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Adobe’s Hero, The Flex Mobile Framework.

July 30th, 2010 | Add a Comment

I am curious about Adobe’s Hero, Lately heard a lot about that as a mobile flex development framework. If any one has experience and view about this framework please comment and pont to the right tutorials and examples.

 http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Hero

In brief about Adobe’s Hero, the Flex Mobile Platform

Adobe is currently building new mobile development capabilities into the Flex framework. The next version of Flex, codenamed “Hero”, will enable developers to create application experiences that translate well across platforms, and make it easy to build applications that work well on a wide variety of mobile devices. “Hero” will augment a number of existing Flex components with mobile- and touch-optimized skins and functionality, and will also add new components that support mobile-specific UI patterns.
Previously, Adobe had investigated splitting off mobile development into a new branch of the Flex framework code-named “Slider”. However, the rapid increases in performance on smartphone-class devices over the past year, combined with the highly optimized performance of Adobe runtimes on these devices, now make it feasible to support mobile use cases directly with the core Flex framework.

Availability

A preview version of “Hero” is expected to be available later in 2010. You can watch the opensource Hero site for ongoing progress and updates.

Here is the press release about the Adobe’s hero Framework.

(1888PressRelease) July 16, 2010 – Last year in October 2009 Adobe at one of its very popular Adobe’s Max conference announced that the company plans to introduce Flex to the mobile world and hence is in the process of launching a mobile Flex development framework which would be called slider. The slider was aimed to be launched solely for smart phones to make it more challenging and exciting for Flex developers.

However as per the recent updates it seems slider got thrown out of Adobe’s product list even before it was introduced to the market as recently the company announced a new product called the Hero. This successive Adobe Flex version will further enhance the Flex development process and help Flex developers to build web applications which will work well across platforms. The applications built using Hero will also work well on smart phones. Adobe has plans to include new elements in Hero which would support mobile-specific UI patterns. Hero will work as a single platform for developers to develop both phone and desktop applications.

All these features which Adobe plans to include in Hero surely makes it a good product however the news of its introduction has divided the Flex community in two parts. Flex developers who have been waiting for Slider since its announcement felt a little disappointed as with Hero it will still take another year or so for them to be able to use Flex on mobile phones. They feel that the wait is getting longer and longer.

On the other hand some people opine that though Hero would take some time to be launched the finished product would be worth the wait. It would be one of its kind, may the only web application platform which can be used on both the desktop and mobile phones. The wait makes these Flex developers even more excited to see and use the all new Hero and transform their Flex development skills to the mobile world as well. They also feel that Hero will reduce their work to a very large extent.

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