SMS Texting with Flex and Air

By Adrian Pomilio:

The solution is simple, Ribbit!. There is an api available at Ribbit.com that allows for you to integrate texting as well as voip features with Flex and Flash. Below is a quick tutorial on how to create a simple Air texting application.
EXPLANATION

Step 1 – Visit www.ribbit.com and sign up for a developers key and download the Flex SDK.
Step 2 – Create an Air Project in Flex Builder
Step 3 – Unzip the Ribbit Flex SDK and copy the Ribbit API swc to your projects lib directory.
Step 4 – Add a namespace to the WindowedApplication tag as follows:
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” layout=”vertical”
xmlns:ribbit=”com.ribbit.api.*” creationComplete=”init()”>
Step 5 – Add the following component to your MXML <ribbit:RibbitServices id=”request” />  This will allow us to refer to the Ribbit Services via the name ‘request.’
Step 6 – Add the following import statments to your <mx:Script> block…

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