On November 14th 2011, Nidhi (Director – Engineering) conducted a workshop on Mobile Apps Development over Adobe AIR platform at CIIE IIM, Ahmedabad. The workshop involved a complete overview of Adobe AIR as upcoming mobile apps development platform, reasons behind the quick acceptance by developer community for AIR, future of Adobe AIR as mobile apps development platform etc.

The workshop also covered an overview of Adobe Flash Platform (Flex, AIR, Flash), Flash Builder IDE and advantages of choosing Adobe AIR for mobile apps development. The workshop involves developing a simple mobile app using Flash Builder. It also covered packaging apps for Apple iOS, Google Android and BalckBerry Tables OS devices.

The workshop was attended by 30+ participants and received very good feedback from all of the participants.

Rightway is all excited about exhibiting in Adobe Max 2011 to be held from October 1-5 at LA, CA. Preparations are going on at the fast pace. Everyone is buzzing with enthusiasm and looking forward to the huge response from the show. I can see our team working tirelessly to get the preparations done on-time. The team has left no stone unturned and want best of everything as we are exhibiting our products (Design’n’Buy and Maitredee360) as well as our RIA development services for the first time at such a mega event.

We will also be visiting various locations in USA during this visit. We are meeting up with many of our existing clients and partners as well as prospective clients looking for a business tie-up with us. We find this as good opportunity for us to know more about our clients’ business and work and understand their outsourcing requirements and expectations better. We are receiving more and more responses from industry people looking to meet us and we look forward to meeting them.

So, come, meet us at our booth and feel the true spirit of Rightway.

Recently we have launched a cross-platform mobile app for one of our client build over Adobe Flash platform using latest Flash Builder 4.5.1. The application supports all Android based devices as well as iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4.

Our client is having an existing native iPhone app and wanted to develop the similar app for Android based devices. We chose Flash platform for developing this app rather than building the Android app using Android SDK. The reason being that, by building it over Flash platform, we can manage app for both the platforms using a single code base and with the help of a single developer. And hence will be relived from maintaining 2 different code bases and development platforms. Also, any further upgrades or modification can be done easily once and for all.

The app has been developed and delivered successfully for both the platform and is available for end users on respective market places.

Gone are the days when enterprise users were made to use complex & boring user interfaces for data entry, data analysis, decision making and information sharing. Now RIAs has initiated strong momentum for enterprises to shift from system centric applications to user centric applications.

Earlier enterprises had to choose between using Web applications with form based page driven user interface and desktop applications, which are complex and difficult to install. Think of the situation when enterprise users were forced to work on boring form based UIs for day long and making important decisions based on datasets represented with huge tables having thousand of rows. No one can doubt the misinterpretations of data and chances of errors in decisions making.

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is a solution to all issues for enterprise users. RIAs combine the strengths of both web and desktop applications adding values rather than complications. RIAs enable enterprise users to access important information & data represented using interactive and easily accessible dashboards, which promote better decision making across the organization. Task oriented work-flows increase productivity with increase in employee collaboration and communication. Nowadays 8 out of the top 10 companies in finance, health-care, and consumer electronics industries use RIAs for developing their business applications.

Sensing the increasing demand for RIAs, Adobe is offering a complete development platform Adobe Flash Platform for creation and distribution of high-impact, rich web and desktop and mobile applications. Kudos for team Adobe!

To know about RWS capabilities and services for developing RIAs based on Adobe Flash Platform please visit -> http://www.rightwaysolution.com

With the increasing popularity of various communication devices, now it’s possible with Adobe AIR writing single applications that will reach most other next-generation devices and support large range of screen sizes. Adobe AIR has made it feasible to write a single application that automatically adapts to any screen size and any resolution, and runs just about everywhere e.g. OS X, Windows 7, Ubuntu, an iPhone, an iPad, a Motorola Droid, and in the browser.

Please check a tutorial on how to write a multiscreen application with Adobe AIR at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/writing_multiscreen_air_apps.html

We have been implementing the flex applications based on Cairngorm MVC architecture for long. With an increasing buzz about PureMVC our development team decided to explore this framework and I would say we are fascinated by its power to create modular and scalable applications.

Originally implemented in ActionScript 3 language, PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the classic Model-View-Controller design pattern. Initially introduced for use with Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR, PureMVC is now being ported to all major development platforms. It comes in two flavors; Standard and MultiCore. Standard version is simple implementation of the MVC concept while MultiCore version allows multiple PureMVC applications to run within the same virtual machine supporting modular programming.

It offers complete separation of UI controls from model and controller via Mediator pattern. Thus making it easier to re-use code for different UIs. It also makes it easier for multiple developers to work on the same project due to flexible model and controller layer. For large scale applications where response time is crucial, the Multicore version provides support for loading separate Modules within same application at runtime thus reducing the memory consumption at startup.

We can say that it might be a good alternative over Cairngorm for developing large scale applications. It rightly confirms to the title of the best Flex application framework.

We are building more Flex applications based on the framework to understand its benefits over other available frameworks and I hope we will end up in having two very strong framework options (Cairngorm and PureMVC) to choose from for developing Flex applications.