How Easy is it to Turn a Big Flex Application Into An Apollo App? Really Easy
- Scrapblog, one of the better Flex 2 applications that I’ve seen, launched today with some high praise. In the conversation, I came across a post by Tara Hunt and I thought it was worth highlighting because I think it shows just how easy it is to take a full, production Flex application and port it to Apollo:
On Tuesday afternoon, Chris and I stopped by the Adobe booth at ETech to chat with Michelle Turner about Apollo. Adrian Ludwig was also there, preparing for the hot Apollo demo they were going to do on Thursday morning. Somewhere in the conversation Scrapblog came up and Adrian said, “You know, if they could get that working in Apollo by Thursday, we really need another great app to demo….â€
So, instantly, I called Carlos, who only hesitated because he had been pushing his lead developer, Omar, so hard.
“I’ll see what Omar says.â€
Carlos is a super organized guy. He sends us all sorts of timelines and feature roll out plans and has everything planned down to the minute of the day. A radical shift to building Scrapblog as an Apollo app was not in the cards for some time. Within a couple of hours, they confirmed that they would do it and Adrian jumped in with some Adobe resources to help them out.
They demo’d a beautiful Apollo version of Scrapblog this morning to many oooo’s and aaaaa’s.
Now I’m not sure what kind of functionality they built into Apollo, they may have just wrapped some window chrome around it, but it was demoable. Hopefully we’ll see a lot of awesome Flex applications create Apollo versions that break them out of the browser and add features.
[tags]Scrapblog, Apollo, Adobe, Flex[/tags]
Posted in Rich Internet Applications
March 29th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
This was exactly what I was thinking. But this is where I am worried about Adobe Apollo being fully crippled by the security sandbox that Adobe has previously applied to the flash player. If ScrapBlog was on the desktop with Apollo, their real issue is how can they resize images client side either in Flex/Apollo or with some other programme.
The problem looks like this photos on a user hard drive are about 2-3mb and growing as camera get more megapixels. So how can we build a rich scrapbook then realise we have 80mb of photo’s that need to be uploaded. Now I tried several versions of the Jpeg/Png encoder and it take approx 30s at 100% cup on a FAST machine with lots of ram. So this is not good.
I can bundle imagemagic with my install but there is no way I can call imagemagic “currently” from my app.
This is my only issue with the fantastic Apollo and hope that we will get some more power to address these issues either in via the Flash VM or being able to leverage specific applications in the install.
John
March 29th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Ryan, you are right. With the exception of a few tweaks, we did wrap the Flex app into Apollo. Nevertheless, Omar and I are big believers in the power of Apollo and we plan offer both, Flex and Apollo versions. It just makes sense to do so.
In the meantime, we are going to extend the functionality of the Apollo version that we did for today and we will blog it so that anyone interested can play with it.
March 30th, 2007 at 12:01 am
How Easy is it to Turn a Big Flex Application Into An Apollo App? Really Easy: Ryan Stewart…
“Scrapblog, one of the better Flex 2 applications that I’ve seen, launched today with some high praise. In the conversation, I came across a post by Tara Hunt and I thought it was worth highlighting because I think it shows……
March 30th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Scrapblog as an Apollo Application…
Scrapblog was featured on TechCrunch yesterday. They went offline for a while, but are back. The application is Flex based, and allows anyone to create really cool scrapbooks with their existing photos.
As with all web based applications, users mu…
April 1st, 2007 at 3:10 pm
[...] Scrapblog, un outil entièrement réalisé en Flex, permet de réaliser des portfolio, galeries d’images/vidéos, powerpoint (en fin de compte) de manière assez poussée et intéressante. On va pouvoir aussi récupérer le tout sur son site. Très application de bureau en ligne, il y a du Apollo là -dedans, (lire l’anecdote amusante à ce propos) Voir l’article sur techcrunch. Voir aussi la preview sur le site de scrapblog. Posté le avril 02nd, 2007 | [...]
May 11th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
When will Apollo be launched?
May 30th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Actually its available now – http://www.adobe.com/go/getapollo
May 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Actually its available now – http://www.adobe.com/go/getapollo – you need only to register on Adobe.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Thank you very much for your help Greg.
July 19th, 2007 at 2:36 am
I have had a problem to install the AIR beta, but then i saw on http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html – If you are having trouble installing an AIR application and you previously installed the Apollo alpha, the Apollo alpha must be uninstalled before installing the Adobe AIR beta.
Maybe it´s helpful for someone here…
July 22nd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Thank you very much…
July 25th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I had really serious trouble concerning AIR application. I dont know wyh but Apollo alpha was causing them. The only solution following Adobie hints was to delete Apollo alpha and install Adobe AIR beta. Since it is done everything works perfect.
Cheers,
August 6th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Merci beaucoup pour cet artcile d’une grande qualité.
August 6th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Thanks a lot, i have also tried to install the Adobe Integrated Runtime from Adobe Labs, i have also installed before the Apollo alpha, after installing the AIR nothing works. Then i have searched for help and found your blog, after deinstalling the old Apollo everything is working correctly… Cheers, Doc
August 10th, 2007 at 11:07 am
I found this blog when I was looking for a solution to the same problem. I also reinstalled my old OS because I thought there is the problem. Never thought of uninstalling the old version..ahh……Thanks
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August 18th, 2007 at 11:18 am
As well as Benedict I had some problems with Apollo before, however now Adobe AIR works pretty good for me.
August 24th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Adobe AIR now works, but there are not many sites with
more Information about coding.
Is there a good Forum or Community for Air ?
August 24th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Unfortunately, official forum is not very good (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=641) but I can advice http://www.codeapollo.com/index.php
You can find there about 5000 post about AIR and help from almost 400 users
Regards Peter
August 24th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Hey Udo, Airapps.net is a good site and there is a lot of activity on the Apollo Coders email list – http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/
=Ryan
rstewart@adobe.com
August 28th, 2007 at 7:58 am
very nice