Ted On Flash: My First Apollo

My First Apollo - TagTV

DIGG IT! 10 Comments Published Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 7:14 AM .

I have been working with Apollo non-stop since Mike Chambers got me an internal build about 2 weeks ago. Apollo just rocks. Even at this early stage, it is by far the easiest way to create real desktop applications. I will be presenting my TagTV application at The Future of Web Apps Summit in San Francisco tomorrow.

TagTV 0.7 Update

Pictures of the Apollo App:

I am working on 2 other Apollo applications for IFBIN 2.0 and one other that should become visible soon. IFBIN 2.0 is coming along well and I should have a beta when Apollo is available on Adobe Labs.

More to come,

Ted :)

10 Responses to “ My First Apollo - TagTV ”

# James Lyon September 12, 2006 7:44 AM

And where can the rest of us drooling flex developers download that interal build ;)

I look forward to more demos
# Ted Patrick September 12, 2006 7:54 AM

No worries, everyone will get their Free version of Apollo in due time! :)

You can build Apollo applications today using Flex. Actually, you can deploy any Flex with zero code changes. There are no code differences other than swapping the Panel (Web) with the Apollo(AppWindow) component and adding an application.xml file.

I was really suprized how easy it was to make.

Cheers,

Ted :)
# Ted Patrick September 12, 2006 7:54 AM

Oh and source code is available for TagTV!! Just right-click, "View Source"

Ted :)
# andrew lucking September 12, 2006 8:22 AM

Cool.

Out of curiosity, are you using any of the Apollo APIs in the install swf?

Thanks,
A.
# Andrew Trice September 12, 2006 10:14 AM

Very nice. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on that free version of Apollo!
# Micha? September 12, 2006 1:19 PM

Apollo has file with extension *.air
this is commprssion file include *.swf *.ico *.xml files.

How does Apollo work with file *.htm ? Has Apollo render html document rely on current browser?

Micha?
# Ted Patrick September 12, 2006 3:30 PM

Michal,

Apollo has its own internal modern compatible browser. It has no dependencies with other browser, read not IE.

In a SWF application, you can embed a browser control within Flex/Flash Content on the DisplayList.

Also the browser is codebase identical across every platform Apollo will support. If you are authoring in AJAX, you get seamless platform compatibility by deploying the the Apollo runtime.

The key is that Apollo lets you reach these platforms with a single codebase. It is productive because you deploy once, use many!

Cheers,

Ted :)
# Scott Barnes September 12, 2006 3:58 PM

You are a liar Ted, i don't believe this is Apollo - nice trickery with Photoshop.

The only way you can proove you aren't lying is to email me a copy. I'm sure I still have NDA in place with Adobe, so i won't tell.. promise.... ;)
# Ted Patrick September 13, 2006 8:52 AM

Oh Scott calling me a liar on my own blog won't get you early access.

Cheers,

Ted :)
# Ian Matheson February 15, 2007 6:48 AM

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