Archive for October 2012

If you are planning to use the StageVideo in Adobe AIR for an Android app you will need to take note of the following points.

In the application xml manifest document ensure that you have the renderMode set as : <renderMode>direct</renderMode>
In your Actionscript class set an event listener to listen for the availability of the StageVideo on the android device

stage.addEventListener(StageVideoAvailabilityEvent.STAGE_VIDEO_AVAILABILITY, availabilityChangedHandler);

In the event handler you can instantiate an instance of the Video class as a fallback if there is no StageVideo, or go ahead and initialise the StageVideo.
After activating the StageVideo make sure that you set the size of the StageVideo viewport (or you will hear your streamed video and not see any pictures whatsoever).
If you are developing with the Flex SDK you need to set the application background alpha to 0

svideo = stage.stageVideos[0];

svideo.viewPort = new Rectangle( 0, 0, 622 , 480 ) ;

For the moment I think thats the nub of it. New findings will be added. Please note that StageVideo is only supported in AIR 3+ runtime

To install the Adobe AIR rintime on your Android emulator, do the following.

Download the Android AIR apk.
Navigate to your Android adb, it is in the AndroidSDK/platform tools
Open and run your emulator
Open a terminal or command prompt and type the following: adb install /path/to/your/AIR/runtime.apk

That should do it.

If you have an error like this,

right click on project name, open properties.
Select Java Build Path (from left menus)
Under the "Libraries" tab, find the entry 'Unable to get system library for project', select it then click on the Remove button.
Select Android (from left menus), tick on the version of android you want to target.
Select Project menu (main top level menu), select Clean... Select OK.
Right click on project name again, go down to Android Tools > Fix Project Properties.

That should fix it. At least it did for me.

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