My work goes live... Cricket / AIR - for Desktop

It was a very tiring past few weeks for me at adobe, Bangalore. With Srini, i also shared some of the tireless nights writing a piece of code to make "Ramesh's dream come true" - idea of watching cricket on desktop that would provide a web 2.0 experience. Moving away from a web 1.0 way of watching cricket in a browser with a refresh rate of the window that sends/recieves packets, this Adobe Cricket AIR Application is really far ahead of all the old technologies.

The UI and the experience of using the application is far far ahead of the regular web version. It does not auto-refresh for the real-time ball-ball update. It works with a Server-Push model where a server update (ball-by-ball update) is pushed to all the clients subscribing to it (all the cricket apps running). This does not leave the over-head of trying to request for a new score with a auto-refresh on the client reducing the load on the client. This is really an awesome mechanism and a very-light-weight mechanism to update.

Lot of cool features... Ball-by-ball update, score card, statistics, profiles, chatting, expressions, quick bowler/batting view, mini scoreboard, real-time alerts for wicket, six, four etc. player statistics, news/information, video watch, feedback/send a friend option and a lot more...

It provides a real way of family watch experience by watching cricket with your friends/collegues/relatives/loved ones, by chatting with them and sharing some thoughts across about the match. The Video pod (i believe) should be in the next version that would go with the app. Most of the code uses the RTMP (Real time message push) model starting from score board updates to the chatting pod..

I am happy for my work going live... Cheers...



Here is where Swaroop and Srini speak about the app..