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Getting Creative with Adobe AIRPeter Elst - The ActionScript Conference 2009
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Who is Peter?
✤ Freelance Flash Platform Consultant
✤ Adobe Community Expert for RIA
✤ Adobe Certified Instructor
✤ Author to a number of ActionScript books including “Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0”
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This was last year...
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RIA meets Desktop
✤ Introduction to Adobe AIR
✤ How to build AIR applications
✤ Network, Windowing, HTML, FileSystem, SQLite, Drag ‘n Drop, Clipboard access, Update API’s,...
What else could I possibly talk about?
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Thinking outside the box
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Creative uses of the technology
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AIR is more than Twitter clients
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New York TimesReader
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TWiT Live Desktop
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web + desktop = ?
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a new paradigm to be explored
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What makes Adobe AIR so special
✤ Allows you to use your existing web development skills
✤ Free tools, no costs involved to develop apps
✤ Cross platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) and support for mobile and devices is on the roadmap
✤ Bridges web and desktop environments in a secure way
Its fun to play around with!
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HelloWorld in AIR
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Detecting if AIR is installed
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Launching apps from the browser
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Record streaming audio
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Screensaver
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Screensaver (Windows only)
✤ Inspired by Keith Peters
✤ Make a full screen AIR application
✤ Export the AIR application and install
✤ Rename the .exe to .scr and distribute
Note: bypassing the AIR installer is not recommended practice (but works most of the time) ;)
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SQLite wrapper
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SQLite wrapper (top secret)
✤ To be announced at Flash on the Beach later this month
✤ Make it (very) easy to work with local databases
✤ Features so far included setting up and querying databases
✤ New release will have support for basic online/offline synchronization
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Conclusion
✤ Don’t let technology limit your imagination
✤ Don’t see desktop and web as separate environments
✤ Do experiment with features and hack around
✤ Do things you love and share them with the community
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Q&A
✤ Have you played with Adobe AIR?
✤ What do you like about it?
✤ How do you see the web and desktop converging?
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Thank you!
Feel free to get in touch with questions, feedback or ideas for projects!
blog: www.peterelst.comemail: [email protected]: @peterelst