With the recent AIR SDK 1.0 launch, I am curious to who is playing around with it. Any body building apps? porting Applications? For fun? Please post links/your work, If you would like to share.
I think it looks interesting and I will be giving it a trial starting sometime next week.
One potential indicator for future acceptance of this technology is the number of books scheduled for release during 2008 featuring Adobe Air - just take a look at the Amazon list. While certainly not a foolproof indicator it does show just how many authors and publishers are prepared to bet something on future take-up.
Didn't we just spend the last N+1 years desperately trying to avoid client-side downloads and installs? Seriously though, maybe in a few years, if and when the runtime comes pre-installed in most OSs/browsers (or something similar).
There is a engineering release of the Linux Air release! A friend forwarded me the limited release announcement. But, I'm not sure how'd you get a copy?
"Q: Is this a public announcement?
A: No. This announcement is intended only for Adobe prerelease members.
Q: What exactly are you announcing?
A: We have posted the first engineering builds of the Adobe AIR runtime installer and SDK for Linux. In addition, we have posted several applications. You should consider these builds only alpha quality.
Q: Is the AIR on Linux feature complete?
A: No, please see the release notes for what’s currently not implemented. For example, key features such as printing, hardware acceleration, badge installation, keyboard accelerators and screen API’s are not yet completed. For a complete list, please see the release notes ... "
I will strongly recommended you to take a look at jnext (http://www.jnext.org)
free, open source and cross platform - and most of all it is powered by the community and none of the giants
One potential indicator for future acceptance of this technology is the number of books scheduled for release during 2008 featuring Adobe Air - just take a look at the Amazon list. While certainly not a foolproof indicator it does show just how many authors and publishers are prepared to bet something on future take-up.