That’s right, you can now get the first public Alpha release of Adobe Apollo. The runtime, SDK, developer downloads, showcase gallery, the whole shebang. It’s available here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/ [1]
Also of note, the official press release from Adobe available here: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200703/031907ApolloLabs.html [2]
There should be tons of chatter and posts over the next few hours and days, so keep an eye on the MXNA agregator, especially the Apollo Smart Category [3]
Apollo Documentation available here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Documentation [4]
You can also grab a PDF version of the O’Reilly Apollo for Flex Developers Pocket Guide [5] by Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon and Jeff Swartz.
Once you’ve got the runtime installed check out some sample applications here: http://www.adobe.com/go/apollo_samples [6] as well as several other now public applications making their way out through MXNA [3].
A nice introduction to building your first Apollo app by Andrew Muller [7] can be found here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Articles:Building_Your_First_Flex-based_Apollo_Application [8]
Via Mike Chambers [9]: “If you want to discuss Apollo application development with other developers, then check out the Apollo Coders mailing list [10].”
Also from Mike Chambers [9] – he spent a couple of days down at the Lynda.com offices to put together a complete video overview / introduction to Apollo and the videos have just been posted. They are available for free from from Lynda.com here: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?id=378 [11] The videos cover everything you need to know to get started with Apollo development.
As an aside, I actually did some training videos for Adobe back in December/January through the fine folks at Lynda.com [12] – I can’t mention what exactly the videos are about until after the 27th of this month, so stay tuned for more info on that.
Vidoes from Apollo Camp are now available at: http://video.onflex.org/ [13]
Great aricle about the Local File System API in Apollo by Darron Schall [14] – read it here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Articles:Apollo_Local_File_System [15]
Great series of entries about Apollo with examples and source by Rich Tretola on his blog [16].
I’ll continue to add more relevant links to this entry as they come my way. More to come…