At the company I work we have a sales application that runs on Mac + Win + iPad, it could even run on an Android tablet. And it is the same code .. That is what I call flexible. It works great for us and I know it works great for other companies as well. We are also create Mac/Win desktop apps this way for our clients. In that area HTML5 can do nothing, absolutely nothing compared to Flex/AIR. Only for websites I believe HTML is better but than it also comes with cross browser issues. So for productivity Flex/AIR is also much better. And we create our websites in HTML here and our apps in Flex/AIR. Guess who is the least frustrated here, HTML developers or me? It just works here for me :-) My boss asked for a simple HTML application where a tree would grow after playing a video. We created it in HTML, tested in browser and was working fine. Then tested it on iPad and it was REALLY slow (but using Canvas for drawing and using an animated gif). One animated gif worked fine but we needed three separate gifs and that just didn't work smoothly at all. Spend 2-3 days on it. We needed it the next day, so in the evening I created it from scratch in Flex and created an iPad app. My boss again was shown how for cutting edge projects you need Flash/AIR, not HTML at the moment.
Fréderic Cox On 28/02/13 16:37, "Russell Warren" <r...@perspexis.com> wrote: >Regarding comments about Flex on mobile, I'll chime in with a variant on >this. I personally don't care much about Flex on "mobile" (ie: phones), >but am definitely interested in Flex on tablets. I separate the two, >although I think most don't due to the often similar hardware and OS. > >Flex is excellent for enterprise (as often stated) and we're heavily >invested in it... and this is as a newcomer to Flex in the last year or >so, >which may be of interest to some. > >However, 'enterprise' used to mean 'controlled environments using desktop >PCs', but these days there is a lot of increased tablet use, especially by >execs, in the enterprise space. We haven't crossed that bridge yet, but >don't realistically expect to get much of a code base ported from the >desktop Flex apps over to the tablet space. One can hope, of course, but >I >expect that when it comes time for tablet apps we'll be porting a lot of >code. Time will tell, and we'll be certainly trying out AIR on that day, >but performance expectations for tablets are low based on the few demos >we've played with. This only marginally affects our enthusiasm for Flex >on >the desktop... rewriting code for different platforms is the norm these >days, but from a desktop/os/browser portability perspective, >Flex/AS3/Flash >just can't be beat. Plus it's awesome (no matter what the unfortunate >state of public opinion/awareness is). > >We're sticking with Flex for a while yet. > >Russ
