freshAIRapps.com - News http://freshairapps.com/news The finest selection of Adobe AIR applications, tutorials and resources for your viewing pleasure. Visit the site for more. en freshairapps@gmail.com Copyright 2008 2008-06-11T09:31:00+00:00 NASDEQ Market Replay AIR tool case study http://freshairapps.com/news/article/nasdeq_market_replay_air_tool_case_study/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/nasdeq_market_replay_air_tool_case_study/#When:09:31:00Z InfoQ has a great case study write up on developing an enterprise AIR application. The NASDEQ Market Replay AIR tool uses Amazon S3 for persistant data storage. Some code is shown as well as the decisions and other encounters whilst building the app.

Well worth the read.

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]]> Business, Code 2008-06-11T09:31:00+00:00 Adobe AIR 1.1 http://freshairapps.com/news/article/adobe_air_11/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/adobe_air_11/#When:08:36:02Z Adobe have announced to prerelease testers that AIR version 1.1 will be released around June 16th. This is a small dot release that comprises of bug fixes, certficate migration from self-signed to certificate authority, regional installation dialogues and support for internationalized applications using double byte languages.

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]]> Adobe, Releases 2008-06-06T08:36:02+00:00 Kevin Lynch on Adobe AIR http://freshairapps.com/news/article/kevin_lynch_on_adobe_air/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/kevin_lynch_on_adobe_air/#When:10:08:00Z Comprehensive interview with Adobe chief Kevin Lynch over at Knowledge@Wharton. Keving discusses the vision behind Adobe AIR and the transition of the RIA outside of the browser.

Read the full interview trascript here.

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]]> Adobe, Business 2008-06-04T10:08:00+00:00 Adobe releases Fireworks CS4 beta http://freshairapps.com/news/article/adobe_releases_fireworks_cs4_beta/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/adobe_releases_fireworks_cs4_beta/#When:08:40:00Z Adobe have released a Fireworks CS4 beta on labs in addition to a CS4 Dreamweaver beta that now has Webkit as the internal browser. I know that many developers and UI designers use Fireworks on a daily basis, so this will be interesting to see where Adobe are going with their latest products.

The demo is 48 hours unless you have a valid CS3 license then it is extended.

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]]> Adobe, Releases 2008-05-28T08:40:00+00:00 Merapi - Java and AIR http://freshairapps.com/news/article/merapi_java_and_air/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/merapi_java_and_air/#When:08:54:00Z Today I came across a very interesting project that aims to bridge applications written in Java with Adobe AIR. The Merapi project was started by a team of people who all use AIR and Java on a daily basis. They found that while AIR does some things really well, it had severe limitations when it comes to accessing hardware devices like the Wii remote or mobile phones.

In order to provide the best user experiences, we often find ourselves in a postion to try and push the limits on available technologies. When coming up with ideas about cool applications that could be build on the Adobe AIR™ platform, some of the most innovative concepts for “Rich, Connected” desktop applications were even outside the capabilities that AIR™ was able to provide. – http://www.merapiproject.net

Go and heave a read of the site which gives more background detail on the project and team.

The code is not currently freely available although the alpha is scheduled to be released on May 24th.

Just as a taster here is a brief video from Web Maniacs showing a very simple demo. See Adam Flater’s blog post for more info.



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]]> Code 2008-05-22T08:54:00+00:00 UI Resource Center http://freshairapps.com/news/article/ui_resource_center/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/ui_resource_center/#When:16:42:00Z Those guys at EffectiveUI have been busy creating the User Interface Resource Center. Where RIA designers and developers can get information on a range of RIA technologies including Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex.

The content is light to begin with however there is a good interview with the guys on The Making of eBay Desktop.

This site will make a great accompaniment to freshAIRapps for any RIA developer.

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]]> Business, Code, Design 2008-05-20T16:42:00+00:00 Update AIR apps written in HTML & AJAX http://freshairapps.com/news/article/update_air_apps_written_in_html_ajax/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/update_air_apps_written_in_html_ajax/#When:20:43:00Z Air Simple Updater is an updating mechanism for creators of HTML and AJAX AIR apps with only a few extra lines of code. All the source files are located on Google Code along with a sample application for you to try.

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]]> Code 2008-05-17T20:43:00+00:00 Google maps API for Flash http://freshairapps.com/news/article/google_maps_api_for_flash/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/google_maps_api_for_flash/#When:12:22:00Z I know that many of you have been waiting for this but after Yahoo and ESRI, Google have finally released an ActionScript 3 API for Google Maps. Well this means no more bridging for us AIR developers and we can now develop pure AS3 apps for AIR with mapping from Google.

Official API page
Official API reference
Google blog post
Example Flash application

UPDATE Apparently the ActionScript Google Maps API does not work with AIR and contravenes the terms and conditions. This sucks big time and if there was an area which would have seen an explosion in mapping apps then it would be with us AIR developers.

Ryan Stewart has a related entry on his blog which highlights a feature request on Google Code so go and offer up your support.

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]]> Releases 2008-05-15T12:22:00+00:00 Flash player 10 ‘Astro’ beta http://freshairapps.com/news/article/flash_player_10_astro_beta/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/flash_player_10_astro_beta/#When:09:45:00Z Adobe has released the public beta of the new Flash player version 10 code named Astro. I have heard of some very interesting things that are going to arrive with this update and from and AIR development perspective it should provide even more RIA / RDA (Rich Desktop Application) options.

Some points of interest include new built in 3D effects, the creation of custom filters using the newley announced Pixel Bender toolkit and better graphics performance.

Read more detail at the Adobe labs page for Flash player 10, and an article by the guys at ReadWriteWeb.

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]]> Adobe, Releases 2008-05-15T09:45:00+00:00 Adobe MAX 2008 dates announced http://freshairapps.com/news/article/adobe_max_2008_dates_announced/ http://freshairapps.com/news/article/adobe_max_2008_dates_announced/#When:08:26:00Z Adobe has officially announced the dates for this years Max conference. I attended the Europe event last year in Barcelona and had an absolute ball. The sessions were very inspiring and informative and I met some great people too. I will definately be attending the event in Milan on December 1 – 4.

Max 2008 North America – San Francisco, California November 16 – 19, 2008
Max 2008 Europe – Milan, Italy December 1 – 4 2008
Max 2009 Japan – Tokyo, Japan January 2009 (exact date to be confirmed)

For full information visit http://max.adobe.com

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