Adobe AIR

suresh_nsnguys · Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 41

Adobe AIR(Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a fantastic new technology that greatly expands the ways in which you can create desktop applications.

Traditionally, programs like Microsoft Word, the Firefox Web Browser, and Adobe Reader have been written in a programming language like C or C++. Learning such technologies, while not hard, takes some effort, and making graphical applications, let alone cross-platform apps, using them in an even larger hurdle.

Now, with Adobe AIR you can use whatever Web development know-how you have be it Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex or standard Ajax(HTML and Javascript) - to create fully functional desktop applications that will run equally well on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

lamp_abi · Joined: 08 Mar 2010 Posts: 4

I have Adobe AIR installed only because I'm using Tweetdeck- which wouldn't run without it. I've noticed several Twitter Apps are requiring Adobe AIR. I've read some complain of it though. Thankfully I haven't had problems with mine.