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:

It was a grand opening for Adobe Max.

Adobe Max kicked off with an impressive keynote by Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. Kevin announced the new developments for Adobe creative community, the major ones being Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Touch Apps and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition.

With Adobe Creative Cloud, you can stay connected to your creative files anywhere with ability to collaborate with each other. Adobe Touch apps would really enable creatives to work anywhere with their tablets and utilize hosted cloud-based services to share files, view them across devices or transfer work into Adobe Creative Suite software. While Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition is an ideal fit for freelance designers, small businesses and design firms who need to publish content created with InDesign to the Apple iPad without having to write a single line of code.

Then started the most awaited series of sessions, labs, table talks and unconferences on all topics of latest interests. A huge gathering of participants flocked the community pavilion and took active interest in the happenings on the ground. A sneak peek into the future of Adobe platform took everyone by surprise and built grand hopes to get more powerful tools and technologies for enhanced design & development experience.

Still more to come at Adobe Max and we are delighted to be a part of such mega event.

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.

Let me first ask you,

Have you got bored with using your web application having traditional user interface with lifeless tables & forms?

Are you looking for revamping your legacy web application to give it a new face where people enjoy interactivity & get engaged instantly?

Want to convert your COBOL or FoxPro legacy code to a new RIA technology?

If yes, I have an answer for you:

With the introduction of Rich Internet Applications, it has become easy to break the barriers of lifeless & boring HTML web pages and create a new generation of expressive, high performance & engaging applications. Adobe Flex is one of the emerging technologies for creating RIAs. It offers state transitions, effects, rich skinning and visual component states in delivering immersive end user experience.

Let me put a very real life experience to demonstrate my point: Let’s imagine that you want to purchase a new product from a traditional online e-commerce store. You would first like to browse through the catalogue then see the details for product of your choice, add it to your cart and finally place the order. You have to carry out each of this task step-by-step i.e. the web application require users to either send data to the server or send a new request to the server to obtain more information. This interruption leads to a significant wait and, thus, causes a significant and seemingly unnecessary break in a task flow. Also, the traditional representation of information in form of tables, forms, lists makes surfing the website uninteresting after a while.

Now, you can breathe a new life into your legacy application by providing sophisticated data visualization features, use of various media including text, graphics, animation, video, and sound and seamless communication between client & server without page refresh i.e. without any arbitrary interruption of a user’s task.  So now when you surf an e-commerce store, you can browse products, see the product details and update your cart all at once without being interrupted. And that gives you a real-time shopping experience.

You can even choose to bundle your legacy back-end with updated front-end to extend the value of your legacy system without disrupting your data centre.

So, let’s leverage the power Flex for transform the face of legacy applications and convert them into new generation high performance & expressive application. The main target applications are: Rich Media Applications, Data Visualizations, and Business Applications.