Multi-Platform App Created Using Single Code Base

andylim writes in with news of a reasonably impressive demonstration of the multi-platform capabilities of Adobe AIR. "Christian Cantrell, a technical product manager at Adobe, has created an app for multiple platforms including OS X, Windows 7, Ubuntu, Android, iPhone OS, and iPad OS. What's amazing is that all the platforms use the same code base. 'The application is called iReverse, and it's a fully functional Reversi game (complete with a pretty decent AI). Although iReverse is fun to play, the most amazing thing about the project is the fact that it runs in all these different environments completely unchanged. In other words, the exact same code base is used to build versions for five different environments. There's no other platform in the world that can boast this level of flexibility — not even close.'" Cantrell says he will open-source the code for iReverse and document how he pulled this off.

Comments

Linux...not Ubuntu

[shinzawai]

I read the article and it says Linux support. At no stage did the page specify flavour. kdawson, Ubuntu does not equate to all of Linux. (It does equate to Linux for the newbie sheep masses).

fuck adobe!!

[perryizgr8]

i installed adobe rreader on my new system and it tried to push AIR alongwith it. Just that made AIR reepulsive enough for me to not install it. why can't you just use cpp? It will work on all linuxes withoutt much modification. And who gives a fuck about windows. And especially since AIR is horrendously inefficient.