P2P in Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet Flex Apps

P2P in Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet Flex Apps:

Using the open source Flex SDK developers can easily build desktop, mobile, and tablet applications which utilize Peer to Peer (P2P) communication. I’ve created a video that walks through demos and code illustrating how to use the P2P APIs in Adobe AIR applications. Check it out:

Grab the code for the demos in the video from github:

• P2Pong
• P2Hancock (Signature capture over P2P)

Just as the video shows, it’s incredibly easy to use the P2P APIs. Here is a quick walk through. First create a new NetConnection that is connected to “rtmfp:” like so:

localNc = new NetConnection();
localNc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatus);
localNc.connect("rtmfp:");

In the netStatus event listener wait for the “NetConnection.Connect.Success” event and then setup the NetGroup [...]

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