Nicolas Lierman experiences.

1. Introduction
2. From concept to product
3. It has to be functional
4. Some of the technical challenges
5. Roadmap for the future

Adobe AIR Developer Center for Flex

- The look
- The feel
- The experience brand
- Enter Adobe AIR
- Desktop icon
- Custom window chrome

Adobe AIR Developer Center

The Introduction by Mike Chambers.

What is Adobe AIR?
What did we (Adobe) release for this launch?
What’s new in this release?
Time to do something cool

Adobe Developer Connection

This application was in Beta for a long time, but yesterday version 1.0 was released. As far as I know no big changes were done, however lots of bugs were fixed since Beta version.

Via appscout.com

Benjamin Dobler has created a very cool application putting together AIR, Papervision and Parleys.com. Check out the result here.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that global brands are embracing the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs) to create new types of engaging experiences for their customers, partners and employees. Adobe RIA technologies, including Adobe® AIR™ and Adobe® Flex® 3 software, released today (see separate release), provide companies with a comprehensive solution for the creation and deployment of RIAs for the browser and the desktop.

Press release

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® AIR™ and Adobe® Flex® 3 software, furthering the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers and designers use Adobe RIA technologies to rapidly create and deploy rich, branded content and applications. The release of Adobe AIR signals the next wave of Adobe RIA innovation by bridging the real-time, dynamic capabilities of the Web with the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop. Businesses that leverage the Web as a platform are now using the latest Adobe RIA technologies to build and deploy more engaging applications with the widest reach across browsers, desktops and operating systems.

Press Release

This job posting is location specific, we are looking for someone who is within driving or public transportation distance of San Francisco, CA U.S.A.

This project is already 60%-70% programmed, and we are only looking for someone to finish v1.0 and potentially take the project to the next level [v2.0, v3.0 etc] with us if there is a good fit - staff/management/programmer.

We are looking for energetic, driven people to participate in a WEB 2.0-ish project.
The project is to be built on Adobe AIR/Flex technology to run on the PC, Mac platforms, as well as mobile devices [iPhone, and others].

The successful applicant should enjoy a fast paced, challenging environment and understand making and meeting deadlines.

You should have an understanding of programming on the PC, as well as MAC platforms.
Understanding basic networking [TCP/IP] is also a good idea.

Knowledge of Adobe AIR pre-release/1.0 and Flex 3.0 required.
Knowledge of UI design a big plus.
Knowledge of Flash, a definite bonus.

Knowledge of other programming languages such as Java, XCode are valuable, but initial focus is on the AIR/Flex program.

You, the programmer will be working with a team of 3 to 4 interns.

Working from home after initial trial period is a possibility for the right applicants.

Compensation will be based on type of position and experience.

Serious applicants only, please.

Starting Date: Immediately.
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Contact information for this internship is as follows:

email: exlemor@gmail.com

Hours for this position are somewhat flexible…
Willing to work with the right applicant to meet in part their schedules…

Sincerely,

Emmanuel Lemor
ThumbIt, Inc.

If interested please answer the questions below and email to helptesterairlinux at adobe dot com.

1. Are you comfortable working with prerelease software that is not yet feature complete?

2. Will you be able to submit bug reports on issues that you find back to our development team?

3. How many hours a week can you spend testing on Linux?

4. What is the primary distribution of Linux that you’re using? If you are using more than one distribution, please list.

5. Will you be developing applications on your Linux machine (as opposed to writing on Windows and testing the applications on Linux)?

6. What other operating system are you using, if any (Mac, Windows)? Can you compare the behavior of AIR for Linux with AIR for Windows and AIR for Mac OS?

7. Are you working on an AIR application today? If so, please describe.

8. Are you primarily a Flash, Flex or JavaScript developer?

9. What is your name, company name and email address?

Resources list by riascope.com

Take a look at this BlueClock article with some useful tips to get you started.

Blog Remix immerses you in an active music blog experience. It merges blog posts and MP3s and lets you mix together different tracks or blog entries from your favorite MP3 blogs. Save the mix for yourself, or share it with the rest of us as an XSPF playlist, podcast, or feed (using Atom, my personal favorite syndication format, or RSS).

Blog Remix

Via WebResourcesDepot

- Fresh
- Roadfinder
- Signet
- Ora Time And Expense
- Spaz
- Digimix
- SearchCoders
- Finetune Desktop
- DiggTop
- Kuler

The mechanic can now diagnose the car from the computer and check the cars vitals and components. It even has the ability to turn on such things has headlights and sunroofs.

Take a look at this nice application at merhl

- Accessing data in the embedded SQLite database
- Updating data in the SQLite database
- Asynchronously reading text from a local file
- Creating basic custom chrome
- Connecting to the SQLite database
- Adding custom window controls to custom chrome
- Encoding a PNG using a Flash library
- Full SQLite database example (create, read, update, delete)
- Selecting a directory
- Encoding a PNG using a JavaScript encoder
- Selecting a file from the local disk
- Dragging files into an AIR application
- Applying Flash filters to HTML content
- Creating a full screen window
- Getting a list of files from the system clipboard
- Testing connectivity to an HTTP endpoint
- Save images of Yahoo! Maps to local disk as PNG
- Custom chrome example using assets from Meebo
- Selecting multiple files from disk
- Creating a new native window
- Drag complex content from AIR to native resource
- Putting files on the system clipboard
- Remembering user login with AIR encrypted local store
- Using Flash Remoting from JavaScript
- Scaling down a selected image
- Determining the dimensions of an image
- Capturing web cam images for a slideshow
- Testing connection to any socket endpoint
- Playing a sound file
- Simple stopwatch application with custom chrome
- Storing data in a SQLite database
- Synchronously reading a text file from disk
- Creating database tables in a SQLite database
- Creating a temporary file
- Dragging text from the system into an AIR application
- Extracting the EXIF thumbnail from a JPEG image
- Uploading a file in the background
- Creating a basic popup window
- Writing text content to a local file
- Reading XML data using XMLHttpRequest (XHR)

Download Samples

Benjamin Dobler made a quick update to his RichFLV application. It should now work with Beta 3 of AIR.

All this, now at Adobe Labs.

kuler Desktop for Adobe AIR Beta 3
Adobe AIR Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Beta 3
Flex 3 Beta 3
Adobe AIR Beta 3

Via everythingflex.com

Download AIR Application!