While looking over the Adobe Flash Player/AIR Roadmap (found here) I saw this:
"Flash Player release and debug players are available and supported for Windows 8 Desktop and Modern UI experiences on both x86/64 and ARM platforms."
Which got me thinking about a potential method that apps for Windows 8 might be able to be released using Flash Player.
Currently, using AIR, you can build apps for Android and iOS, as well as for Windows Desktop. But Windows 8 Modern UI and Windows Phone 8 are both unsupported platforms.
So the idea was this. If IE 10 for Modern UI supports Flash Player, and if HTML5 Modern UI Windows apps use IE under the hood in order to run, then supposedly you could wrap a Flash Player app inside of an HTML5 app, and then, voilà, you'd have a Windows Modern UI app running off of ActionScript. (Though it still wouldn't work for Windows Phone 8.)
Well, I have tested this, and (sadly) it doesn't work. I would almost bet that this isn't because the functionality isn't there, but rather it is because of some switch on the backend that prevents this functionality from being used.
So, finally, here is my question, mainly to sate my curiosity on the subject. Does anyone know whether or not such a backend switch exists, and if so, is there a way to switch it?
I have tried the same thing as you and no, I don't think such a switch exists.
I can only assume Microsoft has purposely blocked off ActiveX controls on purpose, since Silverlight also does not work in HTML5 apps.
It is sort of possible that with Windows 8.1 Update 1, they may change this, but I believe it opens up a lot of problems for them from a security / app store catalogue perspective, so would be unlikely.
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I'm developing a flash game using windows. But will these flash games actually work on linux and mac or do I need to work on something for that to be compatible?
Flash is still very popular when it comes to games (outside web browser obviously).
You can pack your game with Adobe AIR, and it will run on all platforms, except Windows Phones(?). There's tons of native extensions and libraries available for example to get everything done with Android or iOS.
And yes; it runs on windows, mac and linux without Flash player.
Flash requires a Flash Player to run. As long as the OS/Browser supports a Flash player, your program should run.
Most Operating systems (including linux and mac) supports flash players.
It will as long as you have a flash player.
If the os or linux has installed flash player, the answer is yes.
But if you embed it in browser, and used parameters, you must write different HTML tag ( object/ embed).
see: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/pass-variables-swfs-flashvars.html
It's way to late for a flash games.
You should go for java instead.
Or if it's simple serach for html5 games tutorial.
Got a minus so i'm going to answer widely.
No It's not.
Android does not support flash.
Flash is leaky and has a secure issues.
I have a virtual world (user login, create avatar, walk around and play games) running on web with flash/as3 as client side and smartfox2X as server. I have plan to get the whole system into android tablets.
My question is How do I achieve this? or what is the best way to convert the same to run on tabs.. Will the just changing in publish settings from flash player 11 to Air for android work ???
Will the just changing in publish settings from flash player 11 to Air
for android work ???
Yes, this will work to some extends. You will not be able to run native code or to use native acceleration.
You can take a look at Haxe and OpenFL, which allows you to compile "flash" as Android native app.
I recently started doing some development in the Windows Phone 8 OS I'm pretty new on this. I was doing some searching about the fact to create an app who play any audio for some specific events/actions.
I was reading the Windows Phone API reference from Windows Phone Dev Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff626516%28v=vs.105%29.aspx#BKMK_Win32andCOMAPIforWindowsPhone
But it seems a little confusing to me at first glance and I have the doubt of which one of the following should I use to accomplish my task.
The .Net API for Windows Phone
Win 32 and COM API
... or the Windows Phone Runtime API
Any help would be very appreciate
It really depends what you're trying to do. If you're writing a native application or are interested in cross-compatability with Windows 8 then XAudio2 or the WinRT APIs are definitely the way to go. If you just want to play some infrequent sounds (say, when you pop up a warning dialog) from within a XAML app then I have seen a number of approaches, teh easiest of which is probably just having a MediaElement in your XAML that you use to play the audio.
I'm completely new to Windows Phone and the Windows galaxy in general as far as programming goes. For a project of a phone app that has to run on a windows phone, I started exploring the resources and I have some questions.
One of the problems I encountered is that things change very quickly. For example, answers to this question say that browsers in Windows Phone will most likely not support HTML5. However, there are many online tutorials (for instance here) introducing ASP.NET MVC 4 and how it is appropriate for mobile apps.
I would personally like to go the "HTML5+javascript" way instead of learning how to develop with Silverlight, which apparently has been discontinued by Microsoft. However, my first concern is evidently to be able to create an application that works!
