Adobe AIR vs. Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

Adobe AIR

Adobe AIR

67 Reviews and Ratings

Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

13 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe AIR	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A
Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	FoxPro is a programming language and DBMS formerly supported by Microsoft, now at its End of Life.	N/A

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Adobe AIR

Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

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Adobe AIR	Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
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Community Pulse
	Adobe AIR	Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Adobe AIR Jon Marr Owner Chose Adobe AIR Originally, Adobe AIR was the only game in town, and its blend of flexibility in platforms it could publish to (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), ease of use, and familiarity made it the clear choice. Now Adobe no longer supports it, and we’ve found the transition to Harmon unworkable … Incentivized Helpful? MR Marilyn Rodriguez Owner/Art Director Chose Adobe AIR We already use all the other Adobe products so it was an easy choice to use AIR for our programming type of programs. As we used it more, we found that it was very simple to learn/the learning curve was not very steep at all. We honestly didn't look at any other options, … Incentivized Helpful? JM John Mihaila Software Manager Chose Adobe AIR Adobe AIR does not support Windows phones but works well on both Android and Apple iOS. It enables developers to build and deploy good quality applications to mobile platforms for a majority of mobile users and allows developers to build working prototypes in a relatively … Incentivized Helpful? YI Yosef Ing Director of Social Media Chose Adobe AIR There are definitely other platforms out there that are awesome but Adobe AIR is just what our other developers were used to using but we do have some success. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Cookson Junior Animator Chose Adobe AIR Generally stacks up fairly negatively, program definitely has its place, I appreciate what it can allow but now most desktop apps are fine enough as browser based experiences or for personal use mobile is the way to go. Air isn't the best environment for that. Incentivized Helpful? William Alvarez Inside Sales Support Associate Chose Adobe AIR Appcelerator is open source and is very good, but my company wanted something more business-oriented and with more formal support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe AIR Originally, Adobe Air was a great choice for us to build mobile titles from prior web titles when compared to tools such as native iOS with cocos2d. We were able to get games stood up much faster than our competition and out to market to make money. That said, as Unity improved … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Adobe AIR Adobe AIR is more friendly to a serious programmer because it supports core programming methodology in a way that Unity does not. Both AIR and Unity have a hidden underlying layer of event management code that can add performance costs. However, Unity is more friendly to a … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Gorence Software Developer Chose Adobe AIR Since Adobe AIR can be used with the Flash IDE, there are not many other solutions with such a robust toolset. The ability to import layered photoshop files directly onto the stage, and then ability to animate and create movieclips within that IDE is an extremely valuable … Incentivized Helpful?	Visual FoxPro (Discontinued) JP Bhatt CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Visual FoxPro (Discontinued) We use VFP because our customers are on VFP. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Visual FoxPro (Discontinued) We are only using FoxPro because it is the only way to add custom plugins into the software we use to manage our stock. FoxPro is a semi-oriented object language and should clearly not be compared with recent technologies. Incentivized Helpful? Peter Heinicke Business Partner Chose Visual FoxPro (Discontinued) FoxPro beats Access in several ways. It is generally faster and leads to more supportable code. FoxPro loses to the programming language C in speed and flexibility. You can run C on almost any platform out there. FoxPro has better report writing and screen development tools … Incentivized Helpful?

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	Adobe AIR	Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Small Businesses	Visual Studio Score 9.1 out of 10	PyCharm Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Visual Studio Score 9.1 out of 10	PyCharm Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Visual Studio Score 9.1 out of 10	PyCharm Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Adobe AIR	Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	5.7 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe AIR	Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe AIR is well-suited for a developer who is already familiar with Flash and AS3. It is well-suited for 2D app development using Starling or another third-party graphics library. However, to be used appropriately and avoid errors and poor performance, a basic understanding of programming principles is needed, so it's not great for a designer who hasn't studied a lot of coding. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	FoxPro is good for data manipulation from files. It is easy to generate/design reports of those data. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Runs on Windows, Mac OS, Android and Apple iOS. Allows developers to use tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Flash Professional and even text editor to develop an app. Adobe AIR runtime and AIR SDK are free. Incentivized JM John Mihaila Software Manager Read full review	Structured language easy access to database. Access to VFP programmers. 3rd party plugins and wizards available that help in application development. JP Bhatt CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Cons	Adobe Air applications are taxing on a user's CPU, especially considering how simple a lot of the apps are. Updating and installing Air based applications is very user unfriendly, often asks for updates that are aggressively pushed to the front of the user. As HTML 5 has gotten more and more sophisticated, for basic things a lot of times browser-based apps make a lot more sense. Incentivized Chris Cookson Junior Animator Read full review	error handling User interface Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Although Adobe AIR is just an SDK without an actual "UI" it's commonly used within Flash, Flash Builder, or FlashDevelop. Considering the integration with Flash IDE, there are very few tools that can compete with its features. Incentivized Thomas Gorence Software Developer Read full review	There are several easy to use and powerful features of VFP that programmers like. JP Bhatt CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Although MS has discontinued support of VFP there is a good community of programmers that are available for help. In fact we have several programmers at Apptread that are skilled not only in VFP but also .NET so that if there is a need to migrate some parts of applications to .NET , it is easy for us to do that. JP Bhatt CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	There are definitely other platforms out there that are awesome but Adobe AIR is just what our other developers were used to using but we do have some success. Incentivized YI Yosef Ing Director of Social Media Read full review	We use VFP because our customers are on VFP. JP Bhatt CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Return on Investment	Using Adobe AIR allows your team to be comprised of Flash/ActionScript 3 developers, which can be easy/cheap to find compared to other disciplines (based on location). This can lower the bottom-line in terms of engineering costs. As the Adobe AIR SDK is free to use, the cost of entry is basically free. Additionally, the Adobe AIR SDK may be used in conjunction with a free IDE, such as FlashDevelop, making the entire stack completely free to use. One negative impact is the stigma against Adobe Flash/AIR. Due to Adobe's less than stellar track record (in terms of support and security) with both Flash and Flash Mobile, there are numerous clients that we've dealt with, that refused to approve Adobe AIR as a tool. Incentivized Thomas Gorence Software Developer Read full review	Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services. Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional. A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers. Incentivized Peter Heinicke Business Partner Read full review
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