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Metadata and the Flash Platform

By Russ Ferguson
November 23, 2009

Readers of this site are familiar with the concept of metadata. Meta tags in websites for example, describe the site and the individual pages within. Files can also have meta data, this can be anything from where in the world that picture was taken and that kind of camera, to the track number of the mp3 your listening to.

RIA Unleashed Boston Conference - My thoughts

By Scott Janousek
November 19, 2009

Kevin Shuttle already beat me to the proverbial punch with his review, but I'd to share some of my thoughts on a recent Boston based conference called RIA Unleashed. This developer focused event was recently held at Bentley College, Waltham,...

AIR 2.0 and FP 10.1 now Available on Adobe Labs

By Andrew Trice
November 17, 2009

The Adobe AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 betas are now available on Adobe Labs. You can download AIR 2.0 directly from: ttp://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/ You can download Flash Player 10.1 directly from: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

jQuery and AIR - Moving from web page to application (3)

By Raymond Camden
November 5, 2009

The third part of my series on creating a jQuery AIR game - Hangman. In this entry I discuss some architecture changes I made to the JavaScript and some new database support.

New Flash Builder for the Force.com Platform

By Michael Epstein
October 27, 2009

Yesterday Adobe and Salesforce.com announced the preview release of Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com. It's an integrated development environment (IDE) designed to simplify the building of Flex or AIR applications that interact with back-end Force.com data and services.

Multi-touch and the Flash Platform

By Andrew Trice
October 14, 2009

One of the big announcements at MAX this year was Flash on devices. As the capabilities of devices change, so do the capabilities of the platforms we use to build our applications. One of the latest trends is Multi-touch. In this post, I'll try to shed some light on the upcoming multitouch capabilities in AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1.

AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview

By Elad Elrom
October 7, 2009

Adobe just released public information about AIR 2.0 and added new capabilities that better tie with the operation systems which gives your application more control while increasing performance. The new version will be deployed on Flash player 10 using Flex...

RIA Radio, Live at Adobe MAX - Rob Christensen

By Garth Braithwaite
October 7, 2009

Rob Christensen (Product Manager for AIR) joined us to talk about the great new features planned for AIR 2.0 including new installer options, USB mass storage support, microphone access, UDP support, and a bunch more.

jQuery and AIR - Moving from web page to application (2)

By Raymond Camden
October 1, 2009

As a followup to my previous entry, I discuss modifying my Hangman game to make use of a database of words.

jQuery and AIR - Moving from web page to application

By Raymond Camden
September 28, 2009

This blog entry discusses a new jQuery-based AIR game, Hangman. It doesn't yet make much use of the AIR platform, but further enhancements will demonstrate how we can effectively use jQuery and AIR together.

Using Aptana Studio to build jQuery/AIR Applications (3)

By Raymond Camden
September 17, 2009

A look at how to create an AIR Badge page with Aptana studio.

Bringing Football Highlights To Your Desktop with AIR

By Andrew Trice
September 11, 2009

In the spirit of tonight's first NFL game of the season, I decided to put together an example that integrates feeds from NFL.com and brings it directly to your desktop. This is a basic example that demonstrates how to use Flash Builder's data wizards to consume data from a public rss feed as a HTTPService.

Branding 101 for Developers - Part 4 of 4

By Sidney de Koning
September 3, 2009

Get it out there! I know for a fact that developers are lazy people (myself included). I'd rather write 200 lines of code for some time-consuming task one time instead of writing 250 lines every single time.

Branding 101 for Developers - Part 3 of 4

By Sidney de Koning
August 31, 2009

So you've written your AIR application, now what? What does it take to create a successful AIR application? What is an identity and what does it have to do with AIR? And what steps do you need to take before releasing it? In part 3 of this series I'll share my ideas about my personal quest and lessons learned the hard way.

Using Aptana Studio to build jQuery/AIR Applications (2)

By Raymond Camden
August 29, 2009

A follow up to my previous entry on creating a simple jQuery based AIR application using the Aptana Studio product.

Augmenting Reality with the iPhone - Acrossair's Nearest Tube will be one of the first "Terminator Vision" applications

By James Turner
August 27, 2009

With the release of the 3.1 iPhone OS, application developers will finally be able to develop augmented reality (AR) apps. In other words, Terminator Vision is right around the corner. I recently talked to Chetan Damani, one of the founders of Acrossair, about their new AR applications, Nearest Tube, and what's involved in developing AR applications for the iPhone.

Branding 101 for Developers - Part 2 of 4

By Sidney de Koning
August 20, 2009

When you just developed your AIR application you are presented with one major, but not unsolvable problem: how to get exposure? In this weeks episode I'll talk about what brand evangelists are and what they do, and how to gain trust from your users.

