Where do you get this widget?

On Sep 2, 2015, at 10:21 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

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