Adobe Air® 2.0 + Native Applications!

We’ve been working on an Adobe Air® application for quite some time called LiteFile® and production came to a slow halt when the need for launching Native Applications started to sour our love for Air. But with the new version of Air, we hope the affair will rekindle. I’ve downloaded the beta and worked through the tutorial by Adobe’s Jeff Swartz; now all that remains is applied usage! I’m really excited about this for two reasons.

1. We get to stop avoiding the pink elephant in the room when it comes to the “Where are we on this?” question.
2. I’ve personally requested this functionality and supported many feature requests, forum conversations, and emails with Adobe Labs.

It’s GREAT to know that Adobe DOES actually listen to us and that the feature request process works! Sure you have to be persistent, and sure it’s not instantaneous but considering when the campaign was started; Adobe has been relatively quick in getting results (event though it’s still in beta phase).

Air 2.0 Beta Features

• Resolving DNS records in Adobe AIR 2
  Use the DNSResolver class to incorporate DNS lookups in your AIR applications.
• Using drag-and-drop support of remote files in Adobe AIR 2 beta
  Learn about the methods and properties to use for drag-and-drop/copy-and-paste operations.
• Creating a socket server in Adobe AIR 2 beta
  Explore what you can do with the new SocketServer class in AIR 2 beta.
• Exploring the new file capabilities in Adobe AIR 2 beta
  Use the new file APIs to open files, flag files as downloaded, and listen for mounted and unmounted storage volumes.
• Using the Microphone capabilities in Adobe AIR 2 beta
  Find out how to access data from a sound card and save it to the hard drive or encapsulate it as a WAV file.
• Creating accessible Adobe AIR applications with the Adobe Flex SDK
  Design for the visually impaired by using existing layout and UI options to support screen reader software.

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