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‎Oct 17, 2014
03:08 PM
Hi, I'm just about to release an update for iOS that fixes several issues, it would be good if you could test this version and let me know if you're still experiencing the problem? It will be in github later today. Regards, Michael
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‎Oct 16, 2014
07:45 PM
bjudy003 This is an idea we were considering, similar to what Parse have done : http://parse.com/help . I totally agree that Stackoverflow is a great system for questions. My concern with this, is again with fragmentation, so we'd probably have to limit it to either stackoverflow or a forum.
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‎Oct 16, 2014
03:55 PM
These are great suggestions, I do agree that we need to get the community involved, and I know our knowledge base is quite lacking at the moment. Up to now we have been putting a lot of work into the ASDocs but obviously that isn't the best place for knowledge base type information. I want to make sure that whatever we go with, we reduce the fragmentation we currently have. As you said having multiple areas to search is not only hard on you but it's hard for us to monitor the questions everywhere and I believe we've missed a lot of your questions due to this. So we need: - community based forum - improved knowledge base - bug tracking system Any ideas on software to do this?
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‎Oct 15, 2014
10:56 PM
2 Upvotes
So after almost a year of using Uservoice, we've realised that it's not meeting the needs of supporting our extensions so we wanted to ask for suggestions on how we can better improve the experience and support we provide. We do strive to provide great support but comments from the community seem to indicate we're not meeting your expectations. We are a small team and the extensions by no means pay our bills so what we are looking at is improving our usage of available tools to provide better support. Our current thoughts are to move completely to github for issues and wiki, and start a public forum, perhaps a group on Google groups, but we are very open to suggestions at this stage. We're hoping to update over the next month. Any suggestions you have as to better software or ways to utilise github will be most welcome, or even if there's something that you feel we're not doing well enough at the moment. Cheers, Michael
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‎Oct 15, 2014
10:10 PM
Hi tamak1234, Would you be able to give me some additional information about what you are experiencing? You should be able to play a sound with your delayed notification on iOS. What version of iOS are you testing on? Cheers
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‎Oct 15, 2014
03:03 PM
Yeah okay, How are you building the iOS library (.a) ? Are you compiling for a device and pulling the file out of Release-iphoneos/
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‎Oct 09, 2014
03:09 PM
Hi, That one sounds like a Xcode build settings problem. Things to check: - Base SDK: iphoneos - Supported Platforms: iphoneos - Valid Architectures: arm64 armv7 armv7s - Other Linker Flags: -ObjC - Automatic Reference Counting: YES - Enable Linking With Shared Libraries: YES Cheers
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‎Oct 08, 2014
06:17 PM
Hi, I'd guess it's something to do with Java variations on the two platforms, but not sure. It does look like your error is related to a packaged resource in an ANE though? Whoever created the ANE you are using should rename the colors.xml file to something more unique. We've taken to prefixing ours with the extension id, eg: com_distriqt_dialog_colors.xml. I can verify that doing this removes the error in all of our cases. Cheers
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‎Aug 20, 2014
07:45 PM
Hi, I'm facing the same problem, just wondering if you figured out a way around it or if the issue still exists with the current AIR releases? Regards, Michael
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‎Jul 31, 2014
03:14 PM
Hi, I meant the java code that you are writing as part of your native extension. Generally you create an "android library project" to contain the native code, but it includes several default resources that were causing our problem. Cheers
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‎Jul 27, 2014
04:13 PM
I figured out what was causing our error so I thought I'd let you know, see if it helps you. We had left the default strings.xml and other resources in the android library that we were writing our extension in. They just define some defaults (like app_version) and use it in the mail.xml layout. As we don't actually use any of that in our extension we simply removed it, and the errors disappeared. Any resources that we do use in our library (layouts/strings/images) we just make sure that they are uniquely names in our extension and don't overlap any of our other extensions or default file names (such as strings.xml). Hope that helps
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‎Jul 10, 2014
03:48 PM
Hi, Yeah I think you're right, the whole point of enabling native extensions was so that they could rely on the community to provide access to the 100's of native libraries that are available. We're not even just talking standard iOS/Android SDK functionality, but any third party library as well. Parse, Facebook, TestFlight etc.. If you're interested in a game services extension, we're trying to get a new cross-platform version together: Game Services AIR Native Extension by distriqt — Kickstarter
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‎Jul 09, 2014
11:31 PM
I don't want to have an argument with you, I've never said anything bad about any of our competition. I'm just going to show 2 of the data objects in Milkman games Game Center and Google Play extensions, this is not a complaint, I'm merely showing you where a wrapper class will start to fall down. I could do this with any API. com.milkmangames.nativeextensions.ios.GCAchievementData com.milkmangames.nativeextensions.GPGAchievement Cheers
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‎Jul 09, 2014
11:18 PM
omri11 Thanks for the support, though I'm sorry to hear you've had a hard time with Milkman. It's never good to hear bad things about the platform. But you're exactly right, cross platform is what we are trying to provide. So when we say first, we mean first cross platform, our research has all been based around that.
