Hi Joe, I haven't heard any plans for native extensions to be part of the Flex SDK, I could of course be wrong. There is work on mobile components continuing. (If your unaware there are Flex components and skins designed for mobile as there are more lightweight(faster)).
Adobe air is the Flash runtime (which Flex has to run on, although there is some work on the compiler to export to html/js) but build for desktops and devices with some extra device apis. The Flex sdk is great for building cross platform apps fast although you will need to be very careful with performance coming from desktop to mobile. If you already know flex there is little to none learning curve. Especially if you have experience with desktop Air apps. Flex is great for what it was designed for, so data driven type, ui component based apps. I would not recommend using a Flex mobile app for a base for mobile game development however. What do you want to build? -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Hayes [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 08 May 2013 22:59 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Flex Mobile Project Updates Mark, Thanks for the reply. Your answer sheds some more light on the fact that the Flex SDK is really independent from Android, but only tied via Air. Sorry if I'm not asking the right questions, I'm new to mobile development and still trying to wrap my head around it. Not sure if I should stick with Flex (which is what I want) or go down the rabbit hole with native code. Will Apache be making an effort to update/add/create "native extensions" for IOS and Android? Or do I have this all wrong? If there's a resource I should read, please point me in the right direction. Thanks Again, Joe -----Original Message----- From: Mark Line [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Flex Mobile Project Updates Adobe aren't updating Flex anymore. Just Apache/open source community Flex apps required adobe air to run on mobile (android and iOS). The current version of air (3.7) requires android 2.3 and above. I think you can target older air versions to lower the minimal version of android. If you just wanted to write in pure as3 you can look at other solutions (hax, playscript, starling and feathers) On 8 May 2013 18:17, "Joseph Hayes" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I've been developing apps in Flex for a couple years now and I love it. > I'm thinking about some mobile development now. However, I noticed > that Adobe's site said they weren't updating the Flex SDK to support > Android OS versions newer than 4.0.something. Has, or will, the Apache > Flex group be updating the SDK to support the newer Android versions? > > > > Thanks, > > Joe Hayes | GIS Tech III > > Department of Land Use & Transportation > > Planning and Development Services | Long Range Planning > > 503.846.3877 > > > > > >
