Deploy flex app to Android Tablet

[ShawnKraft]

Okay I have tried to find someone to talk to about Flex API 2.5 and Flashbuilder at ESRI but its been a pain. I currently run Flex API 2.3 and Flashbuilder 4. I want to update to the newest version of the Flex API 2.5 and Flashbuilder. I saw on the 'net, a guy who was able to use Flashbuilder 4.5.1 to export a release build app to an Android device. Does anyone know about this capability? Once the app is on the Android tablet, what can the user do with it, can they edit attributes offline? Also, I am confused about the talk of Apache.

[AaronNash]

Mansour Radd originally posted some sample code on his blog, can be found here. Don't remember what version of flash builder but I think its 2.4, you would need that to compile a mobile application for the android phone using the Flex API. You could build the app to handle everything the ArcServer Flex API can put out, plus make use of some of the native features on the mobile device using adobe air to access them, even hit the GPS on the phone for geolocation. Not sure what Apache has to do with developing android apps, its an open source web server.

[ShawnKraft]

Thats awesome.  I wonder if I could build the app to allow offline editing of shapefiles.

[AaronNash]

not sure about disconnected editing, I have a colleague that was trying to do that. He was looking into a way to create a remote database on the phone and replicate the GIS data onto the device to edit locally. Here is another post from Mansour about storing map tiles for offline use. I thought that was a neat approach for areas with spotty service

[BjornSvensson]

FYI about the API itself: disconnected editing is not supported in ArcGIS API for Flex 2.5.