Ok, so if I tell you that eyeGT + b.Tween will make it possible to port Flash and FlashLite content to the iPhone/iPod Touch as native applications, you don’t need any more explanation right?
Maybe not, judging from the huge number of emails I’m getting and the posts I read on the various blogs.
The lack of information is completely our fault however….. until today Barefoot Software has been dealing almost exclusively with telecoms and handset manufacturers to deploy custom applications on mobile platforms. We have never had to explain too much detail on our website as executives generally don’t know how to use a web browser right?…. Just kidding of course!!!
Everything started with a very cool application made by Thomas Joos of Boulevart, a mobile guide to the Rock Wechter concert that will take place in Belgium from the 3rd to the 6th of July. Thomas designed and created the original Flash Lite version running on Nokia phones. Using b.Tween it has quickly been adapted and compiled by Barefoot - directly from the Flash Lite version into an iPhone/iPod Touch native application…. we were supposed to just briefly touch on the b.Tween process in this blog as for the moment our main web site is not yet ready to be assaulted by flash and iPhone enthusiasts but Thomas could not resist [bless his soul] and things are now moving very quickly….
What is eyeGT? (short for “Enhance Your Experience - Graphical Toolkit”) - this is explained in the post below but as a short summary: “eyeGT is a highly efficient graphic renderer, capable of handling vector graphics and bitmaps. Beside the basic services of rendering, eyeGT provides a very extensive API that allow to define: buttons, animations, hierarchical containers, color and special effects, static text, editable fields and much more; think about it as a Windows GDI+ or Mac OSX Quartz2D on steroids, heavily optimized and designed from the ground up … for mobile.”
You may have heard a lot about of other toolkits available that perform similar sorts of things on desktop PCs (my favourite is AntiGrain) but eyeGT is very different and not only in terms of speed.