Desktop AIR apps for Windows and OSX seem to be the most reluctant or challenging to phase out. The web apps are easier to replace than the AIR apps and there is a greater urge to. It is following the pattern of all legacy code. Large institutions with large B2B apps are going to hold onto it for a long time to come. Small startups will do some fresh work with it for the OS cross-compatibility. Other businesses are still in process of phasing it out and may be free in a few more years. If you are very senior you may want to stick with it for legacy code pay. If not very senior, the competition will be too tough to win the legacy coding jobs. Working from home is still possible but rare. It is largely dependent on the nature of the business now. Government and finance never allow it, period. While less restrictive business are more open to it because they are desperate. But the less restrictive businesses tend to have an easier time moving on to new code, so there are not so many of them. Overall right now there are both relatively few jobs and relatively few skilled candidates applying. As Jeffry mentioned, it is mostly maintenance of apps that couldn't for whatever reason make the move away from the Flash Platform. So basically a job opens up each time a Flex developer gets a new job doing something new, leaving the Flex job open behind him. There are exceptions to everything of course.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Trevor Holman <[email protected]> wrote: > While on the subject, is there a demand for AIR applications (as opposed > to web-based) or has that decreased as well? > > Trevor > > > > On Jun 20, 2016, at 2:26 PM, Jeffry Houser <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Finding remote possibilities is possible; but never guaranteed. You'll > either need to act like a real company with a sales cycle where the client > outsources projects too. Or you can act as a freelancer; building trust > with the client so they'll let you work off-site. > > > > Flex work is not as easy to come by today as it was before "Adobe > November". I don't believe you'll have an easy time finding Flex work. In > my experience the bulk of the Flex work is maintenance of existing > applications. > > > > You may consider looking into Angular or React which are both in high > demand and can be used to create similar browser based experiences. > > > > Your experience may vary. > > > > On 6/20/2016 1:00 PM, blue12 wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I’m coming back to RIA development (and to Flex-ActionScript) after a 5 > >> years absence and I am wondering if it’s possible/easy to do Flex > contracts > >> online, i.e. find contracts where you can work from home (or most > >> opportunities involve working on site) ? > >> > >> IT programming contracts used to be mostly on site, but I’m thinking > that > >> maybe things have changed ? Any pointers on where these can be found > would > >> be appreciated. > >> > >> Thanks ! > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Flex-contracts-from-home-tp12890.html > >> Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > -- > > Jeffry Houser > > Technical Entrepreneur > > http://www.jeffryhouser.com > > 203-379-0773 > > > >
