Archive for the ‘AIR’ Category

Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 Released

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Flash Player 10.1

Some of Flash Player 10.1 new features…

  • Consistent development and delivery
  • Global error handling
  • Designed for mobility
  • Expanded options for high quality media delivery

    • Download Flash Player 10.1

    AIR 2

    Some of AIR 2 new features…

  • Native Process API
  • Open documents with the user’s default application
  • Microphone data access
  • Mass storage device detection
  • Updated, faster WebKit with enhanced support for HTML5 and CSS3
  • Multi-touch
  • New networking support including UDP and server sockets
  • Screen reader support
  • Reduced CPU usage on idle
  • Up to 30% reduction in memory usage without recompiling an application

    • Download AIR 2
    Official AIR 2 blog post by Arno Gourdol
    AIR 2 Release Notes (references the list of new features)

    Kudos to both teams and all involved!

    Posted in AIR, ActionScript 3.0 | No Comments »

    Monetizing AIR Applications

    Thursday, October 4th, 2007

    One major drawback I’ve thought about for a while with when it concerns AIR is that you can’t make sellable applications. After all anyone can pass around the SWF, or even decompile it making it dead easy to ‘crack’. With this is mind the only way I could see you being able to monetize an AIR application was through advertising.

    AIRapps.net is working on a solution to this with their E-Commerce Framework for AIR. They have some presentations on Buying and Application and a Payment Widget worth taking look at.

    On a side note how ridiculous is it that Adobe are forcing them to change their name because it has the word ‘AIR’ in the title and they believe it is

    infringing upon the registered trademarks they have secured to protect their use of the name AIR.

    Adobe should chill out!

    Posted in AIR | 17 Comments »

    360Flex Session Notes

    Thursday, August 16th, 2007

    David Coletta is doing a good job of writing up the sessions he’s attended at 360Flex Seattle. Worth a read.

    Posted in AIR, Flex 2.0, Flex 3.0 | No Comments »

    Apollo Alpha

    Monday, March 19th, 2007

    This morning see’s an the long awaited alpha release of Apollo on labs.

    Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

    Also of interest if your looking to play with Apollo is the free PDF download of ‘Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide’.

    Go fill your boots!

    Posted in AIR, Flex 2.0 | 1 Comment »