Real World AIR development for iOS

Experience building a large, real iOS app with AIR 3.2.

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1. Real  world  AIR     development  for  iOS   Gavin  Clark   @specialmoves  /  @villaaston  
2.     this  was  wri=en  when  using  AIR  3.2  pre-­‐release     focusing  on  iOS  not  Android      
3. what  did  we  build?  
4. development         why  did  we  use  AIR?  
5. why  did  we  use  AIR?         CMS,  backend,  web  services   web  SWF  to  help  localisaKon  
6. why  did  we  use  AIR?         integraKon  with  Flash  site  
7. why  did  we  use  AIR?         workflow   jenkins,  ota  deployment  was  lovely…  
8. why  did  we  use  AIR?         we  know  Flash   (5  projects  for  the  same  very  short  deadline)  
9. why  did  we  use  AIR?         shut  everyone  up  about  flash  being  a  dying   technology  for  a  few  weeks  while  they  could   play  with  something  on  the  ipad  
10. hardware         the  machine  isn’t  too  hot  
11. the  machine  isn’t  too  hot         there  isn’t  much  memory  
12. development         some  things  don’t  work  very  well  
13. some  things  don’t  work  very  well         packaging  differences   (test-­‐interpreter,  test,  ad-­‐hoc/release)  
14. some  things  don’t  work  very  well         it  takes  ages  a  long  Kme  to  build  and  test  
15. some  things  don’t  work  very  well         changes  between  iOS  versions  
16. some  things  don’t  work  very  well         renderMode  differences  
17. some  things  don’t  work  very  well         it’s  sKll  young  
18. development   some  missing  features  
19. some  missing  features     people  using  it  
20. some  missing  features     memory  warnings  
21. some  missing  features     a  really  good  profiler  
22. some  missing  features     loading  SWFs  with  acKonscript  
23. development         opKmisaKon  
24. opKmisaKon         adding  and  removing  from  memory  
25. opKmisaKon         avoid  memory  fragmentaKon  
26. opKmisaKon         don’t  use  large  SWFs  
27. opKmisaKon       chunk  heavy  tasks  
28. opKmisaKon         adding  and  removing  from  stage   keep  the  display  list  simple  
29. opKmisaKon         loading  from  disk  
30. opKmisaKon         events  
31. opKmisaKon         vectors  
32. opKmisaKon       don’t  force  .gc()  
33.   it  doesn’t  ‘feel’  right           more  iOS-­‐y  
34. retrospecKve         the  good  stuff  
35. the  good  stuff         video  
36. the  good  stuff         cacheAsBitmapMatrix  
37. the  good  stuff       -­‐package  -­‐renderingdiagnosKcs  
38. the  good  stuff         gpu  performance  
39. the  good  stuff        
40. the  good  stuff     stage  3D  
41. retrospecKve       would  we  use  it  again?      
42. retrospecKve       would  we  use  it  again?     yeah  
43. would  we  use  it  again?         faster  than  naKve  development  
44. would  we  use  it  again?         performance  
45. would  we  use  it  again?         android  and  iOS  
46. would  we  use  it  again?         workflow  and  tools  
47. retrospecKve       would  we  use  it  again?     no  
48. would  we  use  it  again?         not  for  a  project  of  that  size