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Adobe Air Application case study - nycoders.org 0509
The case study discusses the development of an Adobe AIR iPad app under tight deadlines and outlines various challenges faced, particularly with video and PDF integrations. Key issues included misconceptions about content playback ease, staffing complexities, and unexpected technical difficulties with native extensions and documentation. Despite the challenges, the project was completed on time, demonstrating a qualified success and providing recommendations for future considerations in platform performance and audience targeting.
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- 1. Adobe AIR iPadApp Case Study “Unfortunately, we learned a lot!”
- 2. Project Background New Role,New Company History of Outsourcing at Company Staffing Situation Strategic Direction
- 3. An Opportunity! Boasting Called ClientCrisis Can you replicate this vendor’s iPad platform and update the content?
- 4. An Opportunity? Boasting Called ClientCrisis Can you replicate this vendor’s iPad platform and update the content? in 8 weeks!
- 5. Show app tothe nice people now!
- 6. The App Presentation builder AssetRepository Asset types: PDF, video, HTML5 Tracking (Flurry analytics) Email sharing of assets
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- 8. Options Native obj-C Appcelerator, PhoneGap,other Adobe AIR note: only for iPad 2
- 9. Options Native obj-C Appcelerator, PhoneGap,other Adobe AIR : you can always find a way to hack it out with Flash
- 10. The Research Phase Presentationbuilder Asset Repository Asset types: PDF, video, HTML5 Tracking (Flurry analytics) Email sharing of assets AIR workflow
- 11. Misconception #1 Adobe makesAIR, Adobe owns PDF standard PDF, certainly PDFs will be super easy! (I vaguely remember that Adobe AIR has native support for PDFs...) Is StageWebView the answer?
- 12. StageWebView Displays HTML Displays PDFs DisplaysVideo Top of Display List, always! No stacking?! No animation...
- 13. Workaround for PDFs ConvertPDFs to SWFs (PDF2SWF) Generate thumbnails from PDF Display as SWF Show results
- 14. Misconception #2 PDFs arehard, but videos will be easy! Flash has always been good for video, right?
- 15. Video playback oniOS FLV playback Using StageWebView with Video file Using StageWebView with Video embedded in HTML Using StageVideo: why we didn’t use this
- 16. Video playback oniOS You can have video auto play (SWV video) Or you can track video events (SWV HTML w/video) BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE BOTH!
- 17. Video playback oniOS You can have video auto play (SWV video) Or you can track video events (SWV HTML w/video) BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE BOTH! or can you? Stage Video is one option... And what about Full screen?
- 18. Our super-duper autoplay workaround HTML-StageWebViewCommunications Auto play AND video status! Show Code
- 19. Our super-duper full screenworkaround Same trick, just with a delay HTML-StageWebView Communications Auto play AND video status and full screen! Show Code
- 20. Native Extensions extensionsforair.com Flurry, NativeDialog used Mail Composer considered Wretched documentation: illustrate Tricky!
- 21. Native Extensions Need tobe defined in 2 places!
- 22. Native Extensions -2 SDK may be required
- 23. Email Sharing Sendgrid isyour friend! AWS or Rackspace to ser ve files
- 24. Unexpected Problems Keyboard/Text editing Smalluser community Crap Documentation Mysterious build errors Updating AIR runtime is complicated
- 25. What we loved JSON! Easyto staff Good performance, overall Familiar workflow Rapid development
- 26. Correct Conceptions Simple andquick architecture (show) Easy to build UI Able to adapt to schedule change (oops, only 5 weeks after all) Project ready on time as promised
- 27. Recommendations Consider target audience Learnplatform first Where do you need performance? Work within limitations and you will be very happy
- 28. Summary Qualified success Video andPDFs much harder than expected Full screen scaling/pinching vector art problematic Worth considering, especially with cross-platform