Flashcomguru.com: Apollo Video Chat

Posted At : March 20, 2007 9:34 PM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: Adobe AIR

Here's a video chat app (uses FMS) that I ported to Apollo. It's a in essence a Flex application that uses none of Apollo's functionality but merely wraps the my Flex app that's online here into an .air installer. The Apollo client connects to the same server as the browser based app which is kinda cool.

Here's the Apollo runtime which you need to run my app (Win or Mac).

Here's the Apollo installer for my app.

What's cool to note is that I managed to port what's essentially a browser app onto the desktop in something like 30 mins. The code changes were almost non-existend.
You *will* get a warning with this installer that the app may access your file system (as any executable may do). However this app does not.
To uninstall you can run the installer again and then choose uninstall or remove it via the normal means (add/remove programs if you're on Win). Not tested on Mac but with a bit of luck it'll run there too I think ;-)

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Nice Writeup on Apollo at The Register (March 31, 2007)
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Worked for me on Macbook Pro. Great work. -b

# Posted By Bryan Wills | 3/22/07 4:29 PM

WAY COOL! I think that your app is amazing.

Nice work.

# Posted By marty | 3/22/07 5:31 PM

thanks :-)

# Posted By Stefan | 3/22/07 7:18 PM

I know that you don't want to share this particular flex app with the world, but please consider doing a quick tut using fms, apollo, and a simple app. It would be really insightful and helpful :) I've come close to making something work, but not close enough...:(

# Posted By marty | 3/23/07 4:52 AM

oh yeah I'll definitely consider that. Check out my Flex audio chat, it's very similar to the video one. To turn this into an Apollo app is really easy. Doing a tutorial on this is just hindered my time constraints right now...

# Posted By Stefan | 3/23/07 8:25 AM

Dang...I should have thought of that.

Will try soon :)

# Posted By Marty | 3/24/07 5:26 PM

Looks great, i've been wanting to try Apollo for a while now.

# Posted By Niklas Bivald | 3/25/07 5:22 PM

I guess Apollo will be the start of branded video chat apps deployed to the desktop.

Bye bye Yahoo Messenger, hello Match.com IM. :)

# Posted By Naicu Octavian | 3/26/07 12:13 PM

Getting error msg, AIR version is outdatet...

# Posted By Tom | 12/28/07 8:35 PM

yes this is now outdated, this post is quite old now and I have not updated the app for the latest AIR release (I may update it once AIR is out of beta)

# Posted By Stefan | 12/30/07 2:27 PM

very nice application
is it easy to change the
FMS server address ?

# Posted By jean-michel | 3/26/08 2:16 PM

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