"Maybe the person who contacted you could help with that?" Hi Alex, To clarify, I did not get contacted by a 'person' - it was a facebook broadcast email to all facebook developers. Or perhaps it might have been filtered to target only those who were associated with flash deployments in the past (I have worked on some of the Flex apps I referred to earlier, although my main focus at the time was more on the mobile skus instead of the web ones). The Flex app on web was using ExternalInterface and the FB javascript sdk for integration with their platform, so I think that part should be straightforward/easier with Royale.
I expect it might be easy enough to provide a minimal/basic facebook sdk integration example, in the same way that it is possible for other javascript sdks. That would be not exciting in itself, but would be reassuring perhaps. I could look into this myself, but I am unlikely to get there before sometime next month. For now, I do think it's appropriate to request inclusion on the page as a 'flash to html5' migration technology. Hopefully Carlos's request will result in someone at FB looking into that. Beyond that, in terms of 'migrating' something substantial as an example, I don't think that is realistic unless someone actually goes ahead and does a real migration project and shares their experience. Of course, I also reached out to my former client and recommended Royale, but I am currently not aware that they have any plans to migrate those specific apps to html5 via any route. It might be easy to assume that these things don't have same levels of complexity as a regular business-oriented Flex app, but that was definitely not the case for the ones I worked on, so the migration task is on the same scale. There also tends to be a bigger focus on assets: animations, sounds along with very customized re-skinning (so although it's a bit of a cliche: 'you would never assume it was built in Flex by looking at it'). But I assume some of the javascript libs mentioned on that page could help out there, even more so if there were externs available for Royale. I expect there would still be a reasonable amount of new work in a port, but it should be concentrated more in the view stuff, just like with business apps. Greg On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 4:00 AM Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.invalid> wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for letting the rest of the community know about this. It would be > nice to find a volunteer to actual migrate something so we have proof, even > if it is a getting started example for how to use Flex in FB. Maybe the > person who contacted you could help with that? > > -Alex > > On 6/18/19, 8:53 AM, "Carlos Rovira" <carlosrov...@apache.org> wrote: > > Thanks Greg, > > I tried to contact them via the pod bottom left to enter suggestions. I > insert this message: > > "Hi, about Flash to HTML technologies another one very nice to > consider is > Apache Royale: > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Froyale.apache.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C0f9cc11ff5e34044687f08d6f4051328%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636964699995357844&sdata=w%2F1NheWybGepj3CX0UGtyIz6hw7XD%2FQ9hHJwESspN0U%3D&reserved=0 > Could you consider to include it?" > > El mar., 18 jun. 2019 a las 3:34, Greg Dove (<greg.d...@gmail.com>) > escribió: > > > fyi I got a ping today from Facebook today about flash migrations to > html5. > > > > If anyone knows how to contact them internally to request that they > update > > their options, this page [1] could do with a Royale mention, I > believe. In > > case you're wondering, yes, I know of cases where Flex was used in > the past > > for Facebook games... but even if it is not simply for porting old > Flex > > apps, I think the possible use of some js externs for a game engine > could > > make Royale a good option for new facebook projects... Anyhow I'm > just > > sharing this in case someone knows how to influence updates to their > > developer info page and we can get a Royale mention... > > > > 1. > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.facebook.com%2Fdocs%2Fgames%2Fgamesonfacebook%2Fwebtech&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C0f9cc11ff5e34044687f08d6f4051328%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636964699995362837&sdata=U3N1kNt%2BROkY2tyrbDE9PpBlNngysAzYIBlslMXlo54%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > -- > Carlos Rovira > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fabout.me%2Fcarlosrovira&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C0f9cc11ff5e34044687f08d6f4051328%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636964699995362837&sdata=PSddAniAXv8OMVz2rixdtWG%2BZ6bZNeRDLadSLN8Svq4%3D&reserved=0 > > >
