- 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]
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