AIR for Android: OMG This is Cool!

So I’m writing this post a number of days before I’ll have NDA clearance to publish anything regarding Android for AIR. Just want to record my first impressions here!

Just got my first app running on my Motorola Droid and am so totally psyched about this! It’s actually unbelievably simple to author and package for Android, installation on the device is a snap, and it runs really just as quickly as a native app!

While most contributors in the AIR for Android program seem to be porting their iPhone apps over (very, very easily) – I actually don’t have any mobile applications whatsoever and will be writing everything pretty much from scratch. I have two applications I’m working on right now, one is a screen sketching application and the other is an educational application that allows art history students to casually study images with metadata through a mobile interface. I will be posting videos and writing about each one very, very soon.

Something I was really glad to see is that battery usage is really quite minimal with the applications I’ve been creating so far. Understand that this is all still very early beta stuff… and I’m learning a lot about things specific to mobile development for sure… a truly excellent beginning though- all around.

I know this is a gushing post- but really and truly, we are in for some great times ahead!

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