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From: Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com>
To: "users@flex.apache.org" <users@flex.apache.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:57:18 -0700
Subject: Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?
Thread-Topic: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?
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On 8/16/13 8:25 AM, "Alain Ekambi" <jazzmatadazz@gmail.com> 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 <aharui@adobe.com>
>
>> 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" <mark.kessler.ctr@usmc.mil>
>> 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]
>> >
>>=20
>>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/google-blocks-windows-phone-youtub
>>e
>> >-app-again-for-manufactured-reasons/
>> >
>> >
>> >-Mark
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Alex Harui [mailto:aharui@adobe.com]
>> >Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 10:29 AM
>> >To: users@flex.apache.org
>> >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
>>
>>