Sample AIR Apps for New Features of AIR 2 BETA
Y'day Adobe has released its BETA versions of AIR 2 with a bunch of incredible new Features. These new Features help us build a wide vairety of new applications with new capabilities which were not there in AIR 1.
By this time you might all be knowing all the new Features that are part of AIR 2 BETA. Still to know more about new Features, check out Christian Cantrell's post.
There are some very good Sample apps in Adobe Library which were built based on these new capabilities and features.
MultiTouch Support: This is perhaps the most exciting feature as AIR 2 and Flash player 10.1 is going to support multi-touch on platforms like Windows 7 and MAC's Snow Leopard. Here are some apps which demonstrate the support for multi-touch:
- GeoTest: Download Installer, Source
- PhotoPhysics: Download Installer, Source
- SpriteFract: Download Installer, Source
- TouchTest: Download Installer, Source
Storage Volume Detection: With AIR 2, apps can detect when any storage device like Camera, USB are connected to computer. Adobe Library had an application FileTile which demonstrates the feature of detecting any external device and will open the files in default application.
Microphone Data Access: AIR 2 gives us the support to access data from Microphone connected to the computer either for recording or processing without any need of any server. There is an application Microphone which can record and playback the different playback speeds supported.
File Promises: With this feature AIR 2 will allow us to drap-drop the files which are not been created yet and are remote. With this feature support, you can implement drag-drop file from a FTP server directly to your AIR application. This feature is for Windows and MAC only.
S3E application provides a graphical front-end to your Amazon S3 account to demonstrate this feature.
Native Process API: Using this new functionality can now deploy their apps with operating-specific installers like .exe, .dmg, .rpm, and .deb instead of an .air installer file. Adobe released application SearchCentral. You can get the source of application.
Try out these applications and get to know these new Features of AIR 2 more...
Here is a brief list of other Features which AIR 2 has introduced:
- Global Error handling
- Enhanced Printing Support
- Updated Webkit
- Improved Ipv6 Support
- Increased maximum size of Native Window from 2880x2880 to 4095x4095
- Server Sockets Support
- DNS Lookup
- Network Interface Enumeration
- Database Transaction Savepoints
- Screen Reader Support for Windows
- IME API and IME Text Input Enhancement
- Smaller Runtime Installer Size
- Improved CPU Usage and Low Memory Usage