Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® AIR™ Programming in 24 Hours

Hour 1 Taking in a Deep Breath of AIR

In this hour, you’ll learn

    • What the Adobe Integrated Runtime is

    • Who benefits from AIR

    • A short history lesson, from the Adobe Apollo Camp to AIR 1.5

    • Just how big AIR is going to be

What Is the Adobe Integrated Runtime?

The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a new offering from Adobe that allows the development of rich desktop applications (RDA), a term that is coined here but that is similar to the rich Internet application (RIA) that Macromedia and Adobe’s Flex have popularized.

By the Way

RIAs are web applications that have the features and functionality resembling that of desktop applications. RIAs typically maintain all the necessary features for the user ...