My first application in Apollo Alpha is a mp3 player.At that time it was a simple player  capable of  playing mp3 files from system directories.Then I thought of writing a tutorial out of it for others to follow. But after Rich Tretola posted about this tutorial in his blogeverythingflex site in a separate category called Apollo Tutorials (Community)
 the number of readers grew in hundreds.This prompted me to extend this tutorial to showcase various features of Apollo than to write a new tutorial everytime.I also feel this sort of tutorialization would prove more beneficial for the readers as in many real case scenarios developement is done in a phasewise manner.
Today I posted the third part of the tutorial.

Tutorials
1. Creating a mp3 player in Apollo and Flex 2
2. Making the mp3 player Window Transparent
3. Displaying ID3 info of mp3 file in a separate Window

This time Apollo JukeBox mp3 player demonstrates the Native Windowing capabilities to display id3 info of mp3 file.

Here is the screenshot:

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The ApolloJukeBox mp3 player now uses the transparent window feature of Apollo framework.

Here is the screenshot:


The background is the wallpaper of the Users desktop.

Soon I will post a tutorial on it in Flex Notes site.

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I have written the tutorial on how to build a mp3 player in Apollo.
You can view it on Flex notes
http://flnotes.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/creating-a-mp3-player-in-apollo-and-flex-2/

Download the Source Files

ApolloJukeBox_sources.zip

ApolloJukeBox app.zip

Hoping to see exciting apps from you

Also you can download the PDF version
ApolloJukebox Tutorial .pdf

I have just created a simple mp3 app in Apollo.
Here is the screenshot

Download Music Tunes.air

I have written an article about Apollo application structure in flnotes blog
Please visit the following link to know more.

Can apollo build web apps without db access

Just like Flex class structure I have created a tree structure of Apollo AS classes and packages.
It will help in case you choose to use SDKs in stead of IDEs

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Lets go for some app building.

While visiting blogs I came across this one where Campbell experimented with the idea of showing images and videos in the web taken in through mobile phones.He used Flex for the frontend and .net and RoR for backend.But he  found it of no great use  as  YouTube  and  MySpace  started giving the same service. Check this URL for the complete coverage. So who gets the benefit ? App's name is VideMe.

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I googled about Apollo alpha 1 Instller and found its coming on the labs around March 16th.
Till then Mike's pocketguide will help us to get a good knowledge about this framework .
Visit the url to know more
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=304

http://blog.xsive.co.nz/archives/205

So the fun begins this weekend.

I have created the tree view of Flex class hierarchy in flash.The root class is Object and other classes extend it.Click on the folder to see its subclasses.