Adobe Releases AIR, Flex 3
Adobe AIR enables developers to create RIAs on the desktop using the skills and Web technologies such as HTML, Ajax, PDF, Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex they already employ. Applications deployed on Adobe AIR have the advantages of browser-based RIAs, such as speed of development, ease of use, and access from virtually anywhere. Yet they also have the benefits of desktop applications, such as the ability to read/write local files, work with other applications on a users computer and maintain local data storage on the desktop.
Adobe points out that AIR makes use of various open source technologies including WebKit, the Apple-sponsored rendering engine behind Safari.
Also released is Adobe Flex 3 software which provides a framework for developing applications based on Adobe's Flex and AIR frameworks.
Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive, expressive RIAs. Adobe Flex Builder 3, an Eclipse based development tool, accelerates Flex application development and includes new capabilities for deploying RIAs on Adobe AIR. Adobe Flex Builder 3 integrates with Adobe Creative Suite 3 software making it easy for designers and developers to work together more efficiently. Powerful new testing tools, including memory and performance profilers and integrated support for automated functional testing, speed up development and lead to higher performing RIAs.
The Adobe AIR and Flex SDKs are available as free downloads from Adobe's website and is available for Mac OS X. Commercial versions of Adobe Flex Builder are also available.
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I dont see the prospect of this, other than - god forbid - Flash animations and adds in applications.. -.-
I assume you are meaning you don't seem a purpose for AIR?
There are lots of cases where it is useful to be able to use functionality from a website type application while offline. eBay already have an application built using it that lets you set up all the information for selling an item offline and then it just uploads the data once an internet connection is available.
It could also easily be put to use in the data collection field. The application would run on the device the person has out in the field and then once they have an internet connection back in the office it all gets uploaded.
I was at an Adobe event where they demonstrated the technology last year and have several ideas of what it could be used for.
Not sure I like the sound of that.
does anyone else see this as a way for apple to work around an iPhone SDK. I mean if air allows you to read/write files to a given computer then you can write apps for mobile safari that can read write files to iPhone.
I agree, I think this may have surfaced to aid Apple with the iPhone SDK. I hope not. I hope Apple provide a fully finished SDK of their own. Thats what i hope. But we all know thats not going to happen, if there is an easy, cheaper way ...
Cue .. Adobe AIR.
R-Fly
Yet they also have the benefits of desktop applications, such as the ability to read/write local files...
Not sure I like the sound of that.
Depends what you download. If it is some random application you find on the internet then it may be trouble. However it is an application a company develops for their staff then the ability to read/write local files is vital or the technology is crippled.
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