Nov 10, 2011

Should I use Flex FlashBuilder to build iOS apps

So Adobe is no longer supporting a mobile version of the FlashPlayer.  Does this bother me?  No not really websites I work on are pure HTML and there is really nothing I need Flash ( in the browser for ) at the current time especially on mobile devices.  However I do have an iPhone and I did get flash running on the iPhone but that was a "just because case".

So now that Adobe are no longer maintain a Mobile Flash player should i still build Apps for iOS and Android using FlashBuilder?  Well yes why wouldn't I.

I have a need to build a smallish application that is a perfect candidate for FlashBuilder.  I'm familiar with Flex and need to get the app to market pretty rapidly I still see this as the best option.

A few people I have spoken to are on the same wave length as me.  Building AIR and Mobile app with FlashBuilder is really and great option specially when it take so much longer to build "natively".  Sure if I were building a game but I'm not.

In any case I'd like to hear some feed back as to weather people are still going along the FlashBuilder -> iOS path.


Posted by Paul Kukiel at 6:04 AM

5 comments:

  1. You may want to check paragraph three. You may mean familiar.
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  3. Adobe abandoning Flash Player for TVs as well

    http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/10/adobe-abandoning-flash-player-for-tvs-as-well/

    Adobe will kill Flash platform. They acquired PhoneGap to build app from html5, so Flex will be dead soon, maybe within 2 years.

    look what Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen said one and half year ago about the success of Flash as a multi devices design/develop tool which gets its success from consumers themselves because they want it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93NX9cpgJ4I

    why all these words are vaporized now?

    Adobe have betrayed all Flash/Flex developers - who spent a lot of resources and time to learn and develop in AS3/MXML- in this announcement.
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    1. Don't agree,
      Yes, HTML5 will become a rich web development language and well adopted, Yes Flash maybe consuming more resources, but Steve job wanted to create an Apple world for Apple people only.

      The name Adobe choose for it's development tools as Flash platform is not very well choosen. Flex builder is better than Flash builder, because it can do much more than building flash applications.

      I have done some investigation myself and I believe they (Adobe) provides an open approach as well as an all in one multi platform IDE (Flashbuider) to build for air, mobile and integrate even with web development. All their tools are highly integrated with one another and speedup development. So Flash itself can be doubted, but not the tools itself. I don't believe Flex will be dead, it's open source. They should rename all non flash related tools with the name flash in it to something new.

      Keywords for development:
      -Open system;
      -Highly integrated with a broad range of tool (creative, design, building);
      -Multi-platform creation, generation and deployment (I like more native extensions wrapped by Adobe);
      -Vendor independent view (felling free will bring new possibilities).
      -easy and rapid development from idea, design, building and testing;

      That is the way forward. Think of the fact that you want an exact same app being build for you specific product on Anriod, iOS and Blackberry. Then the builder of these apps tell you, we have to build them separate and it cost us three times the hours to build which is 3 times the money you would like to spend, not taken into account even the maintenance. Would like to spend this almost three times for the same functionality, No?


      Eric Boerboom 16-2-2012
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  4. I completely agree, the only reason that I enjoy Flash Player for mobile devices is because it allows me to see content on sites that don't have a mobile version. That won't change because there is still a Flash Player, there just won't be any new ones.

    Wrote a similar article yesterday here: http://www.cultcreative.com/blog/11/09/2011/adobe-discontinues-mobile-player/ .

    I disagree with the comment "Adobe will kill Flash platform. They acquired PhoneGap to build app from html5, so Flex will be dead soon, maybe within 2 years." because Adobe has made some great advancements with the desktop version of the player and they continue to do so for both 3d and video integration with hardware acceleration.
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