Adobe AIR Overview

AIR 101 Web Directions North 08 Andre Charland, Nitobi andre@nitobi.com Monday, February 4, 2008

About Me Andre Charland Co-Founder/CE0 @ Nitobi Usability & RIA Focus Author, Blogger, Skier Monday, February 4, 2008

About Nitobi Ajax and Flex Components and Services Founded in 1998 Revenue funded Over 1000+ customers worldwide 12 Employees Vancouver, BC Monday, February 4, 2008

Customers Monday, February 4, 2008

AIR? Cross OS Runtime Web developers can build desktop apps Supports: Flash, Flex, HTML, PDF, JavaScript Totally Free OS Level APIs Monday, February 4, 2008

AIR APIs and Features File I/O Local Storage Native Windowing System Notiﬁcations Menuing Auto Updates Online/Ofﬂine SQL Lite Database Detection Background Chrome Control Processes Monday, February 4, 2008

Neat Things... Call ActionScript directly from JavaScript HTML content in Flash Badge Install Air Aliases.js Use ActionScript Libraries Keyboard Shortcuts Monday, February 4, 2008

Technicalities Flash 9 WebKit (Safari) - Not a Browser Windows, Mac (Linux Coming Soon!) Not a Plug-In AIR is not Flex, Ajax, Flash...it’s a run-time Monday, February 4, 2008

How To’s Flex Builder 3 HTML/Ajax Monday, February 4, 2008

Application Descriptor File <?xml version=quot;1.0quot; encoding=quot;UTF-8quot;?> <application xmlns=quot;http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0.M6quot;> <id>samples.flex.HelloWorld</id> <version>0.1</version> <filename>HelloWorld</filename> <initialWindow> <content>HelloWorld.swf</content> <visible>true</visible> <systemChrome>none</systemChrome> <transparent>true</transparent> <width>400</width> <height>200</height> </initialWindow> </application> Monday, February 4, 2008

File I/O • Setup a File object var myFile:File = File.appStorageDirectory; myFile = myFile.resolve( “contacts.xml” ); • Instantiate and FileStream object var myStream:FileStream = new FileStream(); • Setup the appropriate event listeners myStream.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, doReadData ); • Call FileStream.open() or FileStream.openAsync() with the appropriate m myStream.openAsync( myFile, FileMode.READ ); • Call the appropriate read and write methods • Close the ﬁle using FileStream.close() myStream.close(); Monday, February 4, 2008

Windowing Create a new Native Window var options:NativeWindowInitOptions = new NativeWindowInitOptions(); options.systemChrome = NativeWindowSystemChrome.STANDARD; options.transparent = false; var newWin:NativeWindow = new NativeWindow(options); Window Size: var maxOSSize:Point = NativeWindow.systemMaxSize; var minOSSize:Point = NativeWindow.systemMinSize; Monday, February 4, 2008

Service Monitor Include the external SWF Library <script type=quot;application/x-shockwave-ﬂashquot; src=quot;servicemonitor.swfquot;></script> Check for the availability of a particular URL var monitor; function checkURLStatus(url) { ! var req = new air.URLRequest(url); ! monitor = new window.runtime.air.net.URLMonitor(req); ! monitor.pollInterval = 5000; ! monitor.addEventListener(air.StatusEvent.STATUS, showStatus); ! monitor.start(); Monday, February 4, 2008

Snitter http://snook.ca/snitter/ Monday, February 4, 2008

Scrutinizer http://about.stompernet.com/scrutinizer Monday, February 4, 2008

Analytics Reporting http://analytics.boulevart.be/ http://analytics.boulevart.be/ Monday, February 4, 2008

Opportunities Companion Applications API Libraries File Libraries Advanced features – syncing, etc.. Casual games Downloadable games Monday, February 4, 2008

Usability Gotchas Keyboard shortcuts (tab, enter…) Throbbers / Activity indicators – no spinner Allow text to be copied Add functions for minimize, move, resize, close when ‘chromeless’ Mouse hints, invitations, tool tips Monday, February 4, 2008

Limitations in 1.0 No support for hardware acceleration (3D games, video compositing tools, video encoders, etc) No access to native libraries (DLLs, etc) Cannot connect to devices (other than web cams and microphones) Accessibility support is limited Printing support is limited Limited localization in 1.0 Monday, February 4, 2008

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