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PolitiFact Brings Political Truth to Mobile with the Adobe Flash Platform

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There is no question that today’s political rhetoric can get heated on both side of the aisle. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, people want the truth from their politicians and pundits.  Since 2007, the St. Petersburg Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact.com has provided insight into the American politics. It helps users find the truth in politics by examining statements by members of Congress, the president, cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, people who testify before Congress and other Washington D.C. gadflies. Then, it rates the accuracy on the Truth-O-Meter – True, Mostly True, Half True, Barely True, False and the lowest rating, Pants on Fire. 

Using multiple Adobe technologies including Adobe Flash Builder 4.5.1, Flex 4.5.1 and Adobe Illustrator, PolitiFact has gone mobile. Now, the truth can go anywhere you go with the new PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter mobile application, available for download on the Android Market, BlackBerry App World and iTunes.  Unique to the mobile application is the Truth Index that provides the ups and downs of Truth-O-Meter ratings across the entire American political scene in real-time on a daily basis.

Using Flash Builder, the PolitiFact team created the app within three weeks. Flash Builder and the Flex framework made it possible to develop in just one code base and quickly leverage content from the existing PolitiFact website. By developing the application with one code base with Adobe technologies, the development team i saved time and money by not having to build and test a separate native application for each individual device. The app has really taken off and was the number one news app in iTunes when it launched!

To learn more about how PolitiFact used Adobe technologies to bring the politics to mobile, read more here.

PolitiFact App Named #1 for News in iTunes

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The PolitiFact app, built with the new Adobe Flash Builder and Flex updates, has really taken off. We learned yesterday that it was listed as the number one news app (number 78 overall currently) in the iTunes Store!

Created by the Pulitzer Prize-winning St. Petersburg Times, PolitiFact features the Truth-O-Meter, rating the accuracy of statements made by lobbyists, Congress, the President and other political gadflies. From a development standpoint, the app only took three weeks to build because the new Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Flex updates helped the developers use the same content, data and logic from the existing website.

PoltiFact is now available on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS. To learn more about the app, check it out here. Congrats, guys!

BlackBerry @ Adobe MAX: Lets get started with the BlackBerry PlayBook!

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With the ever expanding breadth of devices supporting the Flash Platform times were never more exciting for Flash and Web developers. One such game changing device is the BlackBerry PlayBook which was recently unveiled at the BlackBerry Developer Conference here in San Francisco.

With it’s industry-leading hardware, reliable and secure BlackBerry Tablet OS and it’s out of the box support for Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR, the PlayBook provides brand new possibilities for rich internet applications both inside and outside the browser.  It’s unlikely that you missed the announcement but here is a sneak peak at the PlayBook:

Research in Motion (RIM) is one of the Platinum Sponsors at Adobe MAX this year and will be hosting a set of in-depth sessions on how to start developing AIR applications and web content for the PlayBook. RIM will also host a session about AppWorld and the application monetization opportunities it opens up for both Flash and Web developers. Hope to see you at MAX and specifically at some (or all!) of these sessions:

Developing Adobe AIR apps for the BlackBerry® Tablet OS
Speaker: Julian Dolce, QNX
Time: Monday Oct 25 2pm, Wednesday Oct 27 3.30pm

Join Julian as he takes you through the process for creating Adobe® AIR applications for the BlackBerry Tablet OS. During the session Julian will show off some of the key features of the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK, as well as how to publish apps for it. This session will give you all the information you need to know to start creating AIR applications for the platform.

[Register for Julian’s Session http://bit.ly/aB7CCV ]

How to monetize your apps on the BlackBerry® PlayBook
Speaker: Mike Kirkup, Director of Developer Relations – RIM
Time: Tuesday Oct 26 1.30pm
Learn how BlackBerry® App World can be used to deliver your applications to users and make you money. During the sessions you will learn the how to leverage BlackBerry App World as a channel to reach BlackBerry PlayBook users. For once you have acquired customers for your applications, learn how you can make additional revenue with the BlackBerry Payment SDK.

[Register for Mike’s Session http://bit.ly/9pHg0f ]

The Power of BlackBerry® WebWorks
Speaker: Prosanta Bhattacherjee, Application Development Consultant – RIM
Time: Wednesday Oct 27 9.30 am
BlackBerry WebWorks open the doors of BlackBerry Development to web developers enabling them create standalone applications on BlackBerry devices. Join Prosanta Bhattacharjee in discovering what the BlackBerry WebWorks framework is, what a BlackBerry WebWorks application is capable of, and how you can leverage the framework to create a deployable web app to distribute to your users.

[Register for Prosanta’s Session http://bit.ly/9s9fDL ]

See you at Adobe MAX!

RIM’s new Blackberry Tablet OS Supports Both Adobe AIR and Flash Player

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Today at BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco, RIM unveiled a new Blackberry Tablet OS, which will come integrated with Flash Player 10.1, Adobe AIR as well as Adobe Reader. It is important to note that not just apps but the browser and apps launcher, essentially the entire UI of the BlackBerry Tablet OS are all built on Adobe AIR.

It is great news for the Flash Platform developers who will be able to create new AIR apps that can take advantage of new UI controls and system extensions of the upcoming BlackBerry Tablet OS, repackage their existing AIR apps easily for the new Tablet OS, and distribute them through BlackBerry App World.

RIM will be making the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK available in the coming weeks. The SDK contains necessary component packages, UI libraries, extensions to Adobe Flash Builder and Flash Professional, packager tool, code signing tool, and simulator needed to test, simulate, develop, package and sign AIR apps that will on the BlackBerry Tablet OS. Developers can sign up for an Early Access Program to get the SDK at http://www.blackberry.com/developers/tabletos

A new version of Adobe AIR SDK will also be made available on Adobe Labs in the coming weeks. In the meantime, developers can begin learning about ActionScript development using Adobe Flash Builder at http://www.adobe.com/go/bbtabos. Stay tuned for more news at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles on October 23-27.