2. Who is this guy?
■ Freelance Flash Platform Consultant
■ Adobe Community Expert
■ Adobe Certified Instructor
■ Author of quot;Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0quot;
and several other Flash Platform books
3. What is AIR?
Adobe® AIR™ is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web
application developers to use their existing web development skills
(HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Flex™, Ajax) to build and
deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
Adobe AIR brings your Rich Internet Applications to the Desktop — Flash,
HTML/AJAX and PDF running as a native application.
5. What will we talk about?
■ Network monitoring
■ Windowing API
■ HTML support
■ FileSystem access
■ SQLite database
■ Drag 'n drop support
■ Clipboard access
■ Update API
6.
7. How do you build it?
■ Flex Builder
■ Flash CS3
■ Dreamweaver CS3
■ your favorite text editor…
The AIR runtime is free of charge,
authoring applications is free!
10. HTML support
mx.controls.HTML
■ WebKit HTML engine embedded
■ Rendered as part of the Flash display list
■ Script bridging
003_HTML
003_HTML displaylist
13. Drag 'n drop support
flash.desktop.NativeDragManager
■ drag between AIR and native apps
■ accepts different formats
■ define a drag out image
006_DragDrop
15. Update API
flash.desktop.Updater
■ AIR runtime handles updates
■ Updater class allows self-updating
■ Requires an online resource to check
008_Update
16. Wanna learn more?
■ on AIR tour coming to Europe
■ April 4th - Amsterdam
■ April 7th - Brussels
onair.adobe.com
■ www.adobe.com/devnet/air
17. Q&A
■ What do you think?
■ What features are you most excited about?
■ What is still missing?