Comments on: Corona continues to add essential features ahead of AIR http://joshblog.net/2011/08/19/corona-continues-to-add-essential-features-ahead-of-air/ Just another WordPress site Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nurturing and maintaining a relationship with a big corporation while choosing the best paths for your own needs and interests « Josh Talks Flash http://joshblog.net/2011/08/19/corona-continues-to-add-essential-features-ahead-of-air/#comment-38725 Nurturing and maintaining a relationship with a big corporation while choosing the best paths for your own needs and interests « Josh Talks Flash Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:54:35 +0000 http://joshblog.net/?p=1225#comment-38725 [...] the capabilities of Corona and AIR. A couple of the posts were in favor of AIR while a couple were more critical. Most importantly, to me, the things I was most critical about have actually been improved in AIR [...]

]]> By: Matthew Fabb http://joshblog.net/2011/08/19/corona-continues-to-add-essential-features-ahead-of-air/#comment-15931 Matthew Fabb Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:01:25 +0000 http://joshblog.net/?p=1225#comment-15931 Adobe has committed to when native extensions will come out, but it looks like it will be with AIR version 3.0. We will have to wait until the final mobile version of the runtime and SDK are available.

Certainly that will be huge in filling all sorts of gaps in AIR and having some sort of library or marketplace where you can get these kind of extensions would be great.

]]> By: Josh Tynjala http://joshblog.net/2011/08/19/corona-continues-to-add-essential-features-ahead-of-air/#comment-15820 Josh Tynjala Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:21:35 +0000 http://joshblog.net/?p=1225#comment-15820 Right. I’d say Adobe definitely won’t be filling in these gaps on the runtime side. I hope they’ll consider starting with a nice collection of free example native extensions, though, and that they’ll strongly encourage the community (possibly with some incentives) to build more. Ideally, I’d like to see a thriving open source community or some sort of marketplace where I could drop a little cash to get something I don’t want to build myself.

ActionScript libraries are, of course, preferred. However, with AIR being a small fry in mobile, native extensions are what this community needs for services like those I mention above. I highly doubt the companies that create the services see any value in AIR currently, so we’ll be holding our breath forever if we don’t do something ourselves.

]]> By: polyGeek http://joshblog.net/2011/08/19/corona-continues-to-add-essential-features-ahead-of-air/#comment-15818 polyGeek Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:19:32 +0000 http://joshblog.net/?p=1225#comment-15818 Yep, definitely a shortcoming for AIR. And I would be surprised to see Adobe fill in this gap – although I hope I’m wrong.

Maybe, just maybe, there will be some Actionscript open source projects that fill in these gaps.

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