AIR 1.0
After one and a half years of development, three betas and a lot of great beta-applications ADOBE released the cross plattform AIR with a ton of other updates including FLEX 3 and the FLEX Builder 3.
It is a great day today. ADOBE released the final version of AIR, a cross plattform, which allows web developers create desktop applications.
AIR connects the internet with the desktop and is a standard plattform for all web developers (HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, Flex..). If you develop an AIR application, you don't have to bother about browser or javascript versions. You have one plattform, which works on Windows, Apple and Linux the same way.
The interesting thing are the technical details of AIR:
- integrated webbrowser (based on webkit)
- local database
- file system access
- network detection
- application update
- drag and drop
For developing you just need to download the free AIR 1.0 SDK. For Dreamweaver and Flash CS3 there are plugins available, which makes compiling AIR applications very easy.
To run AIR applications on your computer you download the Adobe AIR Installer and you can try out a bunch of amazing desktop applications.
On the 31st of march the on Air Tour starts in Madrid. A group of ADOBE AIR evangelists will tour through Europe, holding presentations about AIR and making a lot of interesting workshops.
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