Branding 101 for Developers - Part 1 of 4

By Sidney de Koning
August 20, 2009

When you just developed your AIR application you are presented with one major, but not unsolvable problem: how to get exposure? Over the next four weeks I'll share my ideas about my personal quest and lessons learned the hard way.

Scotch On The Road is waking up the European ColdFusion community!

By Cyril Hanquez
June 3, 2009

Scotch on the Rocks, established in 2005, is a conference concentrating on all things ColdFusion, Flex & AIR: Incorporating keynotes, technical sessions and tutorials, as well as the most innovative and successful experts and companies, Scotch on the Rocks is a...

Poll Results: How many AIR applications do you have installed?

By Rich Tretola
May 26, 2009

I am glad to see that only 6% of our respondents do not have any AIR applications currently installed, which means that 84% have at least 1 AIR application installed. The results show that 57% have between 1-5 AIR applications...

WebDU 2009: that geeky rock concert

By Justin J. Moses
May 23, 2009

It may surprise you to know that the Pacific region has its fair share of web talent. Having just been surrounded by most of them for the past couple of days, I can attest to the fact. This year was my first WebDU, and I'm still tingling.

New Poll: How many Adobe AIR applications do you have installed?

By Rich Tretola
May 18, 2009

Adobe AIR (the desktop runtime allowing for the installation of applications built with Adobe Flash, Flex, or HTML) recently had a new addition to its showcase of applications when the NY Times introduced its new online reader application. So, my...

Announcing InsideRIA Conference

By Rich Tretola
May 18, 2009

Yep, you heard correctly in association with the 360Conferences guys, InsideRIA is having its first conference August 23-24, 2009 in San Jose, CA at the eBay facilities. This 2-day event will into the nitty gritty of developing for the Rich...

New York Times AIR reader released

By RJ Owen
May 11, 2009

The New York Times released a special reader application built in Adobe AIR this past weekend. It's a pretty slick application, and an example of AIR done right.

Migrating AIR Application Certificates

By Damon Edwards
April 14, 2009

So, you built your AIR application, packaged it using a self-signed certificate, and put it out on the world wide web for everyone to use. What happens if your little experiment starts to pick up, or you want to move...

Multi-touch AIR applications

By Rich Tretola
April 10, 2009

This is a short video by Andrew Trice showing multi-touch functionality within an Adobe AIR 1.5 application. Click here to watch.

Smashing Magazine on Adobe AIR

By RJ Owen
April 7, 2009

Smashing Magazine has a pretty comprehensive collection of AIR resources and tutorials up on their site today. They feature all of the Adobe hosted stuff (official resources, support, free samples, etc.) as well as highlighting some of the better community resources including Scalenine.com, Aptana Studio, and the De MonsterDeBugger.

Developing Mashup Air Apps: Consuming Twitter APIs

By Marco Casario
March 18, 2009

Excerpted from Chapter 18 of the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook. Mashup applications are based on the possibility of consuming remote data sources, and to create one, you need a good understanding of the APIs available. AIR offers even greater possibilities for creating mashup applications and widgets. With AIR, you can go beyond all the sandbox security of the browser and add advanced features to the application to interact with the file system or local storage with SQLite. This chapter demonstrates how to integrate the Flickr, Yahoo Maps, and Twitter web services to create desktop mashup applications with AIR.

Developing Mashup Air Apps: Yahoo Maps Web Services

By Marco Casario
March 10, 2009

Developing Mashup Air Apps: Consuming Flickr Web Services

By Marco Casario
March 10, 2009

AIR plug-in based application

By Giorgio Natili
February 26, 2009

Introduction Create an AIR application based on the loading of external HTML/JS modules that use the sand box bridge in order to communicate with the main application and in order to not lose the AIR’s api capabilities. This article will...

What the recent Adobe mobile announcements mean for RIA

By Dale Rankine
February 18, 2009

Funny how the perception of mobile can change almost overnight. In a flurry of announcements from Adobe in the lead up to the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the worlds of RIA and mobile were placed on a collision...

Managing Memory Consumption During Hard Times

By Damon Edwards
February 12, 2009

When building applications, in most situations you'll be dealing with all sorts of dynamic content. Meaning, requesting data from a server, then displaying results on the screen by attaching objects to the display list. Usually, this means dealing with some...

Data Synchronization with AIR and BlazeDS

By Yakov Fain
February 9, 2009

One of the main selling points of Adobe AIR is its ability to support occasionally connected applications. Imagine a salesman on the road working with an application without having a network connection. As an example, this can be a salesman of a pharmaceutical company visits medical offices offering their new pills called Xyzin.

Safari Books Online Goes Mobile

By Allen Noren
February 9, 2009

Like much of the publishing world, I'm eager to hear about Amazon's latest version of the Kindle. But that's not the only news today. I'm sitting here at TOC and...

