My first AIR app

August 15th 2007

Ok, so yesterdays AIR Tour in Atlanta was awesome. I finally got the time to actually write something too. During the presentations we saw the HTML browser in AIR example, yet again. I think this example is really nice as it shows how AIR encapsulates a large complex problem into a simple tag solution. However I think the example gets lost quick as most people don’t see a real use in that. I can hear the IT Manager: ‘Ugh, why do I need this AIR, we have IE?’. Although the example does show that you can quickly and easily wrap your web app with AIR and completely remove any issue with that back button as well as add some branding of sorts maybe. You can also ‘mash’ a existing web app with a new Flex based app inside AIR with this. I think it would be good to add a few of these, or other, ideas into this example.

That said, it is wonderful example to get started with AIR, of course AFTER you write your Hello World app! Thus I created a HTML browser in AIR yesterday, with a few additions. Namely, I’ve created a tabbed browser. Its not feature rich or anything, hey we all have IE and that’s all we need, right? :) Ok, Ok. Those Apple folks have Jungle, err Outback? Oh, Safari! hehe.

Here is the zip to the source. It is Flex based of course. Enjoy!
TabbedBrowserInAIR

updated: as Rostislav Siryk pointed out, be a good idea to post the AIR file, eh? So here it is:
TabbedBrowserInAIR AIR File

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2 Responses to “My first AIR app”

  1. Ryan Stewart
    August 15th, 2007 | 2:26 pm

    Cool! Glad you enjoyed playing with AIR. Hope you had fun at the event. We definitely did.

    =Ryan
    rstewart@adobe.com

  2. Rostislav Siryk
    August 17th, 2007 | 1:18 pm

    Yep, the HTML component of AIR is just a great mover. Through such components AIR not only brings the web solutions like Flex Framework to the desktop, but makes them even more effective. For example, you’ll get no troubles if try to access the whole page as bitmap data in AIR but this is completely impossible in “regular” flash player.

    That’s why experiment with Google 3D Map become possible, so I made this little app to feel the AIR :)

    BTW, why don’t you upload and AIR installer of your app, this gives quick access to everyone interested :)

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