Thursday, 27 September 2012
Adobe has met with another major addition in the form of Adobe Edge. Edge has been expanded by Adobe to include more tools and services to streamline the web development process. The various tools tackles the task of animating, coding, inspecting and packaging for mobile devices and play well not only together, but with third party applications too.
Amongst the various tools Adobe Edge
Animate takes a key spot as a tool for creating animations for the web.
It has an interactive UI based on WebKit in order to provide maximum fidelity across various popular browsers.
- Edge Reflow allows for the designing and laying out of websites.
Reflow takes full advantage of CSS to create impressive designs along
with an option to export code to etiher Dreamweaver of Edge Code.
- Edge Inspect is an inspection tool for designers to preview and tweak the final HTML code for mobile sites.
- Edge Code is powerful code editor built on the Brackets open
source project optimized to work efficiently with HTML, CSS and
JavaScript.
- Edge WebFonts is a free web fonts service that plugs into an ever-growing online library of open-source fonts.
- PhoneGap Build – A service for packaging mobile apps built with HTML, CSS and JavaSCript for popular mobile platforms.
Adobe Edge Tools & Services are available immediately as part of Adobe Creative Cloud
free and paid memberships. Following an introductory period, Edge
Animate is expected to be priced at US$499 for a perpetual license,
US$14.99 per month for a standalone subscription, and included in a paid
membership to Creative Cloud. Additional capacity for Edge Inspect and
PhoneGap Build is available via standalone subscriptions priced at
US$9.99 per month each and included with a Creative Cloud paid
membership. Typekit paid plans which include more websites, fonts and
page views are available for between US$24.99 per year and US$99 per
year, with the US$49.99 per year Portfolio Plan included in paid
membership to Creative Cloud.
