Flashcomguru.com: Breezo: Apollo Explained

Posted At : July 5, 2006 11:35 AM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: Adobe AIR

Here is what I think is the best overview and explanation of Apollo to date. I myself have struggled to fully understand what Apollo is, what it will be capable of and how it will help me as a developer. This Breezo sums Apollo up very nicely. You should seek about 15 minutes into the presentation if you want to go straight to the Apollo content.

Exciting times ahead! I love the idea of being able to build desktop apps using web technologies - maybe that's because web technologies is all I know ;-)

I feel overwhelmed, in a good way. Not only are we being handed Flex2 and Flash9/AS3 but Apollo is also scheduled to be released for preview on Labs later this year(!) with a version 1.0 out in 2007.

And who knows, maybe Adobe is working on FMS3. And if they are I would bet they will add AS3 support. One can wish.

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Nice Writeup on Apollo at The Register (March 31, 2007)
Apollo Now Live on Labs (March 19, 2007)

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I can't wait Apollo on the Labs :)
ciao

http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/apollo/index.html...

# Posted By Marco Casario | 7/5/06 12:27 PM

Isn't this a lot like Central? I wonder what happened to that application?

# Posted By Todd Coulson | 7/5/06 2:10 PM

I don't think Central will be going anywhere, but that's fine as I guess Adobe was just dipping their toes in the water. Apollo however is not a substitute for Central nor is it a Central 2.0, in fact it does not have very much in common with Apollo when you look closely. Could Central handle HTML, JS, AJAX, PDF? Did it leverage AS3?

What's more I have a feeling that Apollo will penetrate much deeper and quicker than Central, Adobe will make sure of that - and remember, Central was 'just' a playground for developers whereas Apollo will be a heavily consumer facing runtime.

# Posted By stoem | 7/5/06 3:10 PM

I can really see these applications and I know several projects I would be interested in using Apollo with, I really can't wait...

# Posted By Niklas Bivald | 7/24/06 12:58 PM

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