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November 28, 2006
Building Applications for Apollo - Its not rocket science
Mike Chambers gives a great overview of Adobe Apollo in this online Acrobat Connect session. The 45 minute presentation gives an overview of the upcoming runtime from Adobe, including information on APIs that Apollo will provide to developers and several sample applications, including a very cool Flex / Google Maps application that was written by Christian Cantrell (demo at 8:02).
Developing applications for Apollo isn't rocket science. Web developers who are building solutions today with HTML and JavaScript can build applications easily, as will Adobe Flex and ActionScript developers. Apollo will be completely cross platform, and support HTML, Flash / Flex and PDF content natively. The difference between Apollo and regular web applications is that it provides additional APIs to do things that you can't do today, like access to the local file system, working offline etc...
In the session, Mike gives a very cool demo of an advanced music player, that not only plays music and MP3s from your local computer, but integrates with Flickr to display photos for artists from Flickr and with a Lyric wiki, to display lyrics directly in the music player. (Check out the demo at 25:41 to see this in action).
You can find out more about Adobe Apollo from the Developer FAQ on Adobe Labs.
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