Mobile Development With Flash Platform

Mobile Development & The Flash Platform
Mihai Corlan | WW Developer Evangelist | http://corlan.org

About Me
Adobe World Wide Developer Evangelist (since 2008)
Flash Builder Engineer 2006-2008
Web Developer 98’ - 2006
Blog: http://corlan.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mcorlan
Email: mihai.corlan@adobe.com
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Examples of Mobile Applications created using our tools

Open Screen Project http://www.openscreenproject.org

Flash Platform and Multi-Screen
Adobe
Flash
Platform

Flash Player and Adobe AIR Runtimes
Applications inside the browser
Running on
Windows/MacOS/Linux
Android/PlayBook
Flash® Player
Standalone Applications
Running on:
Windows/MacOS/Linux/
Android/iOS/PlayBook
Adobe® AIR®

The Flash Platform
Applications, Content and Video
Tools to Design and Develop
Clients
Servers
Framework
Services
Adobe® Flash® Builder™
Adobe® Flash® Media Server Family
Adobe® Flash® CS5 Professional
Adobe® Flex ®
Adobe® Flash® Platform Services
Adobe® AIR®
“Burrito”
“Hero”
2.6
Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™
Adobe® LiveCycle®
Data Services
Adobe® LiveCycle® Collaboration Service
Adobe® Flash® Player
“Panini”
10.2
Integrating withthe Flash Platform
ColdFusion Builder
Creative Suite 5

What is our proposal and why is it valuable?

Native Mobile Application Development Model
A costly, inefficient development model
Native
App
Native
App
Native
App
Native
App
Additional
OS’s

Introducing a new mobile development paradigm
One Tool, One Language, One Codebase
Flex Application
Common codebase
AIR
Additional
OS’s
Any Platform. Great performance.

How do you build mobile apps with Adobe’s Flash Platform?

How do you build AIR Apps for Mobile Devices?
Flex 4.5
Adobe AIR 2.6
LiveCycle
Data Services
LiveCycle Collaboration Service
Flash Builder 4.5

Where we are today
Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 was launched this month
Support for:
ActionScript mobile projects for Android, iOS, and PlayBook
Flex mobile projects for Android
Flex and ActionScript projects for desktop
In June 2011 we will release and update that enables Flex framework for
iOS
PlayBook

Are there any limitations when using the Flash Platformfor mobile apps?

Performance?
Performance wise we think we are there with the native
We continue our work on optimizing our runtimes and frameworks

Integration with devices capabilities / existing apps?
Today AIR on mobile offers:
Camera (Camera Rol) and Microphone access
Accelerometer
GPS
Multitouch/Gestures
Screen Orientation / Fullscreen
Phone/SMS/Email/Browser/AndroidMarket
StageWebView
Session Cache Support –RestoreApp State
Hardware Buttons Support
Local database (SQLite)

Integration with devices capabilities / existing apps?
This year we will add support for native extensions
Developers will be able to use the platform native SDK to create extensions that can be used by AIR apps
This means:
Support for notifications
Using Intents on Android – other applications
Using the contact lists
And so on…

Flex Framework Support for Mobile
Support for Screen Metaphor
Pushing new screens
Removing the current screen
Integration with the hardware buttons on Android
Support for device orientation changes
UI components optimized for mobile
Saving (persisting) and restoring application state

Flash Builder Support for Mobile Development
Mobile Projects
Design view for mobile
Running and debugging the mobile apps on the simulator or the device
Support for packaging the native files (APK, BAR, IPA)

Thank You!
Question & Answers
Join my session 14:30PM for a handson on building mobile apps.
I will upload the slides to my blog today.
http://corlan.org
http://twitter.com/mcorlan
mcorlan@adobe.com

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The Flash Platform
Applications, Content and Video
Tools to Design and Develop
Clients
Servers
Framework
Services
Adobe® Flash® Builder™
Adobe® Flash® Media Server Family
Adobe® Flash® CS5 Professional
Adobe® Flex ®
Adobe® Flash® Platform Services
Adobe® AIR®
“Burrito”
“Hero”
2.6
Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™
Adobe® LiveCycle®
Data Services
Adobe® LiveCycle® Collaboration Service
Adobe® Flash® Player
“Panini”
10.2
Integrating withthe Flash Platform
ColdFusion Builder
Creative Suite 5

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Mobile Development With Flash Platform

by Mihai Corlan on May 20, 2011

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