Some Notes after completing my first Mobile application...

I just finished my first mobile application with Flash Builder Burrito AIR.  It took me a little over 3 weeks.  Even though I'm an experienced programmer, I had no experience with Flash Builder, AIR, ActionScript, etc.  If so, I could fall out this app in a week!  I am very impressed with the ease of development compared to some other platforms I have developed on (native Android, webOS, titanium and a few others).  That said, I ran into a number of issues that I believe, if properly addressed, would be very beneficial for developers, users and the platform as a whole (so I hope that Adobe employees visit this post and read on!).


Forms and fields


Support for the forms could be much better.  Any questions I have met, those related to fields of form took longer time to resolve that any other.  Three Markdown really however...


  1. There is a kind of property "placeholderText" which displays its value within a field unfinished (gray part preference).  When the user clicks in the text field should disappear.  If the user leaves the field without entering anything, it should reappear.  This will cancel the need for labels they are currently used, save precious screen space.  It was not difficult to write a function that does this, but it's something that should be built in.
  2. Form validation tools are essential!  There should be a way to test & flag common types of fields that are not filled correctly (single currency, numeric, text, email, etc.). Built in functions that do this would save developers time.  I created my own, but I have not found a way to change the background or color of the text fields on the fly.  Instead I just asked the user without bringing out the specific areas.  This may be due to my inexperience with this platform, but once again, it is something that developers should not have to reinvent the wheel with over and over again.
  3. There should be a way to specify which keyboard is displayed whenever a field is selected.  For example, if I know that the user enters a zip code and then a keypad should display.  There are a multitude of available keyboards, but the ability to switch between text and digital should be the bare minimum.


Guests user


I found it strange that there is not a way to quickly invite users.  I tried the function of Alert.show () without success.  I got my own all kinds of bearing warning system.  It works very well indeed, but still...


Projects under implementation


It is something minor, but annoying.  I don't know if it's a problem of Flash Builder or Eclipse issue, but if you run an application and you already have an open instance you receive an error indicating such.  It would be great if she is simply closed the old instance and opened a new.  I know, very minor.  I'm just saying...

The native device functions

> Notifications

> Access to contacts

Others?


I'm really interested in hearing other questions that you guys met (large and small) and what you did to solve it!




Thank you two for the entrance!  I'm this long transmission to the team for others to see.

Chris

Tags: Adobe AIR

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