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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

All you need to do is, download ‘Ensemble Tofino’ plug-in from tinyurl.com/yb8y5ow and installing downloaded plug-in.

Source: For more details on  how VS can be used to build Flash based internet applications, please visit the article http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/Developer/2010/110010801.asp

We have used the latest technologies: CakePHP/Adobe Flex/Adobe AIR/iPhone

Keep watching for the release of the application online.

The major new capabilities to be introduced are:
-    Native process API
-    Support for detecting mass storage devices
-    Improved support for accessibility
-    Open document API
-    Improved performance
-    Local microphone access API
-    Multi-touch & gesture support
-    Faster, more powerful WebKit
-    Improved socket support

Adobe expecting AIR 2.0 Beta would be launched till end of this year and final version would be launched in first half of next year.

Source – http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2009/10/previewing_adobe_air_2_at_adob.html