I have to build a mission-critical cross-platform app on both iOS and Android for a client. The choice of platform is mine to make. I would prefer to go with a Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkit.
I have always been more of a server-side guy, and I have rarely if ever done any client-side programming in HTML/JS, et al, and I find a proliferation of choices for web-based technologies like Ionic among others. I have never been too comfortable with web-based toolkits, however. On the other hand, I find the Adobe Flex platform quite interesting and more suited to my taste. As an aside, I find Ionic to be quite future-proof (the foreseeable future, at least), though I would like to reiterate that I am neither comfortable with JS-based toolkits, nor do I have much time on my hands to learn the entire stack of Angular + Ionic. Learning Adobe Flex has been fun, and I have picked up quite a bit of it, including ActionScript in the past couple of days. I know that Adobe Flash is (almost) dead. I want to know if Adobe Flex/Air is actually a good platform of choice for my purpose in 2018. And if it isn't, can you please recommend some other RIA framework? PS: I am not asking this question from a job perspective, i.e., dwindling number of jobs, etc. That doesn't matter to me. Rather, I would like to know from the community's perspective, as well as support of the technology on all major deployment platforms like Android, iOS, Windows, etc. -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/
