Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by diwank » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 8:37 AM UTC

Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers
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Re: Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by istvanp » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 10:17 AM UTC

I gave it a quick spin[1] but was a little disappointed that it needed to manually be reconnected to the remote inspector on every page change. It's also completely missing the Network stuff. That said, debugging CSS with this works great.

Interesting side note: it's apparently using weinre[2] as the remote inspector.

[1] Download from here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/shadow.html

[2] http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/

Edit: as I understand, the limitations come from weinre because it's JavaScript based on the client side.

Re: Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by dutchbrit » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 10:37 AM UTC

What always amazes me is that companies like Adobe launch a new product, but don't bother registering the domain - adobeshadow.com (DOH!!) - guess because it's a free product?

Re: Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by eazy_osm » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 11:11 AM UTC

Y no linux? :/

Re: Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by 5h » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:01 PM UTC

I've given it a quick go & am very impressed, relatively smooth experience for a just-launched product, remote inspection, manipulation & js console is great

... tied up with selenium or similar to drive more complex interactions on my desktop browser & have them mirrored by pushing javascript to my phone, could make this a very powerful change.

edit: misread istvanp

Re: Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by Ecio78 » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:06 PM UTC

dutchbrit wrote: post #3

What always amazes me is that companies like Adobe launch a new product, but don't bother registering the domain - adobeshadow.com (DOH!!) - guess because it's a free product?

Maybe because in this way they have something to occupy the time of their legal department (suing you, of course :D)

Re: Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by lucian1900 » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:47 PM UTC

So basically weinre + auto reloading, but for some reason not supporting Linux.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 1:26 PM UTC

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Re: Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by wtdominey » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 1:50 PM UTC

Gave it a go. Everything connected fine, but in my test it can't resolve to a local hostname. So the stuff I'm developing locally doesn't display, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Re: Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

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Post by MatthewPhillips » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 2:01 PM UTC

5h wrote: post #5

I've given it a quick go & am very impressed, relatively smooth experience for a just-launched product, remote inspection, manipulation & js console is great ... tied up with selenium or similar to drive more complex interactions on my desktop browser & have them mirrored by pushing javascript to my phone, could make this a very powerful change. edit: misread istvanp

I'm not near a computer I can test this on, does it allow you to remotely debug javascript? Does it allow you to do so in multiple browsers (For example on Android you have Android Browser, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera as different rendering engines)?