Tuesday 21 June 2011

Convergence… Build Once… Deploy everywhere

Adobe announced the release of Flash Builder 4.5 – the really neat thing about this the fact that you can build a flash application which can be deployed on all the current platforms – both mobile and non-mobile – including iOS.

 

The neat trick is that the single developer environment creates different “native” packages for each of your selected target systems. So now it does not matter if Apple decides to not support Flash – the tool can yet be used to build native applications.

 

Facebook has decided to beat Apple using another tactic – leverage HTML 5. This version of HTML allows designers to create rich interfaces in HTML and is natively supported by the Safari browser which is part of iOS. Other browsers such as IE9 and Mozilla too support it…

So either leveraging HTML 5 or Flash Builder 4.5 – you can build your mobile application once and use it on all the devices.

 

Microsoft – are you listening???

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