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.

Last two days has been really busy for Rightway Solution at Adobe Max Expo 2011. We are exhibiting our Web, AIR & Mobile apps development work over Adobe Flash Platform as well as our product “Design’n’Buy” and Matiredee360. People showed keen interest in our services and products and liked the work we do on Adobe Flash Platform. It was fun & enjoyable experience talking to the designers, developers, business decision makers and industry experts over their experience & expectations from Adobe platform.

Our booth attracted more than 150 visitors and we are really glad to have met all and talk business with them. We are having a great time at our booth there. Here are some of the snaps we took at the Expo:

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.

Adobe is currently building new mobile development capabilities into the Flex framework. The next version of Flex, codenamed “Hero”, will enable developers to create application experiences that translate well across platforms, and make it easy to build applications that work well on a wide variety of mobile devices. “Hero” will augment a number of existing Flex components with mobile and touch-optimized skins and functionality, and will also add new components that support mobile-specific UI patterns.

Previously, Adobe had investigated splitting off mobile development into a new branch of the Flex framework code-named “Slider”. However, the rapid increases in performance on smartphone-class devices over the past year, combined with the highly optimized performance of Adobe runtimes on these devices, now make it feasible to support mobile use cases directly with the core Flex framework.

A preview version of “Hero” is expected to be available later in 2010.

For more information, please visit: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/mobile/

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.