Wow! This morning was very news worthy!
First there was the announcements regarding Flash CS5.
The big thing here was the new support for native iPhone Apps.
Apparently one can, with the Flash Professional CS5, write AS3 code that compiles as native iPhone application.
They announced it at MAX a few hours ago thru this entertaining video:
Nice!
To me there's other cool stuff in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 that is really interesting, like the xml based FLAs and the Text Layout Framework.
Mike Chambers here has a post that gets into more details of the iPhone support part.
Adobe has also released a few applications that you can try on your iPhone right away! I feel that it's a good idea to read thru the Developer FAQs and Aditya Bansod's article here. I did find the LLVM pretty interesting. There's a paper and a presentation to check out on llvm.org. For an iPhone a developer can actually use RTMP, remote shared objects and AMF APIs of the flash player. Developers will also have access to the file system and SQLite APIs of AIR 2.0. I am sure we will find out eventually that some stuff is not available, but, what the heck! There will be workarounds...hehe
The idea of a native iPhone Flash Player is still not around...I see places where they say "its on the cards...", but, there is no mention of a date. The Flash Player 10.1 is going to be available soon though! Again it was announced at Adobe MAX today. Check out Kevin Lynch introducing 10.1 in this video:
This kinda excites me more than the iPhone support. Flash Player 10.1 on Android, Net Books and even on set-top boxes for television providing seamless experience is an awesome awesome wow! More reach, more support for my products and services now. :)
Adobe's even working on Slider - a mobile optimized port of the Flex 4 codebase.
Along with all of this Adobe also announced a host of other betas available! Check out the list below:
- The Flex 4 SDK Beta 2 release
- The Flash Builder 4 Beta 2 release
- The Flash Catalyst Beta 2 release
- and then there's also the Adobe ColdFusion Builder beta 2 release
- and the Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta release
I also found two very interesting project on Adobe labs.
The first is called workflowlab. A tool (AIR) that allows one to create and share workflows and best practices. Project Managers, Designers and developers can collaborate and contribute to a project in a nicer way with this. The big part is that they used the Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst to create this utility!
Finally, the second one is about something that is really close to my heart too. Adobe Story is an application for collaborative script development. I tried a few scenes of a sample movie script with it. Works really well! The code hints like auto-correct/completion features are really neat! What even nicer is that it supports export to a lot of formats including MS Word, Final Draft (Word and FD are my preferred screen-writing applications) and also to PDF, CSV, XML and plain text! (There's probably an AIR application available too, but, I have not tried that as yet). The Story beta was out on Sept 10, so I am a little late (and a little out of place) in talking about it here, but, with all the great up coming stuff, I wanted to blog all of it together.
Really cool stuff happening around. Lots to look out for.
:)
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