The Art of System Tray and Dock Icons

By Damon Edwards
February 3, 2009

With the explosion of Adobe AIR apps hitting the streets these days, from corporate applications to small single developer applications, it's a wonder to me how a lot of these applications forget about some of the most important aspects of an application. One being, system tray or dock icons. Lets explore the importance of these icons, and how to implement them in your own application.

Enterprise Development with Flex

By Yakov Fain
February 2, 2009

This is my first blog at InsideRIA and I’m glad to be here. I’ll start with a quick introduction of the new Flex book that I’m working on with my two colleagues - Victor and Anatole. This advanced O’Reilly book is titled “Enterprise development with Flex”. The rough cuts version of the first chapter of the book is already available

Konductor, CMS via AIR & Dreamweaver

By Stacey Mulcahy
January 21, 2009

One of the hardest challenges in the web design field is designing and creating a site that will be managed and updated by someone else. That someone else will eventually put on the hat of the webmaster - independently adding, updating and removing content often with little or limited web experience.

Multitouch AIR Applications

By Andrew Trice
January 14, 2009

This morning one of my good friends forwarded me an interesting link to Ryan Stewart's blog showing a multi-touch interface built on AIR from Intuilab. Go check it out!

360|Flex Indianapolis May 18-20

By Rich Tretola
January 7, 2009

360|Flex Indianapolis will be held May 18-20, 2009. 360|Flex conferences are excellent as they always have fantastic speakers and a cool vibe in an intimate setting. I will be there and will be presenting on an AIR. If you haven't registered yet, please do so asap for best pricing. http://360conferences.com/360flex/

Google Native Client: A Game Changer or an Also-Ran?

By Richard Monson-Haefel
December 15, 2008

Friday Google announced a new RIA platform called Google Native Client (NaCl). NaCl provides a browser plug-in that allows your browser to run C/C++ applications directly on your x86 processor.

Tracking AIR Usage With a Custom User Agent

By Andrew Trice
December 12, 2008

Here's another handy AIR tip that goes hand-in-hand with my previous tip on accessing application descriptors. Did you know that you can customize the user-agent setting for your AIR applications?

Want to learn how to SOA clients with Flex and Adobe AIR?

By Rich Tretola
December 8, 2008

Duane Nickull has posted over 8 hours of free course materials that will walk you through how to use Web Services, REST, and RPC services within Flex and AIR. All of the materials are available for free. Here is the...

The RIA and the Polyglot VM

By chromatic
December 3, 2008

The Adobe/Microsoft/Sun strategy for producing rich Internet applications can solve most of the problems in developing web applications -- at the cost of a huge step backward away from ubiquitous computing.

Fedora 10: Upgrading an Earlier Version Still a Bad Idea + Adobe AIR Doesn't Like 10

By Todd Ogasawara
November 30, 2008

Updating Fedora from one release to another is still a bad idea even with Fedora 10. But, the biggest issue for me is that Adobe AIR for Linux Beta 1 doesn't install on it.

The Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-Off Contest Winning Entry Posted Here

By Sara Peyton
November 22, 2008

Recently O'Reilly sponsored the Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-Off contest, a chance for developers to submit recipes and win prizes. And many of the top entries can be found in O'Reilly's latest, Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook, including the winning entry from Greg Jastrab. In this excerpt from the book, we give you Greg's prize-winning contribution, Migrating Serialization Changes in ActionScript.

Google Maps for AIR

By Andrew Trice
November 19, 2008

Great news! Google announced today at MAX that the Google Maps API for Flash now supports AIR.

Tour De Flex Application

By David Tucker
November 17, 2008

In addition to many of the bigger announcements that have already been unveiled at Max 2008, Serge Jespers announced a new Flex application that was developed by the evangelism team to showcase Flex and AIR functionality. This application is named, 'Tour De Flex'. In addition to the AIR application, there is also an Eclipse plug-in that enables you to search through the over 200 examples included in Tour De Flex.

FotoBooth in the MAX Community Lounge

By Rich Tretola
November 17, 2008

Even though I couldn't make it to MAX this year. A special MAX edition of FotoBooth has made the trip and is installed and running in the community lounge. This version is based on the AIR 1.5 runtime and includes...

The Cat "alyst" is out of the bag (What's new from Adobe)

By Rich Tretola
November 16, 2008

MAX has come and some have a slew of announcements from Adobe. This post includes new information on the following products: Adobe� Flash Catalyst™ previously code named Thermo Adobe Flex� Builder™ "Gumbo" Adobe� AIR™ 1.5 Adobe� Flash� Player 10 for 64-bit Linux Adobe� Flash� Player for Smartphones.

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