I've got a few apps to show off, but in all honesty -- I've been doing
mostly mobile work lately.  Here is one of the first Flex 4.8.0 apps I
published...   :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.org.pointi.androidApp
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pointillism/id556476833?ls=1&mt=8

-Nick

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Lee Burrows <subscripti...@leeburrows.com>wrote:

> Im happy for this small web app (and source code) to be used if its deemed
> appropriate: 
> http://mandelbrot-explorer.**com/<http://mandelbrot-explorer.com/>- it was 
> built pre-Apache but is spark so i can easily update it to 4.9
>
>
>
> On 05/02/2013 18:57, Alex Harui wrote:
>
>> It would definitely be great to get some apps for the showcase.
>>
>> The Adobe Flex showcase is still up, but it suffers from the fact that
>> most apps require a login so most of what you have are screenshots.
>>
>> I sent a screenshot of PrintUI to Infoworld, and apps like that would be
>> nice to have in a showcase.
>>
>> One thing I've been pondering is that what the killer showcase app would
>> be.  Even PrintUI requires a healthy wait at startup (at least at home over
>> DSL) and the task to perform takes "a while" so most folks won't really try
>> it to completion and get a good feel for what it can do.
>>
>> Startup time is an important part of the new framework I'm working on so
>> that public-facing apps over slower connections startup reasonably quickly,
>> but it I am still searching for a task that the public can accomplish that
>> doesn't require money, logins, several steps, etc, but showcases any
>> advantages of Flex.
>>
>> That said, the static screenshots and even some of these dynamic apps are
>> becoming easier to do in HTML.  So really, maybe developer productivity is
>> our best selling point these days?  Or is it the ability to use structured
>> programming?
>>
>> Alex Harui
>> Apache Flex Team
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Harbs [mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:24 AM
>>> To: dev@flex.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: [PR] Getting people excited about Flex
>>>
>>> Well, you can feel free to use PrintUI.com in both capacities... ;-)
>>>
>>> Anyone on the dev list who has permission to showcase apps, can just
>>> post them
>>> here as a starting point for the list.
>>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote:
>>>
>>>  I'd love to see something like this on the website.  The only problem
>>>> was seeding the list.  Heck, I couldn't even get 6 companies to allow
>>>> us to use their logos to say that they use Apache Flex to put on our
>>>> website...
>>>>
>>>> -Nick
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Marcus Fritze
>>>> <marcus.fri...@googlemail.com
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, this sounds good. I think, on the old flex.org page there was
>>>>> also a showcase section. And everybody could see, what's possible with
>>>>> Flex.
>>>>>
>>>>> And we should not forget the category desktop AIR apps. And maybe
>>>>> "categorize" these apps into topics (or tags - what does the
>>>>> application).
>>>>>
>>>>> Marcus Fritze
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 05.02.2013 um 16:28 schrieb Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>  I was thinking: There's nothing quite like showing people quality
>>>>>>
>>>>> working applications to convince them that a technology is a viable
>>>>> option for their own needs.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Should we have a featured page of the Flex website that has a list
>>>>>> of
>>>>>>
>>>>> featured applications? We could break it into categories of web apps,
>>>>> iOS apps and Android apps. Eventually HTML apps could join that list.
>>>>> Mobile apps are probably the most important, because no one knows
>>>>> what technology you used to create a mobile app...
>>>>>
>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Harbs
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>

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