Applications
To give you an impression of what you can achieve with Jangaroo, here is a list of some publicly available Jangaroo demos and applications.
An example of how to use Jangaroo to run a Flash demo
without a Flash plugin.
The AS3 source code is compiled to JavaScript with the Jangaroo AS3 to JS compiler, using the Jangaroo Flash API re-implementation which implements a large subset of the Flash API, drawing into a HTML5 canvas. With only a few lines of JavaScript, that code is loaded and run in any moderately modern browser (i.e. not IE < 9).
If your browser has a Flash plugin, you can see the original demo running in a Flash player at the right side. Don't they look like twins?
- Run the demo (with Internet Explorer, you need version 9).
- View the source on github.
The Open Source framework
flixel is great for building 2D Flash games and
comes with several demo games. We grabbed the source and recompiled it with
the Jangaroo compiler, again using the Jangaroo Flash re-implementation. Then,
we cross-compiled three different flixel games: The demos
Flx Invaders and
FlxTeroids as well
as the complete game
MODE, and the tutorial
platformer Jumper,
including visual effects and sound.
This means the games now run as HTML5 applications in every modern browser,
without a Flash plugin! Safari mobile (iPhone, iPad, iPod) works too, but very
slowly, and so far, the games can only be controlled by keys, so you cannot
actually play.
- Run the games (with Internet Explorer, you need version 9) by clicking on the screen shots.
- View the source on github: Jangaroo flixel, Jangaroo Flx-Invaders, Jangaroo FlxTeroids, Jangaroo MODE, Jangaroo Jumper.
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Note: The source code has only been slightly adapted from Adam Atomic's original implementation for a few workarounds.
The original Box2DFlash framework and example code recompiled
with the Jangaroo AS3 to JS compiler, using a
Jangaroo Flash API re-implementation which
implements Flash drawing using a HTML5 canvas.
This means it runs in every modern browser (for Microsoft Internet Explorer, you need version 9). Safari mobile (iPhone, iPad, iPod) works also, but the demos do not yet support touch events, so only the falling 'Ragdolls' can be viewed.
- Run the demo (with Internet Explorer, you need version 9).
- View the source on github.
[
](http://blog.iainlobb.com/2011/02/bunnymark-compiled-from-actionscript-
to.html)The Flash game benchmarks
BunnyMark and
BunnyLandMark
compare different rendering strategies. After a few minor
fixes in jooflash and creating a Maven POM, the project could be compiled and
built with Jangaroo, resulting in a HTML5 version of the benchmark. Read more about
BunnyMark and Jangaroo in Iain Lobb's Blog.
You find all links to running demos and the source code there.
Definitely the largest Jangaroo
application outside CoreMedia is the free Web game Jangaron, a 3D remake of
the Tron Lightcycle Game. The game is completely written in Jangaroo, besides
one ActionScript class that allows access to the Flash Sound object from
Jangaroo (in the experimental version, it even uses HTML5 Audio). As all
Jangaroo applications, it runs in all major browsers, even in older IE
versions.
- Read more about Jangaron in its blog.
- Play the game (we recommend the latest stable version or the experimental version, which always uses the latest Jangaroo version).
