Using MobileApplication to share data with first view

[Raymond Camden]

So when using views in a Flex Hero mobile application, you can very
easily load a view and pass data along to the next view. I love that.
I'm trying to do the same but via the top level component. What I mean
is - my root MobileApplication has an initialize method. I want to
create a variable in there and when my first view is automatically
loaded for me, I want to pass the data to it.

I guess if I removed firstView I could simply load the view myself?

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[Raymond Camden]

Hmpth, this doesn't quite work from the mobile app root;

navigator.pushView(views.TaskRunHome);

Gives me a null ref error in SlideViewTranslation.

[Raymond Camden]

Ok, I think I got it.

Apparently you can specify both a first view and the _data_ for the
first view. So I returned this to my mobileApplication tag:

firstView="views.TaskRunHome"

Then in my init function, I did this:

var ob:Object = new Object();
ob.dbfile = dbfile;
navigator.firstViewData = ob;

I'm not saying this is best practice - just what worked. ;) My init
function root ran and did it's crap, and I was then able to pass this
on to the first view.

[Brian Rinaldi]

This is great. Thanks Ray. You should consider posting this as a cookbook item. The mobile cookbooks are kinda sparse at the moment and something like this would be a very useful item. (I added similar ones over the past couple days)

Brian Rinaldi
blog - http://remotesynthesis.com
Twitter - http://twitter.com/remotesynth

[Raymond Camden]

Will do.