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‎Jul 09, 2014
10:54 PM
xTLS Sorry if I came across as being facetious but that wasn't my intent. I definitely didn't mean to put down Milkman's extensions if that's how you took it and I wasn't just referring to their extensions regarding the licensing either (and yes we have had people tell us that other extension licenses involved profit share). I was merely trying to point out why we are attempting to do this, we're just 2 developers trying to make things easier to develop with AIR. I will make one note though, while you are correct that it's not hard to create a wrapper in several lines of code that performs the simple tasks, once you start talking about some of the more important features, multiplayer, loading leaderboards, friends, achievements, your wrapper class will become quite large, with different data structures and conversion utilities. For someone who has already developed a set of code for one platform, it does mean a lot of work to refactor once they move to packaging for another. And honestly it's unnecessary work.
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‎Jul 08, 2014
04:20 PM
Hi, Yes you are correct, there are currently a few basic gaming extensions available. We believe that none of them truly encapsulate the AIR development methodology. The available extensions, including those from milkman games, are single platform and single operating system. So for example if you wanted to use Google Play Services on iOS and Android it currently isn’t possible. Or if you wanted to quickly switch from Game Center on iOS to Play Services on Android, you would have to write two completely different code bases to handle each OS. In our own experience this makes integration of game services much harder in a cross-platform development environment and doesn’t support the AIR cross-platform development methodology. Our aim is to provide a single API to access multiple game services (initially Google Play and Apple Game Center, extending to Amazon and others in the future). This would allow you to use the same code base, with some configuration options and package for both Android and iOS. Additionally, we are planning to be the first extension to provide turn-based multiplayer functionality through the game services. Lastly, the cost of our extension through the kickstarter project is significantly less than the equivalent extensions available elsewhere (less than half I believe). Our license is more liberal than most, not requiring any profit share, just the upfront cost of the extension and is assigned to a developer, not each individual client. Cheers, Michael
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‎Jul 07, 2014
05:21 PM
The game services project has gotten off to a great start but we still need your help to make this extension a reality. As you may know, we've started a kickstarter project that will allow us to dedicate the resources necessary to create an well polished AIR native extension to access the Apple Game Center and Google Play Game Services. We're making progress but we still need your help. In the past week we've added some FAQ's and have provided some information on the proposed API. It would be great if you could take the time to share the project with anyone you feel who may be interested and hopefully we can get this project completed. Cheers, Michael
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‎Jul 07, 2014
05:12 PM
A native extension is the only way I know of doing this at the moment Our Dialog ANE, has date time pickers if your interested in a well supported extension: http://distriqt.com/product/air-native-extensions/dialog
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‎Jul 02, 2014
04:31 PM
Help us create the next distriqt native extension We are aware that there's a lot of interest in creating an AIR native extension (ANE) to handle cross platform game services (as our suggestion site indicates here). While we have made a start on this extension we just don't have the time to dedicate to developing this extension. So we are asking you to help us. We've started a kickstarter project that will allow us to dedicate the resources necessary to create an well polished AIR native extension to access the Apple Game Center and Google Play Game Services. The pledges vary from a simple website credit, to the complete finished source code, however we imagine most will be interested in the large discount on the final extension license. Even if you can't donate please help us spread the word and continue making AIR a great platform to develop on. Cheers, Michael
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‎Jun 10, 2014
10:27 PM
Hi, I've been trying to create a way to play a media file that is packaged with an AIR application from within a native extension. However I've come into a problem that seems to be related to the way the assets are getting packaged into the APK. I'm trying to access the files using the Android AssetManager something like: context.getAssets().openFd( "video/big_buck_bunny.mp4" ); However this commonly results in the error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: This file can not be opened as a file descriptor; it is probably compressed I can list out all the assets in the AssetManager and can definitely confirm the asset is known and present. When I inspect the packaged APK, indeed the file is compressed and not Stored as it should be. eg the following is a file from unzip -v App.apk 5510872 Defl:N 5044897 9% 06-11-14 12:15 30431fa9 assets/video/big_buck_bunny.mp4 where you can see the Defl:N indicates it's compressed (by 9%). However some files will be Stored correctly: 390668 Stored 390668 0% 11-15-13 10:06 2d380eae assets/Default-568h@2x.png 5015 Defl:N 