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Adobe AIR 1.5 SDK (code named Cosmos) is now being included with the latest Flex 3 nightly builds. Aiming to bring the build process of Flex and AIR tighter together. There are some great things mentioned like the new JavaScript engine SquirrelFish, and fixes for the annoying opening of new browser windows.

Mike Chambers has a detailed post on the developments so check out his post.

TO get you hands on the nightly builds head on over to the Adobe Open Source site for Flex.

Over at the Adobe Dev Centre there is an interesting article covering some common mistakes when developing AIR applications. It’s written by AIR guru David Tucker who is an AIR and Flex developer for Universal Mind.
So go and give it a read, you’d be mad not to.

Adobe’s Mike Chambers has listed some URLs that detail error codes within Adobe AIR. So if you get cryptic error codes and are having trouble tracking them down try these links.

List of runtime errors in Adobe docs

Adobe Developer Toolkit (ADT) error codes

If you do then Mike Chambers from Adobe would like to hear them. Check out his blog post here and send in a comment with the issues that you have.

Yahoo have announced an API for their music service. Detailed on programmableweb the service is REST based and allows for JSON, XML and RSS responses. Requests are currently limited to 5000 per day although if your using AIR you will be caching your results locally. Should be interesting to see what apps evolve out of the music API. There is also a support forum setup for this API.

An interesting step by step article for developers on using Flash CS3 and AIR. This will cover some of the questions and getting started issues that Flash developers could have when moving to AIR development. Nice job guys. Check it out here now.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.