Recently we had some great news, Adobe Air could be used to develop Apps for iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows. Not
Surprising really as Air has long been touted as a truly platform independent environment. It's only now it is starting to fulfil it's early promise.
But, what is Air? Most people will have never heard of it; it's used in a surprising number of situations already. TweetDeck, BBC iPlayer, eBay Desktop and many others already use Adobe Air and the number of Air Apps is growing fast.
What makes Adobe Air so attractive for us here at GeekyCreative is the fact that we can use our current development skills and with a little tweaking we can now deliver Apps on every platform.
Air Apps can be developed using simple HTML and JavaScript - the cornerstones of any web development. Then with a little post development adjustments (specific to each platform) we can have one App that can be used by all.
As you can imagine this 'new' development promises to slash production times and improve work flow; as well as control debugging versions and releases. It's a dream for developers and in our opinion will mean more innovation, better quality and new uses for clients.
We've spent most of the first quarter of 2011 talking about Apps! It seems that App development is in demand and we are only to happy to be building innovative new Apps for a range of new clients. Love really is in the Air.
