So Slider, the mobile version of the Flex framework is dead.
Instead, we are getting Hero, the code name for the new Flex framework. No word as yet whether this is a point release or Flex 5...
Deepa threw a whole load of links into her blog post about it. Most pertinent being...
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Hero
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/mobile/faq.html
Most interesting part of this is finally a major update to the Datagrid! Anyone who's been kicking around from Flex will remember the last go at updating the Datagrid. The horrid AdvancedDataGrid which, and lets be fair to it here, was barely usable...
Once the news gets out in a proper way, I'd imagine the SDK team will be inundated with kitchen sink requests for a new Datagrid.
Which will we get from the Spark Datagrid... A decent replacement or ADG 2.0?
Rebounding on your statement that "Slider (...) is dead"
ReplyDeleteOne of the good things they seem to have retained in Hero is the screen navigation model.
However I am of the opinion that Adobe are in the wrong track when it comes to skinning the UI components to have the look&feel of the native mobile UI controls.
Instead they should have adopted the same approach as we have in ELIPS Studio: give the native UI controls a binding into Actionscript/Spark.
If you do not want to wait for Hero to create native mobile apps in Flex on iPhone, Android and more; then just take a look at ELIPS Studio here: http://developer.openplug.com
I'm just waiting for the fun and games when people start using the mobile elements in the desktop versions!
ReplyDeleteI'm already a part of he ELIPS program ;) I think it offers a lot, but native extensions make it harder for me to have a single codebase.