My answer is YES, Flash Platform is the only one can cross most desktop browsers and Android/IOS apps, others are just fake. Use Flex when 1) your app will use a lot of standard components; 2) your app has highly complex user interactions. -Gary
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Dennis Raddle <dennis.rad...@gmail.com>wrote: > I know very little about Flex, ActionScript, Flash, or AIR. I'm taking some > educational software I developed in Python/Qt on Windows, and I want to > rewrite it with Adobe's stuff so it can run on iOS and Android. > > I'm trying to get a feel for which tools will be useful to me. Right now > I'm working with the book "Flex 4.5 Fundamentals: Training From the > Source." I notice that the examples in the book are geared toward RIA's, > while my software will not have any Internet features to speak of. It's > more like a very simple game (some 2D animation, drawings, fonts) on a > desktop. At this point I'm not sure if Flex is even useful to me, or if I > will end up writing this purely in ActionScript. I don't know if Flash > Builder will be useful to me for that. > > So, given that my app uses fonts, some simple graphics and 2D animation, > and given that I want it to run on iOS and Android, which of the Adobe > tools do you think I'll end up using? > > Dennis >
