Adobe® AIR® App Challenge, Sponsored by Sony
About the Sponsors
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. Our award-winning software and technologies have set the standard for communication and collaboration for more than 25 years, bringing vital and engaging experiences to people across media and to every screen in their lives, at work and at play. The impact of Adobe® software is evident almost everywhere you look. Whether people are collaborating at work, transacting online, or socializing with friends, businesses use Adobe software and technologies to turn digital interactions into richer, high-value experiences that reach across computing platforms and devices to engage people anywhere, anytime. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies. Learn more at the Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com
Sony Corporation
Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading electronics and entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $87 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011. Sony Global Web Site: http://www.sony.net/
About the Products
Sony Tablet
Sony Tablet delivers the perfect combination of hardware, content and network with seamless usability for a high-quality, engaging entertainment experience. Based on decades of engineering heritage, Sony is developing two tablets with unprecedented design, including Sony TabletTM S (previously codenamed S1) which is optimized for rich media entertainment and Sony TabletTM P (previously codenamed S2) which is ideal for mobile communication and entertainment. Sony TabletTM S is available for pre-sale now at http://discover.store.sony.com/tablet/ and on shelves in September, while Sony TabletTM P will be available later this year.
Both devices run on Android, Android 3.1 on Sony TabletTM S devices (upgradable to Android 3.2) and Sony TabletTM P devices will be equipped with Android 3.2 by the time they ship. On both tablets users can not only browse the internet or check e-mail but they can also smoothly access digital content including videos, games and books through Sony’s premium network services and more, on-the-go at any time.
Sony TabletTM S has a 9.4-inch display for enjoying the web and rich content on a large screen. Its off-center of gravity design realizes stability and ease of grip as well as a sense of stability and lightness, offering comfortable use for hours. Weighing in at just about 1.33 lbs., its unique asymmetric design allows for hours of comfortable use and built-in Wi-Fi® compatibility means Internet connectivity virtually anywhere there's a hotspot.
Sony TabletTM P has two 5.5-inch displays that can be folded for easy portability. In contrast to existing tablets, its unprecedented dual screen presentation and usability allows its displays to be combined and used as a large screen or for different functions such as playing video on one screen while showing control buttons on the other. With a weight of about 0.83 lbs.,the Sony TabletTM P is both Wi-Fi compatible and 4G capable exclusively on AT&T's mobile broadband network.
Learn more www.sony.com/tablet.
About Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Platform tools
About Adobe AIR
The Adobe AIR runtime enables developers to use HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash Builder or Adobe Flash Professional software, and ActionScript® to build web applications that run as standalone client applications without the constraints of a browser. Adobe AIR provides a consistent and flexible runtime environment for the delivery of applications to smartphones, tablets, desktop computers and televisions. Support for Android™, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS mobile operating systems and televisions is now available.
Learn more www.adobe.com/products/air/
About Adobe Flash Builder
Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 software, formerly Adobe Flex® Builder®, is an Eclipse™ based development tool for rapidly building expressive mobile, web, and desktop applications using ActionScript® and the open source Flex framework.
Learn more www.adobe.com/products/flash-builder.html
About Adobe® Flash® Professional
Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 software is the industry-leading authoring environment for producing expressive interactive content. Create immersive experiences that present consistently to audiences across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions. Flash Professional is ideal for interactive designers, graphic designers, web designers and developers.
Learn more www.adobe.com/products/flash.html
About Adobe Flex SDK
Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive mobile, web, and desktop applications that share a common code base, reducing the time and cost of application creation and longer term maintenance. Flex provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns. MXML, a declarative XML-based language, is used to describe user interface layout and behaviors, and the object-oriented ActionScript® 3.0 programming language is used to create client logic. Flex also includes a rich component library with more than 100 proven, extensible user interface components for both web and mobile applications, plus an interactive Flex application debugger. The Adobe® Flex® 4.5 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes the Flex framework (component class library) and Flex compiler, enabling you to freely develop and deploy Flex applications using an IDE of your choice. While Flex applications can be built using only the free Flex SDK, Adobe® Flash® Builder™ software can accelerate development through features like intelligent code editing, step-through debugging, memory and performance profilers, and visual design.
Learn more www.adobe.com/products/flex/
About Android and Android Market
About Android
Android™ is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system based on the Linux kernel, middleware and key applications. Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance collaborated on Android's development and release. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android.
Android 3.1 is an incremental platform release that refines many of the features introduced in Android 3.0, the first version of the Android platform that is specifically optimized for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. Android 3.1 builds on the same tablet-optimized UI and features offered in Android 3.0 and adds several new capabilities for users and developers.
See also www.android.com/
Android Market
Android Market is an online software store developed by Google for Android devices. An application program ("app") called "Market" is preinstalled on most Android devices and allows users to browse and download apps published by third-party developers, hosted on Android Market. Users can also search for and read detailed information about apps from the Android Market website.
Learn more https://market.android.com/
Android, the Android logo, Android Market, the Android Market logo, Google, the Google Logo, and the Open Handset Alliance are trademarks of Google, Inc.