I have a theory. The majority of people who use enterprise software today use old school Client / Server apps. We’ve been trying to move these apps to the web for more than ten years. The ease of deployment of web apps is a clear motivator. Yet the client capabilities of the plain old web [...]
Category Archives: Mobile
Building Client / Cloud Apps with Flash Builder for Force.com
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Cloud, Flex, Salesforce.com 20 Comments
Developing Mobile Flash / Flex – Scaling and Zooming
Mobile development with Flash and Flex is a new frontier, full of new adventures and discoveries. Recently I discovered something that might be useful to you. By default the mobile web browser on my Android 2.2 device scales a web page to make more room to display pages typically built for a desktop profile. Here [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex 2 Comments
Flash Platform and Salesforce.com Webinar and Mobile App
Client + Cloud technologies have been quickly evolving and maturing. The combination of Flex and Salesforce.com continue to lead the way for next generation Client + Cloud applications. Recently I did a Webinar on The Flash Platform and Salesforce.com with Dave Carroll from Salesforce. If you missed it you can watch the recording to see [...]
Also posted in Flex, Salesforce.com 3 Comments
Flex on Android in Flash Player and AIR
This week at the Google I/O conference Adobe announced that a Flash Player 10.1 beta and an Adobe AIR prerelease are now available for Android devices. This is really exciting news for those of us building apps on the Flash Platform because now we can begin building apps in Flex for these mobile devices (and [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flex 29 Comments
Flex Performance on Mobile Devices
This past weekend I spent an hour optimizing the Flex 4 scrolling demo that I posted last week. The original demo was intended to show how to hook up touch events to the Flex 4 List / DataGroup controls. This new version adds some optimizations for the touch event handling and adds the kinetic flick [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex 38 Comments
Flex 4 List Scrolling on Android with Flash Player 10.1
UPDATE 1: The first version of this demo was intended to show how to hook up touch events to the Flex 4 List / DataGroup controls. I’ve posted a new version that adds some optimizations for the touch event handling and adds the kinetic flick behavior. One of the challenges of running existing web content [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex 27 Comments
Flex Apps on Mobile Devices
This week at Mobile World Congress Adobe has been showing off Flash Player 10.1 on a variety of mobile devices. Last week I received Google’s Nexus One device with an early version of Flash Player 10.1 on it. Here is a video I shot today showing how Flex applications can run on mobile devices with [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex 5 Comments
Rich-Client Misconceptions & Adobe’s Open Screen Project
Artima recently posted two interviews with me which relate to Flex. First is an interview about Adobe’s Open Screen Project. The second is called Rich-Client Misconceptions. Also Bruce Eckel recently posted a very interesting article on Artima called “Concurrency with Python, Twisted, and Flex“. Let me know what you think about those.
The Open Web: Now Sexier and Smaller
In the past Open Web proponents have criticized Flash and Flex because the SWF specification – while being published and publicly available – limited what readers could do with the specification. More specifically the agreement to view the specification required that readers not build programs that would run SWF files. The intentions behind this were [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Open Web 4 Comments
