Alpha version of YouTube Video Widget, allows you to search videos from YouTube and download them into your local drive. Once you go offline the application automatically aware of the change and switches to offline mode, which allow you to view the downloaded videos.
Application can be deployed on desktops or on a touch screen UMPC as well as future ARM devices that will support AIR 1.5.
Download the application from Adobe AIR Marketplace or from here.
Developed with Flex 4 (Gumbo), Flash Catalyst and AIR 1.5. The framework is Caringorm with the Presentation Model, allows us to easily create a template so the application changes based on platform.
Once you select a video you can download the video. Which will be saved on your local drive and information captured in SQLite database. In fact the application recognize automatically that you went offline.
I made a quick presentation that shows the application capabilities. Take a look at the video below:
The full tutorials and explanation on how to build applications like this one will be available in our new book which will be out in May by APress and can be purchased now for a limited discount price from Amazon.
Nice! If you have a chance, I’d love to chat over email with you about what you thought of the workflow between Catalyst and Gumbo - especially with Cairngorm thrown in.
=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com
I found that working on a large application using the presentation model or Mediator (in PureMVC) is crucial, in my opinion, in order to integrate Flash Catalyst with Flex Builder. The new paradigm and FXG new component is all about splitting the visual and interactive from the logic and data, the same should happened in Flex.
Flash Catalyst integrates very well with Caringorm when using the Presentation model since there is no logic involved in the component. The logic is placed into the PM and you can send the MXML component back to Flash Catalyst without worrying about losing or changing the logic. In fact, this also works very well with FlexUnit and TDD mythologies.
Your adobe link is not working dude
It looks like Adobe AIR marketplace changed the URL, here’s the new one:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?event=marketplace.offering&offeringID=10390
Isnt this a little much? What makes this better than real player’s in page download of streaming video?