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

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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

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

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Flash Platform and Multi-Screen

AdobeFlash Platfor

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Flash Player and Adobe AIR Runtimes

Applications inside the browser

Running on

Windows/MacOS/Linux

Android/PlayBook

Flash® Player

Adobe® AIR®

Standalone Applications

Running on:

Windows/MacOS/Linux/

Android/iOS/PlayBook

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The Flash Platform

Adobe® Flash® Player

Adobe® Flex ® Adobe® Flash® Media Server

Family

Tools to Design and Develop Clients ServersFramework

Adobe® AIR®

Adobe® Flash® CS5 Professional

Adobe® Flash®

Catalyst™

Adobe® Flash® Builder™

Adobe® LiveCycle®

Data Services

Applications, Content and Video

Services

Adobe® Flash®

Platform Services

Integrating withthe Flash Platform

Creative Suite 5

ColdFusion Builder

“Panini”

“Hero” 2.6

10.2

“Burrito”

Adobe® LiveCycle®

Collaboration Service

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What is our proposal and why is it valuable?

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Native Mobile Application Development Model

NativeApp

NativeApp

NativeApp

NativeApp

Additional OS’s

A costly, inefficient development model

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Introducing a new mobile development paradigm

Additional OS’s

AIR

Flex Application

One Tool, One Language, One Codebase

Any Platform. Great performance.

Common codebase

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

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How do you build AIR Apps for Mobile Devices?

Adobe AIR 2.6 Flex 4.5

Flash Builder 4.5

LiveCycle

Data Services

LiveCycle Collaboration Service

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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

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

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Performance?

Performance wise we think we are there with the native

We continue our work on optimizing our runtimes and frameworks

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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/Android Market

StageWebView

Session Cache Support – Restore App State

Hardware Buttons Support

Local database (SQLite)

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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…

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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

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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)

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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.

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The Flash Platform

Adobe® Flash® Player

Adobe® Flex ® Adobe® Flash® Media Server

Family

Tools to Design and Develop Clients ServersFramework

Adobe® AIR®

Adobe® Flash® CS5 Professional

Adobe® Flash®

Catalyst™

Adobe® Flash® Builder™

Adobe® LiveCycle®

Data Services

Applications, Content and Video

Services

Adobe® Flash®

Platform Services

Integrating withthe Flash Platform

Creative Suite 5

ColdFusion Builder

“Panini”

“Hero” 2.6

10.2

“Burrito”

Adobe® LiveCycle®

Collaboration Service