Comments on: No AIR Support for Google Maps Flash API

By: Flex/Air - Google Maps API non compatible avec Adobe Air - Adobe Flex Tutorial - Tutoriaux Flex Builder, MXML, ActionScript, AS3

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:40:37 +0000

[...] le billet du blog de Ryan Stewart (Adobe), il semble que l’on ne puisse pas utiliser l’API Google Maps Flash dans une [...]

By: FlexLive.net » Flex Developer Update - May 20, 2008

FlexLive.net » Flex Developer Update - May 20, 2008 — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:20:56 +0000

[...] released a Flex API for Google Maps. The licensing terms leaves AIR in the cold. Never the less, it breaks new ground in terms of building distributed components in [...]

By: Matthew Keefe

Matthew Keefe — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:57:36 +0000

I was happy to see Google Maps in Flash, but this new wrinkle is just upsetting. I wonder if this has anything to do with Google Apps? Hopefully they will change it soon.

By: Fabianv

Fabianv — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:04:15 +0000

I’m totally dissapointed.. bad Google! bad bad!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:28:03 +0000

How utterly short-sighted. Yahoo! Maps it is then.

By: James Whittaker

James Whittaker — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:39:26 +0000

I'm 100% behind this, I was excited yesterday when the news broke but now as in the cold light of day things are not that clear for us AIR developers. I have offered up my support and I have posted the details up on the news section of freshAIRapps to gain more support.

By: Matt Giger

Matt Giger — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:11:09 +0000

Can't you just use the HtmlLoader class to view a website with a google map on it. If your application is an actual web browser, you aren't violating it are you? Mind you, that isn't the Flash API, but what if you visit a website built in flex? Really the lines are so blurry with an embedded web browser. Shameless plug: Take a look at EarthBrowser to see a great AIR app.

By: beussery

beussery — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:55:38 +0000

If enough folks submit requests there is no telling what might happen! I’d get the community in on this issue….

By: Brandon Ellis

Brandon Ellis — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:35:41 +0000

seems like more and more the big guys are saying, “Build more! Build more! Build what we want. Not what you want.”

By: Charlie Szymanski

Charlie Szymanski — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:23:54 +0000

Ryan,

It looks like this will be the default issue for requesting AIR support.

If everyone that wants AIR support can star that issue, it may help them move it through faster.