4384 13% 03-25-13 21:24 2b6284ce assets/Default.png 211743 Defl:N 211329 0% 11-12-13 10:58 9384a8ae assets/icons/icon512x512.png 6536 Stored 6536 0% 11-12-13 10:58 ea5ca1e6 assets/icons/icon57x57.png It seems very inconsistent with an AIR application. According to the documentation Android should not compress the following asset file types (from Package.cpp in the aapt source code): ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".gif", ".wav", ".mp2", ".mp3", ".ogg", ".aac", ".mpg", ".mpeg", ".mid", ".midi", ".smf", ".jet", ".rtttl", ".imy", ".xmf", ".mp4", ".m4a", ".m4v", ".3gp", ".3gpp", ".3g2", ".3gpp2", ".amr", ".awb", ".wma", ".wmv" and indeed when I package the same assets in an android packaged application the files aren't compressed. Of course I know I can work around this by reading the file out and writing it to a cache or temp location however this seems to be a bug in the way AIR is packaging Android applications and was wondering if anyone has encountered this or found a workaround. Cheers, Michael
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‎Jun 10, 2014
10:11 PM
1 Upvote
Hi, I've been investigating the issue trying to get access to video files packaged in an AIR app from an ANE but they are sometimes compressed in the APK rather than just being stored. Once they are compressed you get the following error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: This file can not be opened as a file descriptor; it is probably compressed I think this has to be an error in the AIR packaging, as they shouldn't be compressed. Any files like mp3, mp4, png etc shouldn't be compressed according to the Android packager.
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‎Jun 10, 2014
10:09 PM
Hi, I think the problem here is actually something to do with the way AIR is packaging the assets. I've been investigating the issue trying to get access to video files packaged in an AIR app from an ANE but they are sometimes compressed in the APK rather than just being stored. Once they are compressed you get the error you've encountered: java.io.FileNotFoundException: This file can not be opened as a file descriptor; it is probably compressed I think this has to be an error in the AIR packaging, as they shouldn't be compressed. Any files like mp3, mp4, png etc shouldn't be compressed according to the Android packager.
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‎May 27, 2014
06:53 PM
What are you using to package ? We've had some really odd results on Windows with Android ANE's that have a packaged resources and haven't been able to resolve it yet. While the same extensions package under OSX. Errors include things like: aapt tool failed:C:\Users\{Name}\AppData\Local\Temp\599734f5-ec3d-438e-ac4c-b0d4ec98a0c3\app_entry_res\values\strings.xml: 19: error: Resource at app_version appears in overlay but not in the base package; use <add-resource> to add.
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‎May 08, 2014
04:28 PM
Sorry about not getting back to you, I just replied to your email, but yes our extension does open within your application, but has those controls as part of it at the moment. I'm in process of removing them for a customer so we should have the additional functionality to hide the controls soon. Cheers
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‎May 08, 2014
04:17 PM
Hi, Our extension (distriqt) doesn't provide this functionality at the moment. However we are always looking to add features to our extensions so if you want us to look into it feel free to add it as a suggestion to our support site: http://distriqt.uservoice.com Cheers
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‎May 08, 2014
04:11 PM
Hi all, Glad to hear the positive feedback on our local notification extension. As to the sound problems, it is due to the default setting for the application being turned off. Unfortunately there's no way to control this setting programmatically (at the moment at least) and I haven't been able to figure out why some apps have the default notification sound off and some not. It is happening to native applications as well so it's not an AIR related issue. So the best advice I have at the moment is to be aware of it and make it a part of your help / guide for your application. Cheers, Michael
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‎May 08, 2014
04:03 PM
Sure is, complete cross-platform, Android/iOS, iBeacon interface. You can find it here: http://distriqt.com/product/air-native-extensions/beacon >> Moved to here: distriqt // air native extensions
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‎Apr 05, 2013
03:12 AM
Did you ever get anywhere with this? Facing the same problem myself at the moment.
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‎Oct 10, 2012
11:50 PM
It's pretty simple once you figure it out. In your FREFunction you'll need: NSString * someString = @"test string"; FREObject result = NULL; FRENewObjectFromUTF8( strlen((const char*)[someString UTF8String]) + 1, (const uint8_t*)[someString UTF8String], &result); return result;
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‎Oct 04, 2012
04:53 PM
Yeah all our extensions have a default library (so the API works even when there isn't a specific ANE for the platform) and have the iOS and Android versions matched as closely as possible. There are some differences in some of them but the API is the same. For example, you can get more information about a dialog closing on one platform than another, i.e. under Android there are 2 ways of closing it so there are additional events to support that information. Let us know if you have any questions or problems using the ANE's. We're always looking for ways to improve them!
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