Hi Guys,

I stumbled over something interesting yesterday, that I think is worthy to 
share :-)


For my presentations I'm always looking for some proof of people still using 
Flash and Air even if everybody seems to be claiming they are dead. Usually I 
search the playstore for ids starting with com.adobe or similar. But when 
working on Flexmojos Mobile support I noticed that this prefix isn't really 
proof of an application using Air or not ... but it still lists a lot of 
well-known applications (mostly games). Another option was to run the Air 
application on my mobile phone where it some times lists games built with Air. 
Unfortunately I couldn't reproduce opening the Air App and it showing me the 
list ... most of the times it only showed me 2-3 selected games and nothing 
more.


Two tays ago I was playing around with my Android phone and added some strange 
Air container widget to my home screen. It seems to be intended for grouping 
together Air based applications on your smartphone. As expected this was empty 
when I placed it on my screen (I didn't install anything using the Air-Store 
(or what you call it)) ... yesterday however it was suddenly filled with games 
I had installed on my phone. The funny thing is that I don't have many games as 
I rarely play, but 100% of the games that I do like to play seem to be built 
with Air (Siedler von Catan, Cut the rope, Bejewled, ...). I intentionally 
installed another game that I knew not to be built with Air and that didn't 
show up in the widget.


Just thought I'd share this finding ... usually I keep my fingers still with 
"flex is dead" mails, but this one is more a "alive-and-kicking" and if this 
finding helps someone convince people to give it a try, it's worth talking 
about it ;-)


Chris

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