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What Is Adobe AIR?

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What Is Adobe AIR?

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Published 28 May 2008 by Gil Harland Adobe launched their latest technology called Adobe AIR at the beginning of 2008. It’s an exciting technology that lets web developers to use their skills to build applications for virtually any desktop environment.

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So this will be the extent of my section on describing what AIR is. First the Adobe “Marketing Speak” version: The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems. Wow. I’m sold. Now for my version: Adobe AIR let’s you use HTML and Ajax (and Flash or Flex) to create desktop application. They work, very similarly to who you would expect them to work when being viewed from within the browse, but they are not in the browser, they are running as their own little desktop application. There are a few differences, some of which we may discuss. Overall, It’s pretty cool. And it is a lot of fun to work with. The Adobe AIR Runtime Engine Not to be redundant, or repeat myself, but the title of this section is “The Adobe Adobe Integrated Runtime Runtime Engine”. Since AIR is the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). AIR applications require the use of the Adobe Integrated Runtime Engine on the

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Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash® and Flex technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. Adobe AIR allows developers to use familiar tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4, Flex® BuilderTM 3, Flash CS4 Professional, or any text editor to build their applications and easily deliver a single application installer that works across operating systems.

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