On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 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 > As with most cases, there is a vocal group of folks shouting from the rooftops that 'flash/flex is dead'. In reality, there are so many companies silently building and releasing apps with Apache Flex, AIR and Flash. And they don't come out in defense of the platform for the fear of being labeled as going against the hive think. I hope many more companies come out publicly support the platform. Thanks, Om
