Cut costs with cross-platform development in Adobe AIR

Cut costs with cross-platform development in

Adobe AIR

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About the Presenter

Valery Pesetski

Head of Flex department at Altoros Developmentskype: [email protected]


Session contents

• Introductiono What is cross-platform developmento Advantages of cross-platform development

• What is Adobe AIRo Target platformso Development toolso Features

• Adobe AIR marketo Desktop applicationso Mobile applications

• Time to calculate expenseso Development scenarios comparison


Introduction

Today’s business tasks of application development:

• Build an application faster than a competitor

• Cover max audience• Release a new application version

faster• Reduce costs• Make applications of the high quality


What is cross-platform

development ?


Create once, run everywhere!


Advantages

• One code base, multiple platforms• Ability to apply the existing Flex

development skills• Shorter learning curve• Faster development• Reusable code and infrastructure• Code portable to other devices


What is Adobe AIR ?



Target platforms


Development tools


How does it work


How packager works


Features

• GPS support• Accelerometer support• Camera and video support• StageWebView (web content inside an application)• Screen orientation support• Encrypted local storage• Multitouch and gestures• Native extensions

See more features at http://www.adobe.com/products/air/features.html


Adobe AIR usage


Desktop applications examples


Mobile applications examplesMachinarium

Machinarium, an award-winning, point-and-click adventure and puzzle game developed with Flash technology is now the #1 iPad app in all paid categories in the U.S. and 12 other countries after just one day!


Mobile applications examplesAge of Defenders

Age of Defenders is a tower defense game for browser (Win, Linux, Mac), iPad, Android and soon to be launched on BlackBerry PlayBook. The game is built with Flash and ported to tablets with Adobe AIR.


Mobile applications examplesPolitifact

Politifact just released their Flex-based application on iOS, Android, and Blackberry and it has already hit the top of the charts. It is currently the #1 paid news application on the iOS App Store.


Time to calculate expenses

Business task #1

You need 1 web application with Android and iOS clients:• An average project duration according to the scope

of work - 1 year• You need to hire at least 3 developers: Web

developer, Android developer, and iOS developer. OR You can assign 1 Flex developer.

According to indeed.com the average salaries are: Web developer - 88,000$ Android developer - 95,000$iOS developer - 95,000$ Flex developer - 95,000$


Development timeline

1 flex developer will do it cheaper


Business task #2

You and your competitor have decided to build 1 game forweb (Facebook), with Android and iOS clients. Both got $300,000 venture capital:

Your competitor opts to employ 3 different developers (Web, Android, iOS).

You choose to hire 3 Flex developers.


Development timeline #2


Summary

• Adobe AIR allows us to develop cross-platform applications on popular desktop and mobile OS

• Adobe AIR provides good performance and set of features on different devices

• We can enable support for some unsupported features by creating native extensions for our application

• Development in Adobe AIR is cheaper than development in multiple languages

• You can easily port existing Flash application to mobile platform and speed up your development process

• We are able to assign 1 Flex developer for support instead of employing multiple developers


Questions are welcome!

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Cut costs with cross-platform development in Adobe AIR