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Previously Adobe had investigated a fork from the Flex framework for mobile applications called Slider. Hero does away with Slider - citing rapid improvements in smart phone technology, the team felt it was more appropriate to deliver a working version of the full SDK rather than a branched version that built on the same principals but had a smaller feature set. Check out Adobe's description of Hero on the labs page for more info on this topic.
Hero is built for the latest version of the Flash and AIR run-times which are currently unreleased. Adobe says that Hero will be officially released into the wild as soon as the new runtimes are distributed.
Full feature specifications for the Hero desktop SDK and Hero mobile SDK can be found on the Hero website. Keep watching this site for future updates as we near the release date.
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The real issue is that Slider was addressing a real problem. Flex optrimization for mobile platforms. It was great that they were not 'forking' the framework, however the reliance on an, as yet, un-released version of Flash is suicidal.
Currently Android 2.2 is just about being deployed onto mobile devices, which means Flash 10.1. If the next Flex framework is not capable of running on Android 2.2 with Flash 10.1, then I, as a developer, will not be using the framework.
They still haven't finished cleaning up some of the bugs in Flex 4.
This really is a case of taking a serious reality check. Flex 4.5/5 should absolutely run on Flash 10.1
I want to deliver my Flex app to the newly released Galaxy Tab and get my business clients really excited.
The direction Flex Hero is taking is extremely disappointing. Do not tie to the next version of Flash. Mobile Flash 10.1 is too important a platform to ignore.