I was very happy this year to be so heavily involved in MAX sessions. The attendance at the conference and those sessions was amazing. With a few exceptions, I heard a lot of positive remarks about presenters and their content. I’m already looking forward to next year in San Francisco, CA. In the meantime, here’s a recap of the sessions, and their related content.
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A big congratulations to Alexey Gavrilov over at Metalink, who published his first article on DevX. He does a great job of covering Silverlight, AIR and JavaFX as broadly and as fairly as possible. My only complaint is that he chose Flex as the basis for his AIR application. AIR supports both Flash/Flex and HTML workflow’s, and to that end, I’ve stepped up to provide the missing HTML version of the stopwatch example application used in his article.
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Par for the course this year, Adobe MAX 2007 has some pre-event sessions, which includes a number of day-long hands-on sessions. For a while there was only one session for AIR, and that was for the Flex developer. After talking with Ted Patrick and other MAX organizers, I was able to arrange a similar session, but for the HTML and JavaScript developers!
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The second leg of the on AIR Bus Tour came to a conclusion last week in Boston, MA. Once again, we were blown away by the numbers of HTML/JavaScript developers in attendance (an average of 50% of the audience at each event). Imagine my surprise then, when I found out that there has been an astoundingly low number of HTML/JavaScript entries for the AIR Developer Derby!
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The second leg of three for the on AIR Bus Tour is drawing to a close. The crew is in Philadelphia, PA now, with Boston to go at the end of the week. During this leg of the tour I’ve been showing off some new samples, the most popular of which seems to b applying Flash bitmap filters to HTML elements in AIR. In this walkthrough, I’ll cover some of the techniques I use to blur the line between Flash and HTML.
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You may not have known this, but it was completely possible to author an AIR application with the “Apollo Alpha” using only your favorite HTML editor. No Flash and no Flex required; just you and your HTML. This continues to be the case with the AIR Beta, which improves integration and offers more features. Hot off the presses, the “AIR Pocket Guide for JavaScript Developers” aims to accelerate your success in getting started with this workflow.
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Among the early AIR (then Apollo) applications was MapSnap, which is developed and maintained by Christian Cantrell. MapSnap eventually became MapCache with the launch of Adobe AIR. MapCache is developed using Flex, and demonstrates local file IO, clipboard access and native drag and drop using PNG-encoded map images. Given that Yahoo! Maps offers a great API for the JavaScript developer, I decided to port this application over to HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
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I got an email earlier this week that pointed to David Cann’s iPhone interface done in JavaScript. I hadn’t seen it before, and I don’t know how long it has been around, but I thought it was pretty slick. Inspired by the possibilities, I decided to take the lead on moving into an AIR application. We always say that HTML applications are first-class citizens on AIR, but I’ve never really tried it with anyone else’s code but my own. Here was the chance to eat our own dog food, and see just how far we’ve come. How are we doing? Read on!
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By now you’ve heard that Adobe has launched the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly Apollo. You probably heard about Flex 3, too. If you’re an HTML developer however, there are a few announcements that may have gotten past you. HTML/CSS/JS is a first-class citizen for developing AIR applications, and to that end there’s a some new developments that assist in that workflow. There’s also some updates and a new addition to the HTML-based sample applications.
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