Comments on: Are you Bored With Adobe AIR? http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/07/are-you-bored-with-adobe-air/ Just an average guy trying to drink above average beer. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christian Land http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/07/are-you-bored-with-adobe-air/comment-page-1/#comment-109640 Christian Land Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:06:17 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1969#comment-109640 AIR is nice but has one major drawback. The memory-consumption of all AIR-Applications I know is simply insane. For example even simple Twitter Clients always take up somewhere between 60 and 100 MB (and if you are unlucky and their coders made a mistake - 400-600MB are easily reachable, too). And if you keep in mind that all those apps are doing are just a bunch of HTTP requests and displaying a few 150-byte blocks that memory-consumption is just hilarious. AIR is nice but has one major drawback. The memory-consumption of all AIR-Applications I know is simply insane. For example even simple Twitter Clients always take up somewhere between 60 and 100 MB (and if you are unlucky and their coders made a mistake – 400-600MB are easily reachable, too). And if you keep in mind that all those apps are doing are just a bunch of HTTP requests and displaying a few 150-byte blocks that memory-consumption is just hilarious.

]]> By: leef http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/07/are-you-bored-with-adobe-air/comment-page-1/#comment-107762 leef Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:08:08 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1969#comment-107762 Haha, what's with the 'Hello there Flash Cowboy' message output to the flashlog from your site? Did you make http://itsthr33am.com/ ? Haha, what’s with the ‘Hello there Flash Cowboy’ message output to the flashlog from your site?

Did you make http://itsthr33am.com/ ?

]]> By: mattjpoole http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/07/are-you-bored-with-adobe-air/comment-page-1/#comment-106872 mattjpoole Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:47:21 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1969#comment-106872 Hi Ryan, Appolgies for the flagrant self promotion, but rather than comment I've blogged - hope you like: http://blog.barncar.com/?p=293 Peace Matt Hi Ryan,

Appolgies for the flagrant self promotion, but rather than comment I’ve blogged – hope you like:

http://blog.barncar.com/?p=293

Peace
Matt

]]> By: leef http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/07/are-you-bored-with-adobe-air/comment-page-1/#comment-106757 leef Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:15:49 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1969#comment-106757 Would love to see the install process look less scary, and more polished, in fact exactly copying the OS installation window skin, and notices would be preferred. Improved update/install framework overall would be nice. Beyond that, the ability to interact with OS preference settings would be huge. I've used it for an admin tool that deals with local files being sent to a server, and the simple ability for the users to drag & drop files to be sent off to a server for upload is huge. AIR is great, and I really hope it is refined upon, and expanded. It has just enough "quirks" to make it slightly lackluster, and yet just enough beyond the browser to make it worthwhile. I guess I find it a mediocre platform, with a lot of potential. It does have far more limitations than developing an app with native tools, and yet it is easy to develop using the as3 skills I've already cultivated. Would love to see the install process look less scary, and more polished, in fact exactly copying the OS installation window skin, and notices would be preferred. Improved update/install framework overall would be nice. Beyond that, the ability to interact with OS preference settings would be huge. I’ve used it for an admin tool that deals with local files being sent to a server, and the simple ability for the users to drag & drop files to be sent off to a server for upload is huge.

AIR is great, and I really hope it is refined upon, and expanded. It has just enough “quirks” to make it slightly lackluster, and yet just enough beyond the browser to make it worthwhile. I guess I find it a mediocre platform, with a lot of potential. It does have far more limitations than developing an app with native tools, and yet it is easy to develop using the as3 skills I’ve already cultivated.

]]> By: Ben http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/07/are-you-bored-with-adobe-air/comment-page-1/#comment-106734 Ben Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:11:16 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1969#comment-106734 Bored with the deployment of AIR application in enterprise. I'm kind of all AIR capabilities... Unfortunatelly for deploying and updating AIR applications, we need to be power user with Windows. This is not the case in enterprise. Of course there is the silent installation but it is very difficult to industrialize the process for updating an AIR application compared to Flex application (AIR app on every user computer + backend). This is for me the main issue with Adobe AIR adoption. I hope there will be a fix for that quickly... Bored with the deployment of AIR application in enterprise.

I’m kind of all AIR capabilities…
Unfortunatelly for deploying and updating AIR applications, we need to be power user with Windows. This is not the case in enterprise.
Of course there is the silent installation but it is very difficult to industrialize the process for updating an AIR application compared to Flex application (AIR app on every user computer + backend).

This is for me the main issue with Adobe AIR adoption. I hope there will be a fix for that quickly…

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