AIR Tip 7 - Using Command Line Arguments
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
AIR Tip 7: This tutorial will walk you through the process of using command line arguments with your AIR application. This tutorial is current for AIR Beta 3.
Archive for the 'AIR' category
Announcing InsideRIA.com
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Adobe and O’Reilly have teamed up to create one of the premiere sites for RIA news and information, InsideRIA.com. I am honored to be one of the experts at InsideRIA. I am a part of an amazing team with Raymond Camden, Rich Tretola, Andre Charland, Tony MacDonell, Gabor Vida, Jonathan Snook, and Andrew [...]
AIR Tip 6 - Launching an Application from the Browser
Friday, January 11th, 2008
AIR Tip 6: This tutorial will walk you through the process of launching an AIR application from the browser and passing arguments into it. This tutorial is current for Adobe AIR Beta 3.
AIR Beta 3 introduced the browser API. This API allows for AIR application to be launched from a web browser, and it [...]
AIR Tip 5 - Passing Arguments to an Application on Install
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
AIR Tip 5: This tutorial will walk you through the process of passing arguments to an AIR application when it is installed using the AIR installer badge. It includes both an article as well as a demonstration video. This tutorial is current for Adobe AIR Beta 3.
Update Your AIR MIME Type
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Many of you have probably been developing AIR (formerly Apollo) applications since the initial public release. You probably set the proper MIME Type on your server to handle the “.air” files. However, the MIME Type is different than it was when AIR was first released. You might want to take a minute [...]
Easy Way to Use the AIR Install Badge
Monday, January 7th, 2008
My new Adobe AIR Developer Center article shows an easy way to use the AIR install badge (and it also included Express Install for Flash Player). There has been quite a bit of confusion on how to implement all of these features, so I hope that this helps someone!
Link: Deploying Adobe AIR applications seamlessly [...]
AIR Tip 1 – Monitoring Your Internet Connection
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
AIR is meant to facilitate applications that work when online and offline. For example, if you developed an AIR application to manage your blog, you would want to be able to write blog posts whether you were online or offline. To accomplish this, the application would do one of two actions depending on [...]
AIR Tip 2 - Going Fullscreen
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
One of the great features of AIR is the ability to go fullscreen. Obviously this could be abused - but when used properly, this opens up many doors. One great example of a useful fullscreen application is Daniel Dura’s Twittercamp. When you click on the logo (bottom-right) it opens up into a fullscreen [...]
AIR Tip 3 - What Version is My Application
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Every AIR application has an Application Descriptor file which is an XML file that defines the properties of the application. This file is where the developer defines the application ID, application version, application name, and many other properties. As of AIR Beta 3 this file is accessible from NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor in Actionscript and air.NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor [...]
AMF Specification, Blaze DS, and AMFPHP 2.0 Beta
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Adobe released two specific items today that will have a huge impact on remoting. First, Adobe released the AMF 3.0 specification (PDF). Second, Adobe released BlazeDS which allows for distribution of real-time data through remoting. BlazeDS was previously a part of Livecycle Data Services, but has now been released under the LGPL [...]
