Eskimo 1.0 is out

Hi everyone,
 
Here is the 1.0 release of eskimo for Flex 4.6. You can download it from the website.
The sources are still available on GitHub. Feel free to fork eskimo. Here is the GitHub repository.

As announced few weeks ago, Eskimo is now available under LGPL licence. Feel free to use it on your mobile application.

1.0 Release Notes :

Fix
  • Section List:  Black rectangle on item renderer.
  • Skinnable Alert: Position of the alert was bad after resize of the view.
  • Skinnable Alert: Buttons respect platform display order.
  • Combo Box:  Bug with null selected item.
  • Combo Box: Display issue  when the keyboard is displayed.
  • List Weel: Accept arrays for dataProvider.
  • Google Map: Compatible with Air 3.0.
  • Form : Optimized performance.
  • Form Item: Error on validation.
  • Page Indicator: Improve performance and refactoring.
  • Deletable List: Optimization of the effect on the delete icon.
  • Date Chooser: Improve performance.
  • List Weel: Improve performance.

New features
  • Breadcrumb: Specify a view navigator and the breadcrumb automatically displays the hierarchy of the views

We hope you enjoyed.
- The Eskimo Team
Posted Il y a 5 mois

Eskimo is now totally free

Good news everyone,
 
Last week was full of announcements. No need to linger, lots of articles were already posted about it. The important things is that Adobe is still engaged on Flex and that the community will take an important place on its evolution.
 
We believe that for mobile development, Flash and Flex are here to stay. Today it’s the best multi-Platform solution, the closest to native apps in terms of performance and features. So it is logical that Adobe announce that Air will be at the heart of their mobile strategy. To be convinced, just look to Adobe Touch Apps. Right now it will depend on us (developers of the Flash/Flex community) to improve it, to make great components and native extensions to keep Flex and Air at the top of mobile multi-Platform solutions.
 
Few weeks ago, we announced our pricing for Eskimo. Many of you provide us feedback. We understood that it was not exactly what you expected. Taking into account your feedback and the decision of Adobe to put Flex open sources, we decided to release Eskimo as a fully free library under LGPL license. It is our first action to collaborate to the growth of the open sourced Flex. We are really excited to participate to the future of Flex.
 
The 1.0 release will come beginning of December, after the release of Flex SDK 4.6 by Adobe. It comes with some optimisations, bug fixes and a new component, the breadcrumb.

Hope you enjoy it.

The eskimo team.

Posted Il y a 6 mois

The business model of Eskimo

We decided to release Eskimo as a fully free library under LGPL license. For more info : http://blog.e-skimo.com/post/13114065911/eskimo-is-now-totally-free

Eskimo 1.0 will be out in a few days. It is  ready for prime time as we have defined our business model.

Eskimo will stay free for applications licensed under GPL or developed by a solo developer. In all other cases, Eskimo 1.0 will be available through a commercial license. 

The commercial license works as an annual subscription per application using Eskimo which includes:

  • Right of use (without any restrictions about how many developers are using it)
  • Corrective maintenance
  • New releases
  • 3 hours of technical support (by phone or email)

The price is defined regarding the number of components used by your application:

  • 1 to 3 components: 1 500 Euros per year
  • 4 to 10 components: 3 000 Euros per year
  • More than 10 components: 5000 Euros per year

Please note that we are now working very closely with Adobe to ensure that Eskimo components and Flex mobile components are totally complementarity.

- The Eskimo Team

Posted Il y a 7 mois

Eskimo 0.9.5

Hi everyone,

Here is the 0.9.5 release of eskimo. You can download it from the website.

We also put the sources on GitHub. Feel free to fork eskimo. Here is the GitHub repository.

At the end of october we will release the 1.0. The main concern of this version will be to optimise skins and to provide the business model.

0.9.5 Release Notes :

Fix

  • Compatibility with BlackBerry PlayBook: All components are now working on the playbook.
  • Deletable list: We had an issue on scrolling, when the list was on editable mode.
  • List Wheel: We optimized the list wheel.
  • DateChooser iOs: We optimized the date chooser for iOs.
  • ComboBox: We added the prompt property.
  • SlideDataGroup: We optimized the component. Now virtualized.

New features

  • SplitView Application: It is a pattern that you can use on Tablet Application. On landscape orientation you have two panes. A small one on the left, allowing to display a list of items. A large one on the right allowing to display the details of selected item on the left. On portrait orientation, the left pane disappears. It’s available on a popOver when you click on a button of the actionBar.
  • Google Map: The AS3 Google Map API does not works for mobile. We made a full flex usable component that encapsulate the javascript api.
  • Toast notification: This is an android pattern. A toast notification is a message that pops up on the surface of the window. It automatically fades in and out.
  • Section list: A list that allows you to group items. For exemple if you want to display a contact list, you want to group items by the first letter of the name.
  • Carousel: A simple carousel optimized for mobile usage.

We hope you enjoyed.

- The Eskimo Team

Posted Il y a 8 mois

lifesblr a demandé: Very cool new features you've got! I like the SplitView you guys did, simply awesome. Will a sample code be released anytime soon? Thanks and great job! (:

First, thanks you for your feedback. The splitView will be available with the 0.9.5 release  by the end of september.

Posted Il y a 8 mois

What’s coming in September

Hi everyone,

We first want to thanks everybody for your feedback on Eskimo. You gave us good advices on how to improve the library. For those that have not already given their feedback, you can use our uservoice.

We already took into account some of your remarks. Today we want to show you what will be available in the next release, coming in middle of September.

Fix

  • Compatibility with BlackBerry PlayBook: All components are now working on the playbook.
  • Deletable list: We had an issue on scrolling, when the list was on editable mode.
  • List Wheel: We optimized the list wheel.
  • DateChooser iOs: We optimized the date chooser for iOs.
  • ComboBox: We added the prompt property.

New features

  • SplitView Application: It is a pattern that you can use on Tablet Application. On landscape orientation you have two panes. A small one on the left, allowing to display a list of items. A large one on the right allowing to display the details of selected item on the left. On portrait orientation, the left pane disappears. It’s available on a popOver when you click on a button of the actionBar.
  • Google Map: The AS3 Google Map API does not works for mobile. We made a full flex usable component that encapsulate the javascript api.
  • Toast notification: This is an android pattern. A toast notification is a message that pops up on the surface of the window. It automatically fades in and out.
  • Grouped list: A list that allows you to group items. For exemple if you want to display a contact list, you want to group items by the first letter of the name.
  • Carousel: A simple carousel optimized for mobile usage.

We invite you to take a look at the demo of the Split View Application and the Google Map Component



We hope you enjoyed it, stay tuned.

- The Eskimo Team

Posted Il y a 9 mois

E-skimo is open source!

Hello everybody,

Thanks for your early support to the project. We are very happy that Eskimo is so well welcomed by the flex community.

We’ve started to harvest your feedback. And… we’ve just decided to give you the source code earlier than we initially plan to deliver it (i.e. september).

So there is a new release available of Eskimo (0.9.1) which includes one new big feature: the source code.

You asked us also some questions about the licensing of Eskimo. At now, we delivered a preview version of the components. So that is the same for the license :)

At now, you can use freely this a preview version without any restriction. 

For the v1.0 we are thinking to deliver Eskimo through a dual license (open source / commercial).

Let us know what you think about that dual licensing mode.

You can download Eskimo 0.9.1 here. Enjoy!

Posted Il y a 10 mois