Apollo 19 Mar 2007 08:21 pm

Apollo Alpha release link roundup

Apollo logoAs you’ve probably heard, we’ve released the first public alpha of the Apollo runtime. Woo-hoo!

If you’re not familiar, Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. I joined the Apollo team in mid-December of 2006 after working as the Sr. Product Manager for Flash for the last three years.

The resulting coverage of our first public release of Apollo has been overwhelming. I thought I would take a minute to list some links to interesting resources, interviews, demos, and press coverage.

Learning more about Apollo

First of all, if you’d like to know what Apollo is, start by watching the video of Adobe’s Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch giving his Apollo overview at our Apollo Camp event last week.

Read Mike Chambers’ LoggedIn article on the Adobe Developer Center

Read Kevin Lynch’s thoughts on the Apollo alpha

Read Kevin Lynch’s article about Apollo in the Adobe Edge newsletter

Check out the “Apollo for Flex Developers” Pocket Guide by O’Reilly in PDF form on the Adobe Developer Center

Apollo Demos

Watch the video of my 6-minute Apollo demo at the DEMO 07 conference in Palm Springs

Watch Mike Chambers and Christian Cantrell demonstrate two Apollo apps that Christian built in the Edge newsletter

Get Started with Apollo

Download Apollo and the SDK

Build your first Apollo app by watching this free training video from Lynda.com, presented by Mike Chambers

Read the Apollo Alpha release notes

Read the Apollo Developer FAQ

Review the Apollo documentation

Watch Mike Chambers “Introduction to Apollo” presentation on Apollo at Apollo Camp

Join the Community

Join the Apollo Coders mailing list to ask questions and learn from others in the community – we participate in this as well

Monitor the Apollo support forum on adobe.com

Track what the community is saying on MXNA using the Apollo smart category

Also track community discussion around Apollo on Technorati

Apollo Examples

Apollo sample applications on Adobe Labs

FineTune Desktop – Teknision

FotoBooth example – EverythingFlex.com

Grabit HTML example – EverythingFlex.com

Fullscreen Papervision with Transparency example – theflexblog.com, Lee Brimelow

3D Web Apollo Application – theflexblog.com, Lee Brimelow

Press coverage

Anil Dash of MovableType goes first because he gave Mike Chambers and I a shout-out :)

You can also track press via Google News or Techmeme

And I’ve also been tagging press coverage via del.icio.us with “apollopress” – follow it here.

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15 Responses to “Apollo Alpha release link roundup”

  1. on 20 Mar 2007 at 12:38 am 1.Delixe said …

    For anyone interested and concerned with Apollo development a new forum has been launched just for the community, take a look and join in on this new technology–be one of the first to soak it up:

    http://www.codeapollo.com

  2. on 20 Mar 2007 at 12:14 pm 2.Sean Moore said …

    Hi Mike,

    Awesome list! Here is a simple example I put together demonstrating Apollo’s ability to write serialized objects to the file system. I thought this would be appropriate to add.

    http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/?p=6

    Regards,

    Sean Moore

    PS: Apollo Camp was awesome. Adobe kicks so much booty for hosting the event! Also, THANK YOU ADOBE for the copy of Flex Builder!!!!!!

  3. on 21 Mar 2007 at 10:24 am 3.Rostislav Siryk said …

    Hi, I’ve made my own Apollo 3D test.
    It utilizes Google Maps, Papervision3D, and Apollo Alpha HTML component to create the interactive 3D representation of Google Maps (it is draggable in 3D). Actually, any web page can be rendered by this app. There’s two options — planar and spherical view and possibility to load any location.

  4. on 11 Apr 2007 at 11:24 am 4.hamid said …

    Mike, Your apollo team has done a great job. However, there is only one big issue with apollo right now: it does not run within the browser and that is an extremely important missing feature. The definition of apollo needs to be changed to “Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime … to build and deploy applications to the desktop” not “RIA”. Applications running on the desktop can be Rich (GUI-based) and can connect to the internet. On the other hand, RIA are GUI applications that run within the browser itself. It is very misleading to say that Apollo is about RIA. Flex is about RIA, not apollo. The day when the apollo runtime could run within the browser (as an addon, the same way the flash player run within a browser), then we can say apollo is about RIA.
    There is a big need for combining Flex, HTML and PDF within the same application. Flex cannot handle HTML and PDF. So we were hoping apollo was going to address this issue, but then apollo turned out to be only for the desktop. This was a big disappointment because the problem of combining HTML, PDF, and Flex within an application that run WITHIN the browser is still open. I hope apollo team will address this big issue by making apollo runtime run within the browser (of course in this case the I/O API cannot be used, but who cares about manipulating the local filesystem. Combining HTML and Flex within the browser is far more important).

    Thanks,

    Hamid.

  5. on 17 Apr 2007 at 10:59 am 5.apolloranch said …

    My apologies if this borders on spam, but I know a lot of us missed out on the sold-out ApolloCamp last month, so you might consider the upcoming ApolloRanch in Boulder, Colorado May 5th. Similar information, all new demo apps — really cool stuff.

    http://apolloranch.eventbrite.com/

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