There's already the ability to cross compile to objective c for iOS, and swift would be potentially just the same thing but maybe better performance. So the real issue I think is figuring out how to squeeze better performance out of flex, particularly on mobile.
I did a tabbed mobile app in flex and it's pretty much great but I've heard from a lot of people I talk to that it's "slow". There are lots of things that you can do to optimize mobile flex apps but I'm wondering what a logical next step would be that maximizes reuse and performance. Adobe is making improvements to the runtime more on the gaming side but I wonder what could be done that would really enable flex to get back in full swing? I think that leveraging hardware acceleration via stage3d makes sense but I don't know if there is any way to migrate into this kind of thing without a ridiculous amount of work on the flex framework etc. David -----Original Message----- From: Nick Collins <ndcoll...@gmail.com> To: dev@flex.apache.org Sent: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 8:09 PM Subject: Re: Let's talk about Flex 5 Maybe we should do a FlexSwift and call that Flex 5 ;-) On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:13 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > From my point of view, Flex mobile should be a big part of Flex 5. To that > end, I am hoping that the Android 4.x and iOS7+ skins I am working on make > it into Flex 5. > > Thanks, > Om > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Carlos Velasco < > carlos.velasco.bla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I would expect it to run out of the flashplayer context, using its own > free > > and open source virtual machine, far away from the Javascript rubbish. > > > > > > 2014-06-03 11:37 GMT-04:00 Roberto Cotrina <rcotrina1...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Code generator based on template, the template read from DB. > > > > > > > > > 2014-06-03 9:58 GMT-05:00 Gary Yang <flashflex...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I am surprised that I have not seen any related topics. > > > > > > > > Flex has been there for almost 10 years. > > > > > > > > Flex4 has been there since 2009( right? before iOS )? > > > > > > > > What do you think about its future? > > > > > > > > What do you expect it to do? > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > > > -Gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Roberto, > > > > > >
