Building Rich User Interfaces with Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com

Developers

Markus Spohn: Director of Product Management, salesforce.comJames Ward, Technical Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc.

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Agenda

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com Overview

What’s new in the GA release?

Demo Time

The future of Adobe Flex and AIR

Demo Time

What’s next?

Q&A

Markus Spohn

Director of Product

Management, salesforce.com

What You Will Get Out of This Session

How to build Rich Internet Applications that run on

Force.com– Rapid Salesforce Look-and-Feel UI development

– Work Online and Offline

Build applications once and deploy them to

8 different platforms!

The Salesforce Real-Time Cloud

Adobe Flash Platform

Introducing…

Adam Caplan, CEO

Available for download at developer.force.com/flashbuilder

Web Service APISmart Sync

Flash AIR

Flash Builder Force.com Discovery

& Introspection

Force.com Data Service Adapter

ideForce.com UI components

Conflict Resolution UI

Admin Console

Data Management Services

Local Data Store

Offline Adapter

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.comHigh-level Architecture

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.comHow it works…

Developer Benefits

Single Eclipse®-based IDE

Powerful code-editor and design-

view

Pre-built Force.com UI

components and data

visualizations

Pre-built data management and

data synchronization

Develop once on Force.com and

deploy in the browser (Flash) or

on the Desktop (AIR)

Run in the cloud

Adobe Flash Builder Force.com IDE

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.comIntegrated, Eclipse-based IDE

Deploy app to Force.com

Access it from the browser

Access it fromthe Desktop

What’s new in the GA release?

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com GA

Support for Desktop (AIR) and Web (Flex) applicationsAbility to deploy the same application to the browser and the Desktop

Support for dynamic schema changesData Synchronization and UI logic automatically adapts to metadata changes in Salesforce (e.g., new custom fields)

EntityContainer UI ComponentRenders the entire Detail page for an sObject with a single line of code in your MXML code – similar to the detailPage VisualForce component

Demo Time!

But What If…

You Could Also Deploy These Apps to Mobile Devices?

Adobe Flash Builder Force.com IDE

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com

Deploy app to Force.com

Access it from the browser

Access it fromthe Desktop

Access it fromMobile Devices

Android 2.2Blackberry PlaybookiOS

Technical Evangelist,

Adobe Systems

James Ward

Native Applications

NativeApp

NativeApp

NativeApp

NativeApp

NativeApp

NativeApp

iOS

Abstraction Layer

iOS

Flex Application

Flash Player AIR

Multi Screen: Same Programming Model, Same Tools, Same Code

Applications becoming available on exploding number of devices

Trend is to build “standalone apps” as opposed to “browser apps”

Building native apps for each device is unsustainable for most organizations

Flash provides abstraction layer on top of all these devices 

MXML and ActionScript

XML/HTTPREST

SOAP Web Services

XML/HTTPREST

SOAP Web Services

How Flex Works

BrowserBrowser

Force.comForce.com

Flash Player

Web ServerWeb Server

Existing Applications and InfrastructureExisting Applications and Infrastructure

Flex Builder IDEFlex Builder IDE

Flex SDKFlex SDK

MXMLMXML ActionScriptActionScript

Flex Class LibraryFlex Class Library

.swf

Compile

.swf

HTTP/S AMF/S RTMP/SSOAP

Adobe AIRAdobe AIR

App.apk

App.air

Android Market

Android Device

App.ipkiTunes App

Store

App.barBlackBerry App

WorldRIM

Device

Deploying AIR Mobile Applications

iOS Device

s:Application s:TabbedMobileApplication s:MobileApplication

Demo Time!

What’s Next?

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com v1.1 New Aloha skin for UI components

i18n Localizations

Out-of-the-box support for creating Master/Detail relationships when offline

Add Related Lists, Support for RecordTypes to EntityContainer component

Support for relationships in F3 SOQL

New ListView UI component

OAuth 2.0

Adobe Flash Builder Force.com Mobile Edition Based on Flash Builder 5 and Flex 4.5

Learn more…

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com

Download today at developer.force.com/flashbuilder

Adobe Flash Builder “Burrito” Preview

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder_burrito

Mobile App Development with Adobe Flex SDK“Hero”

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/mobile/

Question & Answer

Markus SpohnDirector of Product Management

James WardTechnical Evangelist

Key Take Aways

Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com combines the best

of all worlds!– Powerful development tools

– Pre-build data synchronization for Offline access

– Pre-build UI components

– Deploy to the Browser

– Deploy to the Desktop

– Deploy to 6 different Mobile platform!

– Run your apps in the Cloud!

Building Rich User Interfaces with Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com

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