Last week working on an application which combines Google App Engine, Adobe AIR, and Flex. This was a fun experiment that turned into a pretty cool application. The application, named QuickFix, sends an image to Google App Engine which does an “I’m Feeling Lucky” transformation on the image and sends it back. Here’s a screenshot of it fixing one of the photos I took at the Java Posse Roundup this past winter: Continue reading »
Last week I spent a few hours with Dick Wall of the Java Posse working on an application which combines Google App Engine, Adobe AIR, and Flex. This was a fun experiment that turned into a pretty cool application. The application, named QuickFix, sends an image to Google App Engine which does an “I’m Feeling Lucky” transformation on the image and sends it back. Here’s a screenshot of it fixing one of the photos I took at the Java Posse Roundup this past winter: Continue reading »
Adobe AIR supports enterprise deployment. There; I’ve said it. We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this message out, so I wanted to be clear about this right up front.
Now, before anyone jumps all over me for this one, I’m also sure we could do a better job of supporting enterprise deployment. If you’ve deployed AIR in an enterprise setting and have thoughts on what we could do better, please send them our way. Continue reading »
This application was left on my Free Flash Applications page. It’s a Google 3D Map application hat uses Adobe AIR, Papervision3D and Flex technologies to render the 3D Google Map.
Spaz is another free Twitter client for desktop worth checking out. It is open-source, and because it runs using Adobe AIR you bet it’s cross-platformed. Spaz performs most of the functions a normal desktop Twitter client would (send/receive tweets, stream public tweets, etc) but extra customization support. It comes with 4 themes/skin to choose from, or you can even define your own using CSS.
Did I mention it’s also ads free? Download Spaz now.
Good news for those who read feeds via Google Reader. Here’s another option where you can read feeds with a standalone application on your desktop, without logging into Google Reader with browser. ReadAir is build with Adobe AIR, so you can be rest assured that it will run smoothly cross-platform, Linux, Mac or Windows.
The current ReadAir supports most functions of Google Reader but there’s still room for improvement before it really works like Google Reader on desktop. Getting keyboard shortcuts to be functioning is essential, display total number of un-read feeds on desktop icon is also cool. And these are all part of the developer’s to-do list, so you can be expecting them on any future update.
Overall, it’s still a cool app. FYI, there’s also a standalone Google Analytics built with Adobe AIR, if you are not aware of.
Multiple people have told me that a very limited amount of time went into grabbing this from the labs and presenting it at the conference (like measured in days – not even weeks). Combining that with Sun’s lousy track record with Java UI technologies, I quickly wrote off the release / platform. Continue reading »
I love Flex so much, I have actually been skeptical about Adobe AIR. Over the last year, I have had a hard time understanding why moving applications from the Web to the Desktop mattered (it just didn’t seem that interesting).
Then I had the chance to attend the Adobe Engage event two weeks ago,
where they launched Adobe AIR with its 1.0 release. With the launch, they demonstrated a number of applications built using the AIR platform. Continue reading »
