So the new Adobe Flash Professional CC looks great, but alas, support for Flash Lite has been dropped. Those still wanting to view and edit FL content will need to keep Flash Pro CS6 installed. Hey at least all your old AdobeExchange extensions (add stop frames / organize library) will work.
I still find myself doing some Flash Lite work every now and then - and I do miss the ease of design and those days of a designer and coder working in the same app, seeing each others process. I think we will have to wait a couple of years before we get back to the ease of mobile development we had inside the Flash IDE - most of the problems one experienced were mostly bugs in the players implemented by Nokia. I have been playing around a lot with Lua (Corona), and HTML5/Javascript frameworks, though both of these are exciting, the development process is quite tedious and I do feel that waiting for the next generation of content development IDE's might be worth it - or for the HTML5 browser-wars to cool down.
In terms of HTML5/Javascript, I found Webstorm to be really amazing. I have been having fun playing around with different languages & frameworks - getting closer to the perfect match in terms of ease of development and platform support - if you are playing around with lots of languages and want to use the same IDE for everything I can also recommend Intellij IDEA Ultimate - it kind of feels like the Photoshop of IDE's to me and it's rock solid + you can theme the whole thing black. Huge strides are being made by small developers, let's hope one of them can reach a decent level of maturity.
I still find myself doing some Flash Lite work every now and then - and I do miss the ease of design and those days of a designer and coder working in the same app, seeing each others process. I think we will have to wait a couple of years before we get back to the ease of mobile development we had inside the Flash IDE - most of the problems one experienced were mostly bugs in the players implemented by Nokia. I have been playing around a lot with Lua (Corona), and HTML5/Javascript frameworks, though both of these are exciting, the development process is quite tedious and I do feel that waiting for the next generation of content development IDE's might be worth it - or for the HTML5 browser-wars to cool down.
In terms of HTML5/Javascript, I found Webstorm to be really amazing. I have been having fun playing around with different languages & frameworks - getting closer to the perfect match in terms of ease of development and platform support - if you are playing around with lots of languages and want to use the same IDE for everything I can also recommend Intellij IDEA Ultimate - it kind of feels like the Photoshop of IDE's to me and it's rock solid + you can theme the whole thing black. Huge strides are being made by small developers, let's hope one of them can reach a decent level of maturity.