A session on developing applications for BlackBerry Tablet OS using Adobe AIR & SHORT AS3

1. DEVELOPING FOR THE BLACKBERRY TABLET OS
USING ADOBE AIR & SHORT AS3

2. SHORT WAY TO DEVELOP
FOR PLAYBOOK
-Arul Kumaran (@_Arul)

3. PLAYBOOK
• 7-inch LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive
touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture
support
• BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for
symmetric multiprocessing
• 1 GHz dual-core processor
• 1 GB RAM
• Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear
facing), supports 1080p HD video recording
• Open, flexible application platform with
support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash
Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe
Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java

4. REQUIREMENTS
• Flash Builder Burrito Preview(recommended)/Flash Builder/
Command line
• Blackberry Tablet OS SDK
• QNX components
• Flash Builder Plugin
• Playbook Simulator
• Windows - VMware Player (Free)
• Mac - VMware Fusion

5. SET IT UP

6. SET IT UP
• Install Blackberry Tablet OS SDK
• Windows - Install VMware Player
• Mac - Install VMware Fusion
• Install Playbook Simulator
• Run the setup file to extract the .iso file
• Install new Virtual Machine on VMware
using that .iso file as “Other” operating
system
• Increase the memory to 1024k
• Enable Hardware Acceleration
• Allow it to overwrite the filesystem
of the VM

7. CONFIGURE
• Run the Playbook Simulator
in VMware
• Setup a device password
• Enable Development
mode
• Note down the ip address
of the simulator

8. DEVELOPMENT
OPTIONS
• Create a Mobile AS3
project and use QNX
UI components
(recommended by RIM)
• Create a Mobile Flex
project using Hero

9. RUN/DEBUG
• Under the Run
Configurations in Flash
Builder Burrito
• Select “on device”
• Keyin the IP Address
and the device
password
• Run/Debug on the
simulator

10. SHORT AS3
Write less and do more with ActionScript 3.0
•A Micro Framework to
simplify ActionScript 3
• Open sourced under MIT
License
• Works with both Flash
Professional and Flash
Builder
• Distributed as .swc

11. USING SHORT
• Optimizedcommands and
methods for use in both
production and debugging
• Convenience tracking/
tracing methods for
incremental development in
debug mode
• Source code as a reference

12. BLACKBERRY TABLET OS SDK
& SHORT AS3
Match Made in Heaven

13. DEMO
• Short for Mobile Development
• Short for Playbook Development

14. SHORT ON MOBILE
Creating a Flip book with few lines of code

15. SHORT ON PLAYBOOK
Capturing System wide top⇨bottom swipe

16. ABOUT ME
• Profile: http://bit.ly/_arul
• Twitter: @_arul
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