Adobe E-Seminar: Building Adobe AIR Applications with Flash CS3

Josh and I will be speaking about Adobe AIR (the runtime formerly known as Apollo) on July 18th at 1PM EST.

Here’s the details:

Building Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) applications with Flash CS3 Joshua Hirsch, Minister of Technology, Big Spaceship and Jamie Kosoy, Senior Developer, Big Spaceship.

With the release of Flash CS3, developers now have an alternative to FlexBuilder for building and deploying applications for Adobe AIR, the exciting new desktop runtime environment from Adobe.

Topics will include:

• setting up Flash for creating AIR applications
• step by step through the workflow of building apps in Flash
• AIR Actionscript API
• tips and tricks

The seminar is free. All you need is to register with Adobe.com.

Sign up now!

AS3: APIs

Just a reminder that there’s lots of APIs out there already for your AS3 (and even AS2) needs.

Adobe’s APIs contain corelib, mappr, flickr, youtube and more.
Yahoo AS3 APIs
ebay API

Know some more good ones? Post ‘em.

Animator: XML Motion

Kind of a Holy-Grail for Flash Developers is to be able to turn a timeline animation into code and reuse the code on other graphic elements. Flash CS3 has taken a nice first step with the Animator class (fl.motion.Animator). Animator is used to tween an object via xml. The xml can be written from scratch (not so much fun) or generated from a timeline tween (much fun!!) via the Comands (menu) –> copy motion as xml.

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A Breath of Flash AIR

Apollo has officially been renamed AIR. Now you want to know how to use Flash CS3 to begin developing AIR applications. After downloading the SDK you will notice it does not contain a global.swc file as the previous version did. Reading the docs would make you think you can only use an HTML editor or Flex 3 to develop for AIR currently. Fear not fellow Flashers help is on the way.
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Apollo = AIR

Adobe has released a bunch of new stuff on their labs site today, including the first public beta of the Apollo runtime and SDK. This includes the announcement of the official name being changed to Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR.

Also released are betas of ColdFusion 8, Flex 3 and the next Flash Player upgrade.