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I can talk all day about Adobe AIR capabilities and architecture, but in order for you to really understand how to develop apps, nothing works better than walking through each step of the development process. In the experience of many developers, it is only when they build their first Hello World app that those precious [...]


As you begin to work with Adobe AIR, you should begin by configuring your development environment. First, you should install the runtime and SDK. The SDK comes with two command-line tools that you can use to debug and deploy Adobe AIR apps: ✓ ADL is used for testing purposes only, enabling you to run an [...]


Setting the environment path in Windows Vista 1. Press the Windows key and the Pause/Break key at the same time. The System section of the Control Panel is displayed. 2. Click the Advanced System Settings link. A User Account Control dialog box is displayed. 3. If required, enter the password for an Administrator account. 4. [...]


One of the concepts that is important for you to understand from the get-go is application security. Desktop apps get permission in terms of what they can do and cannot do from the OS and the available permissions of the cur- rently logged-in user. They receive this level of access because the user needs to [...]


The Adobe AIR runtime may be a relatively new platform, but it actually embeds three highly mature and stable cross-platform technologies to power AIR applications. These are the following: WebKit: Used for rendering HTML content inside an AIR app. WebKit is an open source, cross-platform browser and is the underlying rendering engine on which Apple’s [...]


Adobe AIR enables Web developers to create cross-platform desktop applica- tions using and combining familiar Web technologies that they are already skilled in — such as HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, Flash, and Flex. Even though the technologies used to create it are Web based, an AIR appli- cation looks and feels like a normal Windows or [...]


Web developers, unite! For all too long, Web developers have been oppressed by the shackles of the browser window, their creativity stifled by cross-browser compatibility issues, their self-image hurt by the scoffs of desktop app programmers who trivialize browser-based solutions. . . But that was then; this is now. Or, to mimic the voiceover from [...]




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