Today, 2nd of February 2010 Adobe did launch Adobe AIR 2.0 beta 2. The first beta release of AIR 2 was in November 2009 and after 3 months Adobe AIR 2.0 is almost ready for release. Good job AIR team!
Some features and enhancement:
Print Job Enhancements – better control of the way content is printed [...]
On 8th of December 2009 Adobe did release Adobe AIR 1.5.3. This new version includes:
updated version of Flash Player
security updates
bug fixes
Both the runtime and the SDK are available for download. Please read the developer release notes which include critical information that all developers building AIR applications should be sure to read including important information related [...]
Our friend, Mihai Corlan, will host an e-seminar about PHP and Flash Platform, but let me quote him:
“On December 2nd, together with Roy Ganor from Zend Company, I will host an e-seminar about PHP and Flash Platform. We will show you how you can create a Rich Internet Application using the Flex framework, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, [...]
In the last months Adobe AIR Challenge has been taking place. Yesterday we had the final: 3 AIR applications fought for the prizes. Those applications where:
Flair Builder – Cristi Pascu
MiniBuilder – Victor Dramba
Phitodo – Alexandru Ghiura
All three applications did win at least one prize on a category… and the categories where:
User experience and Design
Application Architecture
Novelty/Innovation
Value [...]
Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
Adobe release other two projects into the open source world. We are speaking about: Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) and Text Layout Framework (TLF).
Open Source Media Framework was previously known as Strobe, now is a an open framework for building media players for the Flash Platform. Download it from here and for more information about [...]
A few day ago Adobe launched Wave – a desktop notification system for your favorite websites. To understand it better think about it like an aggregator that keeps together all your favorite social networks and websites.
The application is built using Adobe AIR and connects to different services and alerts you when changes are made or [...]
I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:
How To Add [...]
Today I managed to find this error twice. It is happening in AIR applications. I had the same application in Flex and then I ported it to AIR. The error that appeared is this:
SecurityError: Error #3015: Loader.loadBytes() is not permitted to load content with executable code.
The error is saying that you’re no more allowed to [...]
“Cosmo” is in the nightly builds of Flex SDK! The new AIR 1.5 contains:
Encrypted Local / SQLite databases
Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM
Integration with Flash Player 10
New Text engine
Updated Saffron engine for font rendering
Custom Filters and Effects
3D Effects
Typed Arrays updated
Dynamic video streaming
More about it on Mike Chambers blog.
During last week I had to do a small application for AIR. That was until friday when I had to release it and found out that the app had to work also in normal browser. Since almost all the code was independent of the type of app (AIR/Flex) my task was pretty easy:
Get all existing [...]
In the past days I had to write a small app in AIR and one of the problems I came across was the saving of preferences locally. I needed to be able to read/write a file on the local file system. After some digging I found the answer and decided to make a small tutorial [...]
Last week I tried to convert a small flex 2 application to air. It went pretty smooth with some minor exceptions that were fixed fast. So if you have a flex 2 app and did not do anything fancy in it then it all should work fine.
Keep in mind that flex 3 has some modifications [...]