Natural User Interface
Natural user interface, or NUI, is the common parlance used by designers and developers of computer interfaces to refer to a user interface that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible with successive learned interactions, to its users. The word natural is used because most computer interfaces use artificial control devices whose operation has to be learned. A NUI relies on a user being able to carry out relatively natural motions, movements or gestures that they quickly discover control the computer application or manipulate the on-screen content. The most descriptive identifier of a NUI is the lack of a physical keyboard and/or mouse.
Google Tablet with Android & Flash Player
That’s right, there will finally be a tablet device that allows you to view the internet in it’s entirety. Check out this article over at Zedomax.com about the Google Tablet running Android with Adobe AIR and Flash Player 10.
Rotten Apple
The new iPhone 4.0 SDK language appears to make creating applications in any non-Apple-approved languages a violation of terms. What this means is that Apple isn’t going to allow any apps developed on or in any other platform into the App Store. Yet another blow to the Adobe Creative Suite 5; which made major changes to the Flash application to make creating iPhone Apps a possibility for non Apple developers. Adobe has acknowledged the change to the New York Times, but doesn’t have any change in plans just yet.
I would love to say that I’m shocked about this, but sadly I’m not. In fact, I would expect nothing less from a company who holds such tight reigns over developers and employees.
Apple may make some of the coolest products on the market, but their leadership is absolutely LAME!
Adobe Air® 2.0 + Native Applications!
We’ve been working on an Adobe Air® application for quite some time called LiteFile® and production came to a slow halt when the need for launching Native Applications started to sour our love for Air. But with the new version of Air, we hope the affair will rekindle. I’ve downloaded the beta and worked through the tutorial by Adobe’s Jeff Swartz; now all that remains is applied usage! I’m really excited about this for two reasons.
