Comments on: Hello World! – Adobe Air on Ubuntu and Windows

By: poundy

poundy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:14:39 +0000

What is also interesting is, you can make your existing website air capable. You can check if your website is being viewed as an air application by checking if air.runtime is present. If this variable is set you can do all kind of things with JS to show notifications, alerts, drag n drop, etc.. etc.. (without any flash just JS ofcourse!)

By: sh0rtwave

sh0rtwave — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:14:12 +0000

@ggruschow
It’s worth mentioning that this approach (the “huge mess of XML and HTML” is NOT the only way of approaching AIR development.
There’s also MXML which lets you build UIs using standard components, (and then you can customize from there).
MXML is essentially a large set of compiler macros. It seems like a lot at first glance, but it’s actually very well done.
What do you mean by “mandatory dialogs”?

By: ggruschow

ggruschow — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:12:55 +0000

Thanks a lot!
I keep thinking I should look at AIR for some apps I’d like to develop, and seeing a huge mess of XML and HTML just to do the standard “Hello World” gives me enough pause that I can put it off again. Just to validate though, I tried some of the sample apps, and the number of mandatory dialogs users would have to go through just to get started is a nice confirmation that I don’t need to be using this anytime soon. Finally, I got to use some of the apps. I haven’t used anything so quick, responsive, and natural feeling since Java 1.0.

It’s great posts like these that really help me improve my planning and boost my productivity.

By: Sam Johnson

Sam Johnson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:21:41 +0000

Also see 30+ adobe air apps in action. From finance to productivity to music etc etc

mashable.com/2008/06/06/adobe-air-applications/