Adobe announced that it has
acquired privately held Aviary, a developer of mobile SDKs (Software
Development Kits) for the delivery of creative apps. With millions of people already
using Aviary-powered photo-editing apps and thousands of developers using
Aviary’s SDKs, across mobile platforms, the acquisition accelerates Adobe’s
strategy to make Creative Cloud a vibrant platform for third-party apps,
through a new Creative SDK. Currently under development, Adobe Creative SDK is
a software library that enables developers to tap into Adobe’s creative
technologies to build mobile apps and drive new connections between mobile
devices and Adobe Creative Cloud desktop applications and services.
“Aviary has an exceptional team
and technology platform, as well as expertise serving a robust developer
ecosystem. We're thrilled to leverage Aviary's technology to make our Creative
SDK even more powerful for app developers,” said Scott Belsky, vice president
of Creative Cloud Ecosystem & Behance at Adobe. “This is great news for
developers because thousands of mobile apps will have the opportunity to become
compatible with industry-defining desktop tools like Photoshop CC, as well as new
Creative Cloud services."
Adobe Creative SDK gives
third-party developers access to Adobe APIs (Application Programming
Interfaces), previously only available to Adobe’s internal engineering teams.
Examples include: browsing files stored in Creative Cloud; extracting elements
from PSD files; Adobe’s “Touch Slide” software for straight-line drawing; and
cloud image-editing services like Content-Aware Fill and Upright. Adobe
Photoshop Mix, a recently launched mobile app for iOS, utilizes these new APIs
and offers some of Adobe’s best imaging technology for applying Photoshop looks
and compositing images. Adobe Creative SDK is currently being tested by
developers and a beta launch is expected in the coming months.
"Aviary was founded to bring
creative freedom to the world,” said Avi Muchnick, Aviary’s co-founder. “We're
excited to join Adobe and tap into their incredible wealth of creative
technology and supercharge our collective SDK offering. Together, we will help
nurture the next generation of third party creative apps.”
