Comments on: Adobe Mobile Packager: are runtimes still important or are development environments and tools taking over?

By: khaled

khaled — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:21:00 +0000

its great an any way

By: Thomas Menguy

Thomas Menguy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:32:55 +0000

Update: look at this one http://tmenguy.free.fr/TechBlog/?p=361 Java to AS3 translation … meaning running java on the flash runtime … again a proof that language and runtimes are more and more uncorrelated!

By: Thomas Menguy

Thomas Menguy — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:05:44 +0000

Thanks, missed this one. Yes strange, but mobile packager seems to be more of a product description than a name.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:28:50 +0000

I agree with you Dan. I just searched “Mobile Packager” on google and I was able to see another product that does similar thing. I guess Adobe is becoming like MS

By: Dan Smith

Dan Smith — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:02:53 +0000

It is really sad to see adobe take a product name that is already used by another vendor!!

Adobe product name are very unique and but not this one. Adobe just stole a product name from another vendor that I know of.!!

By: Thomas Menguy

Thomas Menguy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:37:12 +0000

Ciao Simone,

Thanks for the comments.
Yes, agreed, for me Qt is an exception: it is a “direct”, kind of old school native development environment, like the iPhone one, but unlike it Qt is really cross platform at the heart…anyway we never know, project like adobe alchemy will allow C++ to run in a flash runtime, so perhaps C++/Qt may also become a kind of “cross runtime” platform .
On the Widget side yes, those frameworks can count in the list, companies like ViaMobility are already providing some kind of “multi widgets framework runtime”, on which yahoo, google and other will run.
2009 will be VERY interesting!

Anyway I didn’t know your blog … right into my feed list!

BR and Happy New Year
Thomas

By: Simone Cicero

Simone Cicero — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:52:29 +0000

Ciao Thomas,
great recap, maybe lacks of some thoughts about QT and widgets at least.

I’ve recently attended a panel talk during SmartphoneShow@london where they discussed the future of dev. runtimes and the panel agreed that we’ll probably not have a “one language fits all” paradigm.

We’ll probably go towards thiner and thiner web clients and, that’s why I think that RIA and Widgets are key areas.

Simone – meedabyte.wordpress.com

By: Thomas Menguy

Thomas Menguy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:14:46 +0000

Hi Mark Thanks for the comment!

What I think is really interesting with this Adobe Packager is that the end user thinks he has downloaded/is using a normal native application …and didn’t see an awkward “.swf” file.
As for the automatic installation of AppZone, I’m just not sure : installing something the user hasn’t requested…has to be cleanly explained and described at install I think.

As a side comment about the Adobe reorg: It seems that the “flash platform” is strengthened, but is there any future for the flash lite runtime itself? Or do you see it developed and expanded to reach the real flash?

Regards
Thomas

By: Mark Doherty

Mark Doherty — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:03:34 +0000

Great article Thomas!

The Adobe Mobile Packager not only allows you to package applications for distribution, but it also enables the distribution and update of Flash itself.

For the first time on mobile devices its possible to get Flash over-the-air as required.

Included with the OTA player is the Adobe AppZone for discovering applications in catalogues from our partners Zed and Thumbplay.

Regards,

Mark Doherty
Adobe – Developer Evangelist