This document discusses the new features of Adobe AIR 3.0. It begins with an introduction and overview of supported operating systems which include Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OSX 10.6 and 10.7. It then lists the runtime versions as AIR 3.0.0.369 and AIR SDK 3.0.0.3690 which correspond to Flash Player 11.0.d1.98. The remainder of the document outlines some of the new features in AIR 3.0 including Stage3D graphics, H.264 video encoding, G.711 audio compression, native JSON support, garbage collection improvements and more.

1. AIR 3.0 HACKS
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Taiga Hirohata

2. Taiga
• Freelance Flash / Flex engineer
• Blog - http://blog.taiga.jp/
• Principal at CLASSMETHOD Inc.
• Adobe Community Professional
• @taiga
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3. Book
• Flex 4 プログラミングガイド
ISBN-10 : 4777515788
ISBN-13 : 978-4777515783
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4. Agenda
• Introduction
• Support OS
• Runtime Versions
• parts of New Features in AIR 3
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5. Introduction
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6. Introduction
• August 8, 2011
AIR 3 beta 2 is now available for download.
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7. Support OS
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8. Support OS
• Windows XP (32bit)
• Windows Vista (32bit, 64bit)
• Windows 7 (32bit, 64bit)
• Mac OSX 10.6
• Mac OSX 10.7
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9. Runtime Versions
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10. Runtime Versions
• AIR ( Desktop and Android )
3.0.0.369.
• AIR SDK
3.0.0.3690.
• correspond to Flash Player 11.0.d1.98.
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11. parts of New Features in AIR 3
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12. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• CAUTION
add "-swf-version=13"
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13. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• Stage3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering
• H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras
• G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony
• Native JSON Support
• Garbage Collection Advice
• Cubic Bezier Curves
• Secure Random Number Generator
• JPEG-XR support
• Enhanced high resolution bitmap support
etc...
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14. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• Stage3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering
– flash.display3D.*;
– flash.display.Stage3D;
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15. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• Native JSON Support
– JSON.parse();
– JSON.stringify();
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16. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras
– flash.media.H264Level
– flash.media.H264Profile
– flash.media.H264VideoStreamSettings
– flash.media.VideoCodec
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17. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony
– flash.media.*
• Sound.loadCompressedDataFromByteArray()
• Sound.loadPCMFromByteArray()
• SoundCodec.PCMA (A-law 13bit PCM)
• SoundCodec.PCMU (μ-law 14bit PCM)
• SoundMixer.audioPlaybackMode
• SoundMixer.useSpeakerphoneForVoice
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18. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• Garbage Collection Advice
– System.pauseForGCIfCollectionImminent();
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19. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• Cubic Bezier Curves
– graphics.cubicCurveTo();
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20. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• Secure Random Number Generator
– flash.crypto.generateRandomBytes()
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21. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• JPEG-XR support
– .hdp
– .wdp
– .jx
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22. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• Enhanced high resolution bitmap support
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23. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• other... (1/2)
– flash.security.X500DistinguishedName
– flash.security.X509Certificate
– flash.net::SecureSocket.serverCertificate
– flash.net::SecureSocket
.addBinaryChainBuildingCertificate()
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24. parts of New Features in AIR 3
• other... (2/2)
– flash.text.SoftKeyboardType
– flash.text.StageText
– flash.ui.GameInput
– flash.ui.GameInputControl
– flash.ui.GameInputControlType
– flash.ui.GameInputDevice
– flash.ui.GameInputFinger
– flash.ui.GameInputHand
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25. Q&A
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