Month: August, 2007

Use Adobe Air Only When Flash/Flex Doesn’t Suffice!

29 August, 2007 (09:04) | AIR, Adobe Apollo, Flex, Rant | 8 comments

A little rant here.  I know Adobe AIR is new sexy and everyone’s trying to build apps that run naively on the desktop, but please, if you’re not making use of local filesystem, native windows, drag-and-drop, SQLLite, native menus, or any other of the useful AIR APIs, you should really consider not releasing it as [...]

How to compile both Flex and AIR Application from the same codebase.

9 August, 2007 (14:42) | AIR, Adobe Apollo, Flex | 3 comments

Today, I decided it would be easier for me to demonstrate my AIR application to end users if they could just go to a link on a website.  However, getting AIR code to compile into a Flex SWF file, isn’t as simple as I initially thought.  Naturally, there’s the additional APIs that AIR allows the developer [...]