AIR is very popular for creating twitter clients, Sönke Rohde just made it much easier to make AIR apps for twitter with an AS3 library for Twitter. This library is built on top of core oauth as3 library by iotashin.  Core OAuth as3 library is a standard OAuth library this can be used for your own OAuth backends or connecting to other OAuth services as well.

A very nice feature of this library, in addition to being coded cleanly and as3 style, is the ability to have the Twitter OAuth page render inside of Flash.

Instead of opening the Twitter authorization page in the browser the library also contains OAuthLoader which is a wrapper around HTMLLoader which enables to directly show the authorization page within an AIR window:

// use this in the requestTokenHandler instead of navigateToURL
var loader:OAuthLoader = new OAuthLoader();
loader.load(request);
loader.percentWidth = 100;
loader.percentHeight = 100;
var w:Window = new Window();
w.width = 800;
w.height = 400;
w.title = req.url;
w.addChild(loader);
w.open();

• Shannon Hicks core oauth as3 library
• High level AS3/Flex library for OAuth
• oauth-as3 Google Code page
• OAuth
• Twitter OAuth FAQ
• Twitter API Documentation
• Getting Started with OAuth

The YouTube Chromeless Player works with AS3/ActionScript 3.

The demo shows great examples of the player with just the window canvas (chromeless) from both javascript and inside of flash.

The project is hosted on Google Code [youtubechromelesswrapper-as3]

Looks like they maybe had a contribution for this, so do it where you can.

This is something we’ve been wanting to provide for a while, and the YouTube API team greatly appreciates the work of developer Matthew Richmond of The Chopping Block for making it happen. Thanks Matthew!

Links

• Demo
• Google Code [youtubechromelesswrapper-as3]
• Article about the library
• Download the source (get from google code recommended)
• Javascript Player Reference

Capabilities/API

Public Methods

player.loadVideoById(id:String, startSeconds:Number = 0):void

Loads and plays video based on specified id.

player.cueNewVideo(id:String, startSeconds:Number = 0):void

Loads but does not automatically play video based on specified id.

player.clearVideo():void

Clears currently cued/loaded video.

player.setSize(w:Number, h:Number):void

Sets the size of YouTubePlayer instance.

player.play():void

Plays the currently cued/loaded video.

player.pause():void

Pauses the currently cued/loaded video.

player.stop():void

Stops the currently cued/loaded video.

player.seekTo(seconds:Number):void

Seeks to specified time within the currently cued/loaded video.

player.getPlayerState():String

Returns the current state of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.getBytesLoaded():Number

Returns the value of current bytes loaded of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.getBytesTotal():Number

Returns the value of total bytes loaded of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.getCurrentTime():Number

Returns the current position in time of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.getDuration():Number

Returns the current duration of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.getStartBytes():Number

Returns the start bytes of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.setVolume(newVolume:Number):void

Sets the volume of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.getVolume():Number

Returns the current volume of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.mute():void

Stores the current volume and changes the volume of the currently cued/loaded video to 0.

player.unmute():void

Returns the volume of the currently cued/loaded video to the last stored value when muted.

player.getEmbedCode():String

Returns the current YouTube embed code of the currently cued/loaded video.

player.getVideoUrl():String

Returns the current YouTube video url of the currently cued/loaded video.

Events

YouTubeLoaderEvent.LOADED

Fired once the Chromeless Player has successfully completed loading and is ready to accept operations calls.

YouTubeLoaderEvent.STATE_CHANGE

Fired whenever the player’s state changes. The YouTubeLoader class translates the JavaScript API numbers to their related string values, the YouTubeLoaderEvent class stores the current event in a variable called state. Possible values are unstarted, ended, playing, paused, buffering, video cued. When the SWF is first loaded, it will broadcast an unstarted event. When the video is cued and ready to play, it will broadcast a video cued event.

YouTubeLoaderEvent.IO_ERROR

Fired when an error in the player occurs. There are two error codes possible: 100 is broadcasted when the video requested is not found. This occurs when a video has been removed (for any reason), or it has been marked as private. 101 is broadcasted when the video requested does not allow playback in the embedded players.