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.

Zend framework with support for Action Message Format (AMF) is now bundled with Adobe Flash Builder 4. PHP developers using Zend AMF get the benefit of an open, binary, high-speed format for rapid client-server data exchange for their applications built with Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4. Zend AMF also helps ensure scalability of rich Internet applications, especially as data load increases, while simultaneously reducing development time.

Zend Studio 7 and Adobe Flash Builder 4 Provide an Integrated Development Environment for building the Client and Server sides of Rich Internet Applications. Both IDEs are based on Eclipse version 3.5, providing PHP developers with one Integrated Development Environment for developing and debugging both the front-end and the back-end of PHP and Flex-based applications.

Read more at Zend website:

http://www.zend.com/en/company/news/press/zend-integrates-with-adobe-flash-builder-for-rapid-development-of-rich-internet-applications-based-on-adobe-flash-platform-and-php

We @ Rightway are mastering the use of new Flash Builder by Adobe for developing next generation RIAs. Flash Builder can easily add color and life to your web applications by introducing dynamic user features, slick transitions, and eye-catching animations.

Some New Features in Flash Builder we have learn are:

- New Text Controls that use Flash Player Text Layout Framework.
- Importing and Exporting Flash Catalyst Files.
- Creating Flash Components, But it requires Flash Cs4.
- Extend the properties of File Reference Class.
- Spark Component Model & Game-Changing Skinning Techniques.
- Flash Builder Includes New Transform Effects to manipulate 3d attributes of an Object’s Transform Matrix. For Example: Move 3d, Rotate 3d, Scale 3d.
- Improvement in View States Syntax.
- New CSS and Skinning Enhancements.
- Compatibility with FXG Support to Develop Animations and Graphics.

We have explored some of the irresistible features provided by Flash Builder. Some of the sample works we have done are:

- Insert Inline Images in Text Area/Rich Text Editor Components.
- Preview and Save Images/Text Files from Client Side without Server Side Coding.
- Developed View States with Transitions/Animations by using New Syntax.
- Developed Drawing API Shapes by Using FXG 1.0 (MXML’s Shape Drawing).
- Importing and Exporting Flash Catalyst Files from Flash Builder.
- Worked on Data Services to Integrate Back – End From Flash Builder to PHP, JAVA, and ColdFusion.

Try the sample here:
http://rightwayservices.org/flex/FlashBuilder/SaveImage/SaveImage.html

You can download the source by right clicking on sample to view source and download.

We are working on un-covering other features of Flash Builder and will be continuously posting the updates. So, keep watching the place!