Adobe AIR vs. WorkRamp

I would recommend [Adobe AIR] because it works very well, I just wish there were more resources out there on it to help the onboarding.

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WorkRamp is well suited for Employee Onboarding, Continuous Training, and Ad Hoc training assignments. We specifically use it to roll out training on new products that roll out so that we don't tie up hours of people's time to meet in person and roll it out in a live setting

• Adobe AIR supports a lot of commonly needed features for mobile app development.
• It is fairly stable and consistent once you learn how to use it.
• It is cross-platform and is supported by some useful third-party plugins.

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• Flow of information
• Ease of use
• Segmenting information

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• Over the course of months/years, various security exploits and other issues are discovered and patched in AIR, often requiring you to rebuild and resubmit mobile apps to the various storefronts. This happens often enough that it's worth mentioning as a major con.
• While development on Adobe AIR seems to be fairly constant, there is very little communication between the community and Adobe regarding the future and general support of AIR. The track record of Flash (and particularly Flash Mobile) does not inspire much confidence that Adobe intends to support Flash/AIR for years to come.
• Adobe AIR does not seem to perform as well (in terms of raw performance, memory usage, framerates, responsiveness, etc.) as other hybrid solutions for certain tasks. For example using shaders tends to be experimental still, and graphic/animation intensive projects often require the use of third party frameworks such as Starling.

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• Auto tagging resources by keywords being used can be helpful to the party in charge of maintaining the information.

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Although Adobe AIR is just an SDK without an actual "UI" it's commonly used within Flash, Flash Builder, or FlashDevelop. Considering the integration with Flash IDE, there are very few tools that can compete with its features.

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WorkRamp has allowed us to keep employees up to date on the most recent trainings so that the entire workforce is working on the same information. It has also allowed us to roll out that training on an ad hoc basis vs gathering everyone together for live training, which can be delayed with calendar conflicts

Originally, Adobe AIR was the only game in town, and its blend of flexibility in platforms it could publish to (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), ease of use, and familiarity made it the clear choice. Now Adobe no longer supports it, and we’ve found the transition to Harmon unworkable for us.

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WorkRamp has better user experience and user interface.

• Allows easy porting of functionality and look and feel to many diverse platforms.
• Shorten development and deployment time.
• Reduced training and support costs by re-using common widgets.

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• Increased knowledge for employees
• Shared knowledge for partners
• Quicker onboarding

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