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Easy Native Extensions 2nd edition is out!

Posted on June 11th, 2015 · Posted in Uncategorized

Yep. Finally. Yey! Among all the new content and code examples, the second edition of Easy Native Extensions comes with a whole additional book on converting data between ActionScript and native code for iOS.

Easy Native Extensions Book – second edition

Posted on May 6th, 2015 · Posted in Adobe AIR Native Extensions, How to..., ID

The Easy Native Extensions eBook proved itself as a must have in the tool set of an iOS ANE developer for the last couple of years. As some of our readers put it: “Your eBook on ANE’s is one of the best investments I have made. The excellent explanations and example..
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Native Extensions 101

Posted on December 23rd, 2014 · Posted in Uncategorized

The DiaDraw Team would like to wish you a very happy festive season with our Native Extensions 101 collection of articles and tutorials on making Adobe AIR Native Extensions. Enjoy!

Tutorial: Making a Windows ANE

Posted on December 22nd, 2014 · Posted in Adobe AIR Native Extensions, How to...

We have just published a new tutorial series on our website easynativeextensions.com. This new tutorial takes you through the steps of coding, building, packaging, testing and debugging a native extension for Windows. Interested? Start here: Windows ANE tutorial: introduction Part 1: The native DLL project, 8-10 minutes Part 2: The..
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Release: Camera driver for iOS and Android

Posted on December 8th, 2014 · Posted in Adobe AIR Native Extensions, How to...

We have been sitting on this for a couple of years, unsure of whether it’s worth making another Camera ANE release. But with more than 300 downloads of our Camera Tutorial for iOS we thought you readers spoke loud and clear. While the Camera Tutorial shows you step-by-step how to..
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Release: Updates to our screen recording ANEs

Posted on November 26th, 2014 · Posted in Adobe AIR Native Extensions

iOS 8 developers, rejoice, we support you! We are updating all of our ANEs to support iOS 8 and the latest AIR SDK. These three are ready for you to download: How do I update? If you have already purchased one of these ANEs you get an update for free. This is how to download..
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Camera Native Extension – iOS Update

Posted on March 12th, 2014 · Posted in Adobe AIR Native Extensions

Remember this? Here is what’s new with the Camera Native Extension: Fixed a memory leak in applyFilters(), reported by our DiaDraw.com reader decapyre. Improved thread synchronisation. Introduced a separate frame rate for consuming frames (see REFRESH_RATE_FRAMES_PER_SECOND in CameraTestAppHomeView.mxml). Introduced NativeCameraExtensionEvent.CAMERA_STARTED to signal when the camera is ready to produce frames. The..
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Easy Native Extensions is out!

Posted on February 27th, 2014 · Posted in Adobe AIR Native Extensions, How to..., ID

EasyNativeExtensions.com is out! Some of you have been waiting for this announcement for months. It’s finally here, check it out: easynativeextensions.com What is EasyNativeExtensions.com? This is the new AIR ANE-dedicated website by The DiaDraw Team. We are making this website the number one resource for information about AIR Native Extensions with:..
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iOS Camera extension – iOS 7 update

Posted on January 31st, 2014 · Posted in Adobe AIR Native Extensions

It was about time we updated the Camera AIR Native Extension for iOS 7 and AIR SDK 4.0. We also fixed a couple of bugs along the way, including this one, reported by admin@cuijiahao.com: What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Set camExt.startVideoCamera( NativeCameraExtension.PresetPhoto, 24, 50, false); 2. bytearray returned with..
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E-mail native extension – iOS7 fix

Posted on November 7th, 2013 · Posted in Adobe AIR Native Extensions, How to...

April 2014 update: we have moved the project and packaged it with a sleek manual on our new website, along with a sleek manual and demo video. Check it out: http://easynativeextensions.com/product/diadraw-e-mail-ane/ Good morning/afternoon/fill in your timezone, AIR people! A lot of you got in touch to tell us that the release of..
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