Thanks Chris. Interesting stuff. On 9/2/15, 12:21 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]> wrote:
>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
