't even require a developer account, I sent it to one of my testers w/o a dev account and he was able to get the UDID off just fine. It's the easiest way to get an UDID since testflightapp.com shut down as part of the Apple acquisition. Writing a basic USB driver sounds hard to me, if that sounds like your cup of tea, kudos to you! I've written several ANEs, and they definitely provide their own unique challenges
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‎May 11, 2015
04:48 PM
trying to edit my reply that got rejected, and it doesn't want to let me do so:
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‎May 11, 2015
04:45 PM
Not a sales pitch, sorry, not affiliated with them at all. Just seemed like an easier way to collect UDIDs than trying to do it the way you were going after. Maybe I don't understand what the CLI mobile package installer does, but trying to include it into an app sounds like a serious challenge!
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