So with that in mind, my questions are the following:
My impression is that HTML5+JS is being introduced in replacement of Silverlight and will be more used in the future. Is that correct?
Knowing that I have to build an app which should be able to play videos and audio, record audio, and connect to a library to do some speech processing in the background, should I use Silverlight or can I try using ASP.NET MVC 4? (From what I gather, Silverlight would be better than XNA)
Are there limitations to using HTML5+JS as compared to Silverlight or the other way around?
Can you package a web app (i.e. using HTML5+JS) to be used locally on the phone if there is no access to a distant server?
Any specific pointers or answers on these specific issues will be more than welcome! :)
Currently, Windows Phone 7.1 does not support full HTML5+JS as a replacement for Silverlight. In Windows 8 (NOT the next version of windows phone, but the next version of Microsoft's desktop OS), HTML5+JS is presented as an alternative to using XAML and C# (it's a little confusing because on Windows 8, "metro" apps do not run Silverlight, but they still operate using XAML and C#). But that's neither here nor there... To summarily answer your question(s): In the phone's browser, there is very limited HTML5 capability.
From what you've described, you definitely want to use Silverlight for your Windows Phone app. The answer to that part of your question has never changed, Silverlight from the beginning of WP7 would be your best option. XNA is exclusively designed for gaming development.
To answer all of your questions, point by point:
My impression is that HTML5+JS is being introduced in replacement of
Silverlight and will be more used in the future. Is that correct?
This has not been confirmed (as of this post), but speculation is that this will be the case in some future release of the OS (no word on when that may be). But no, this is not currently an option, and there is no promise from Microsoft that it ever will be.
Knowing that I have to build an app which should be able to play
videos and audio, record audio, and connect to a library to do some
speech processing in the background, should I use Silverlight or can I
try using ASP.NET MVC 4? (From what I gather, Silverlight would be
better than XNA)
Silverlight. Silverlight. Silverlight. :) ASP.NET + MVC will not work. XNA is intended to be used for building games. Attempting to build more standard user interfaces using it would give you a migraine to say the least, and would not look anywhere near good.
Are there limitations to using HTML5+JS as compared to Silverlight or the other way around?
and
Can you package a web app (i.e. using HTML5+JS) to be used locally on the phone if there is > no access to a distant server?
As answered above, there is no way to do this on the phone.
As for pointers on all of this. I strongly encourage you to simply google (or bing if you're into that kind of thing) "getting started with windows phone" or "windows phone tutorials". Best source I could point you to is the Windows Phone Developer website. It's got some great tutorials that don't assume you know lots about windows phone. Best to get this material from Microsoft. It'll be more reliable, more well written, and ultimatly more useful. I've been writing Windows Phone apps since before the phone was released, and I still use it for learning the basics of something new. Great place.
I want to implement something like voip communication that client doesn't need to install additional application, they just open the webpage and talk to a server. Is there anyway to access the audio stream from client microphone via web browser ? I don't want additional plugin like applet that user have to install.
I think flash can do this, but is there anyway else ?
Thank you,
Voteforpedro
Your four main options are:
Flash
Silverlight
ActiveX
Unsecure browser settings (e.g. javascript calling EXEs)
All of the above will be subject to various security limitations or require some acceptance by the end-user. I'm not even certain that the browser calling out to EXEs is even possible any more so it should be avoided at all costs.
Installing an ActiveX control will limit you to IE on Windows, so should probably be avoided. The user would have to agree to installing the ActiveX anyway.
Both Flash and Silverlight are cross-platform (Flash more so than Silverlight) but also require the user to agree to access to the Microphone/Webcam - this is done by the framework, not something you can control/influence. Obviously, if the user does not have Flash or Silverlight installed, you'd need to prompt the user that they need to install it!
As stated by #Oded, there are serious security and privacy issues related to microphone's and webcams, so do not expect future browsers to make this easier for you (e.g. the new family of HTML5 browsers).
There is no standard, I think flash is your best bet.
AS 3.0 Accessing a microphone.
There is no standard that gives you access to the client machine microphone.
I can imagine there are security implication to giving a browser such access, so don't expect to see anything soon, not without some sort of plug-in.
Chrome 11+ supports access to the microphone. Visit this page (with Google Chrome) and click on "Speech" and try it out. This is using Sencha Ext/Touch which is an open library. This specific addon to Sencha Touch is also open source and released here.
Edit: To clarify, this is JavaScript only. The user doesn't need to approve anything. But, it only works in Chrome and it uses Google voice recognition.
Good luck!