Are you interested in learning about AIR? AIR Central is open once again and now has many new AIR specific tutorials on how to do things like write files to the operating system, create images from AIR, use the AIR HTML control, Drag and Drop from the desktop into AIR, use the AIR/JavaScript bridge, and talk between AIR and the browser via LocalConnection. Check out these tutorials within AIR Central.

Ever wonder what happened to the AIR bus after Max 2007? So did I.

A new video has surfaced and the AIR bus is back! http://stillonair.blogspot.com/

Back on June 14, 2006 I made my first post on the new Adobe desktop runtime which was known as Apollo at that time. This post was critical of the Macromedia Central and offered hope for those of us in the Flex development world to bring our skills to the desktop.

Since that time, I have been very involved in the development of the Apollo/AIR product. I have written over 70 posts on this blog, created Apollo Central which has now been replaced by AIR Central produced articles for Adobe, written a book for Wrox called Beginning AIR (shipping 3/17/08), and presented on AIR at Max 2007 Chicago.

It seems like it has all come so quickly but looking back, I can see that it has been nearly 2 years! I can only imagine the internal struggles within Adobe to create this new revolutionary product and I would like to offer my congratulations to the AIR team for a job well done.

What’s next? AIR on Linux? AIR on devises? With each port of the runtime to new operating systems, our world as developers will expand and will generally come pain free as the runtime handles 99% of the discrepancies in deployment.

Once again, congrats to all of those who have made AIR 1.0 a real product.

The ultimate Flex has landed (well, at least until Flex 4)

Congratulations to the Flex team for producing an amazing new API for Flex 3. The upgrades to both the Flex Framework as well as Flex Builder are huge.

Drag and Drop from the desktop to an AIR application is one of the new features of AIR.

Basically, I add the event listeners to the application to handle the drag events. Then when a file is dropped onto the application, I check the file extension and then handle it if is an image file or throw an alert if not. You can certainly update the switch statement to handle additional file extensions differently.
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