The problem is starting to lose the fight in the desktop and is very hard to keep fighting in the web.
Saul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of OmPrakash Muppirala Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Flex 4.15.0 Kunal, Flex, especially for Mobile is not going anywhere anytime soon. I have been using Flex Mobile to build graphically intensive, data driven mobile apps for iOS and Android for a while now. Nothing comes close to the power of Flex and AIR in terms for cross platform app devlopment. Take a look at the talk I gave at ApacheCon 2015 just last month. Slide number 4, especially, talks about the recent momentum and success behind Adobe AIR. http://www.slideshare.net/bigosmallm/flex-mobile-apachecon-2015 Thanks, Om On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 11/4/15, 7:03 AM, "Kunal Jaura" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Hi Alex, > > > >We've been working on Mobile apps using Flex-AIR for the last 4 years. > >With all the hoopla around 'Flash dying' my boss has been after me to > >figure out if we need to move to a new technology with 'more > >community support'. > > > >The reason I asked about this was to get an idea on what Apache Flex > >has in terms of a roadmap for enhancements/ new features for Flex. I > >do see a lot of activity & excitement around FlexJS but haven’t heard > >much on the Flex SDK side. > > > >I've been a fan of Flex for years now and I guess I'm looking for > >help from this group to get something to counter my boss's point that > >'the support for Flex is diminishing & it’s a dying toolset'. > > IMO, one of the main goals of FlexJS is to be the next generation of > Flex where you can leverage your existing code and truly not have to > worry about the future of Adobe runtimes (which, as far as I can tell, > aren’t going away any time soon). > > That’s why there is more energy being spent on FlexJS. In theory your > manager could not have such an opinion of FlexJS was ready to run your app. > > I don’t know how much code you have, but consider the cost of trying > to migrate it to some other language vs making fewer changes and > getting it to run without Flash/AIR via FlexJS. > > One problem we face right now is that we don’t have enough folks > working on FlexJS to help it mature faster. I wish I could convince > more managers to let folks like you devote even an hour a week to working > with FlexJS. > It should still be less costly than a full port to another language. > > And think about it this way: what could be put into a Flex 4.15.0 that > would convince your manager to change his mind. If you can, try to > help your manager see that, unlike a product sold by a for-profit > company like Adobe, Apache Flex is a project supported by a community, > and folks like you can become a committer in that community, which > essentially gives your company true influence on the future of Flex at > Apache. You can be the one to commit the bug fixes, generate the > releases, etc. No other company can prevent that from happening. > That’s why folks like you need to get involved enough to obtain > committer and PMC member rights. That’s what best guarantees the future of > the technology. > > HTH, > -Alex > > >
