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Introducing Monocle

Profiling Flash/AIR mobile app

Adobe User Group Geneva

University of Geneva

14th November 2012

Laurent Jayr Application Development Consultant

29.09.2012

Mobile Application Development with AIR 1

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1. Introduction

2. Flash / AIR mobile platform in 2012

3. Monocle: a real profiler

4. Monocle for mobile in action

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Let’s start with a demonstration…

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How does this demo work?

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• Peer-to-Peer channel available

since Flash Player version 10.1

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How does this demo work?

• Peer-to-Peer channel available

since Flash Player version 10.1

• With multicasting, data is

broadcasted across all P2P

mesh (audio, video, binary files,

pure data…)

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1. Introduction

2. Flash / AIR mobile platform in 2012

3. Monocle: a real profiler

4. Monocle for mobile in action

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The Flash / AIR mobile platform in 2011

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Mobile Flash Player (inside browser)

• Android + BlackBerry Playbook

• not allowed for iOS

Mobile AIR runtime (outside browser)

• Android

• iOS

• BlackBerry Playbook

• Connected TV…

Browser

Mobile APP

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The Flash / AIR mobile platform in 2012

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Mobile Flash Player (inside browser)

Adobe has removed FP from Android

focus on AIR mobile runtime

Mobile AIR runtime (outside browser)

• Android

• iOS

• BlackBerry Playbook

• Connected TV

• BB10 (confirmed)

• WP8 Metro? (to be confirmed)

Browser

Mobile APP

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What about Flex?

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Flex framework has moved to open source

• Apache licence

• First release (Flex SDK 4.8) in july 2012

• Although it is still related to AIR, Flex Mobile is no longer under Adobe

development strategy, but instead by the Apache community

• Flex Apache community pretty active, with a lot of commits in Oct. 2012

• Mailing list : http://incubator.apache.org/flex/mailing-lists.html

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Adobe long-term strategy

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2- Focus on gaming / premium video with Flash / AIR

• For desktop (Windows, MacOS,…)

• For mobile with AIR (iOS, Android, BB10…)

1- Focus on HTML5

• For desktop (new Edge brand)

• For mobile (PhoneGap / Cordova)

Main last enhancements:

• Native Extensions (mobile)

• Workers (multi-threading)

• ASC2.0 new compiler

Under specifications:

• ASNext (AS4 language)

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Adobe long-term strategy

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New tools and frameworks

• Starling: 2D framework (Stage3D/GPU)

• Feathers UI: UI set based on Starling for creating

fast and smooth mobile UI (should be supported by

Adobe?)

• Monocle project : the next-generation profiler for

Flash content (FP + AIR Mobile)

Monocle project FeathersUI

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1. Introduction

2. Flash / AIR mobile platform in 2012

3. Monocle: a real profiler

4. Monocle for mobile in action

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Monocle… what is this?

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Flash Player 11.4 & AIR 3.4 : telemetry features introduction

• Telemetry is a technology that allows data measurements to be made at a distance

• The word is derived from two Greek roots: tele = remote and metron = measure

The Telemetry feature works deep inside the internals of the Flash runtime and sends

data to Monocle, which parses it and displays it in a clear and concise way

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Why Monocle?

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Benefits

• No debugger : Monocle does not require any debugger version of the Flash player

Profiling in real context, even as a release build

• Profiling at full speed (different than inside a debugger player running slower)

Remote profiling

A powerful feature: running the content to be profiled on a different machine than the machine

running Monocle

A few scenarios possible:

1. A desktop machine is running the content (with Flash Player), with another computer

running Monocle. This can be useful to debug a remote project.

2. A mobile device is running the content (with Adobe AIR), with another computer

running Monocle. This is a typical workflow when developing for mobile devices.

You can direct Telemetry to any accessible machine by entering a hostname or IP address.

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Enable advanced Telemetry on SWFs

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Flash Builder 4.7 comes with a new option in the compiler settings

allowing you to enable Telemetry

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1. Introduction

2. Flash / AIR mobile platform in 2012

3. Monocle: a real profiler

4. Monocle for mobile in action

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Monocle for mobile in action

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BASEL BERN LAUSANNE ZÜRICH DÜSSELDORF FRANKFURT A.M. FREIBURG I.BR. HAMBURG MÜNCHEN STUTTGART WIEN

Thank you ! Trivadis AG

Laurent Jayr

laurent.jayr@trivadis.com

www.trivadis.com

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