On 8/16/13 8:25 AM, "Alain Ekambi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Exporting the Maps API to Flash/ActionScript should be doable. >This is basically what we do in Java using GWT and FaBridge. I'm not quite sure how you are doing it, and we could poke a hole in Flash and use th e Iframe overlay or StageWebView, but I think the goal would be to display on the Flash display list and/or Stage3D. The terms and conditions warn about reverse-engineering the google code. The MapCanvas sounds like it does a lot of fancy things. I don't know how much work it would be to duplicate without peeking under the hood. > > >2013/8/16 Alex Harui <[email protected]> > >> I'm fine with Google only developing APIs for HTML5. The question is >> whether anybody can build a Flash API around it. That's the premise of >> the FlexJS parallel frameworks. >> >> The mapping API providers that do provide or allow for parallel APIs for >> their maps will have the advantage if/when FlexJS takes off. >> >> -Alex >> >> On 8/16/13 7:39 AM, "Kessler CTR Mark J" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >Based on that recent article about Google pulling the API plug on >> >Microsoft [1], it seems like they are trying to force people into HTML5 >> >for all future apps. However I'm sure it was blown up larger than it >> >needed to be. >> > >> >[1] >> > >> >>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/google-blocks-windows-phone-youtub >>e >> >-app-again-for-manufactured-reasons/ >> > >> > >> >-Mark >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Alex Harui [mailto:[email protected]] >> >Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:29 AM >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex? >> > >> >Has anyone found a point of contact at Google regarding the Maps API >>and >> >Flash? Seems like if lots of people asked them to delay pulling it >>down >> >they might, or folks could convince them to donate the Flash version to >> >Apache or put it out on Google Code. >> >It also wasn't clear whether you could use ExternalInterface to get to >>the >> >Maps API or not. >> > >> >-Alex >> >>
