Adobe Systems has delivered an update to its Adobe Flash Builder/Flex app-development software. It means developers will be able to use a single platform to build mobile offerings for Android, iOS and BlackBerry mobile devices. The integrated development environment can serve as a stand-alone tool or function as part of Adobe’s Creative Suite 5.5 offering, Adobe said Monday.
What’s truly revolutionary about the Flash Builder/Flex 4.5 release is that developers will only need to assemble a single code base to deploy their apps to multiple platforms.
“To create an app natively for one platform would have taken at least three times the amount of time — and then we would have had to start from scratch all over again for a native app on the next platform,” said HD Interactive President Sean Carey. “It’s unbelievable the amount of time we save using Flash Builder 4.5 to build and deploy our apps.”
Leveling the Playing Field
According to Vision Mobile’s latest survey of 850 developers worldwide, Apple’s iOS ranked third (27 percent) behind Google’s Android OS (35 percent) and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (32 percent). However, Adobe’s Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 framework could end up leveling the playing field.
It would be ironic if Adobe’s new developer tools boost the number of offerings in Apple’s App Store in light of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ heavy criticism of Adobe Flash. Flash Builder/Flex 4.5 also could give Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform a boost, since developers will be able to assemble apps for Android and iOS devices as well as RIM’s PlayBook in one swipe.
“As RIM transitions to the QNX environment with its future superphones, these tools will be available to build multi-platform apps targeting these three major platforms,” said Al Hilwa, director of applications development software at IDC.
With Flash Builder/Flex 4.5, it will also…
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