Feb/100
Its 2nd Birthday of ADOBE AIR
Its 2nd Birthday for ADOBE AIR. AIR was started on February 25th, 2008 and with in this 2 years, it grew rapidly and adopted by many as better option for creating RIA for Desktop. You can see AIR Applications now everywhere in a wide variety of domains from Entertainment, News, Social Networking, eLearning, Video etc.
Its really great to use such a product and lets flourish it further...
Looking forward for the exciting new application on AIR...
Dec/090
Multitouch in AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1
You might have heard by now about all the new features that is part of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. One of the exciting features is Multi-touch and Gestures capabilities.
Check out this video where Kevin Lynch demoing some of the multi-touch capabilities during Keynote at MAX Conference.
For Multi-touch to work, the hardware should support Multi-touch events.
Nov/090
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:
Nov/090
Air 2 BETA available on Adobe Labs
People who are waiting for BETA of AIR 2 dont have to wait any further as its there in ADOBE LABS for download.
You can download both AIR SDK and Runtime for different OS 's like Windows , MAC and Linux.
Adobe labs says: "Adobe AIR 2 is in the early stages of development which means it contains bugs, and not all features are fully implemented. This software is for evaluation use only, and should not be used for any mission-critical work."
Goahead, download and check it out...
Nov/090
ADOBE AIR 2.0 BETA Notification
Want to know when ADOBE AIR 2.0 BETA is going to get released? All you need to do is to get Adobe Membership.
Adobe membership is free and registration only takes a minute. As a member, you will have access to Adobe Labs downloads, sample applications, services, and special community areas including forums and wikis as well as access to membership benefits on Adobe.com.
With this membership, ADOBE LABS provides access to the software, you can provide comments, ideas, feature requests and many more.
Get youself Adobe Memership now...
Oct/090
Some useful Adobe AIR Apps you should know
Adobe AIR , as you all know, is platform-independent runtime with which web developers can use their expertise in RIA development to create Applications for Desktops.
There are some thousands of AIR applications available now for use.
HONGKIAT listed out some nice AIR applications which can be useful in our day-to-day activities. I found some applications which i dint knew about from this article.
Install and use these applications. Make this world full of AIR 
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Oct/090
AIR 2.0 Enhancements – Overview
As you all know that information about AIR 2.0 and its new enhancements is released recently.
People who are already working on AIR 1.0 will find it very useful to know what new enhancements AIR 2.0 is going to offer.
Elad Elron made an excellent post about these new enhancements and capabilities.
I am sure this information is useful to all RIA developers.
Sep/090
Creating Pop-Up Windows in Flex/AIR
Pop-ups are a vital part of any application. In this post, we are going to look into how a popup window can be designed in FLEX/AIR.
PopUpManager class is the one used to create new top-level windows and can be used to place above all the visible windows (making it a popUp). You can remove popUps as well using this class.
We can make these windows modal as well.
We can create a popUp using createPopUp method.
public static createPopUp(parent:DisplayObject, class:Class, modal:Boolean = false):IFlexDisplayObject
Here parent is the window over which the popup is going to appear, class is the reference to the custom MXML component which is going to act as pop-up, modal represents the Boolean value to decide on whether the popup is going to be modal or not.
Sep/091
FileSystem Componets in Adobe AIR
Flex File system components are the ones which combine the functionality of list controls like List, Tree, DataGrid etc with File System details. Using these File System components, we can design something like File Brower for your computer with in a matter of minutes.
Here are the Flex File System components:
- FileSystemComboBox: Shows hierarchical directories of selected directory
- FileSystemTree: displays contents of a directory as Tree
- FileSystemList: Shows the contents of a directory as List
- FileSystemDataGrid: Displays file information in a grid format
- FileSystemHistoryButton: Lets us move through the navigational history of another control