Please explain AIR
- Started
- Last post
- 19 Responses
- Kiko
Can someone please explain the benefits of having Adobe AIR applications. Why would someone want to have to download the player, and then this application. when you can do it all online?
Thanks
- Stugoo0
because if you want to work offline then you can....
tbh ive personally never seen the benefits.although one of my old AS devs built a communal music player for us to use.
- ephix0
it's also beneficial because it runs separate from the browser.
- ItalianStallion0
With AIR you also have a "File" and "Folder" object you do not have within Flex web application wich allows you to read and write files and folders on your computer.
Sometimes applications need to write preferences on AppFolder and so on...
Plus, you may not need to go online...
- Shaney0
as above, practical use : I've used it to build desktop calculators for kitchen sales reps to calculate worktop sq mitre sizes and full quotes in customers home/locations where might no internet
- It's a matter of security too...ItalianStallion
- that's some good uses. thank youKiko
- Federico sei italiano?ItalianStallion
- si, but I cant write itKiko
- I see, if you need some other help with AIR drop me a mail.ItalianStallion
- thank you. I was just wondering whats its benefits are, they do not seem like many.Kiko
- ukit0
I'm not sure the platform will be successful. How many AIR apps do people use? Maybe Tweetdeck but that's the only one I can think of.
- visionary0
Some people say not to worry about the air
Some people never had experience with...
Air...Air
- johndiggity0
i just installed social seek. but it pulls real time data from the web so i'm not sure why it was an air app.
- jhey0
couple of AIR apps...
http://toki-woki.net/p/FFFFOUND-…
http://tweetdeck.com/beta/
- Mal0
2 french poofters.
- craighooper0
It's essentially useless. Developers go ape-shit over it, but will the general public begin to adopt it, and start downloading AIR apps to use when offline (when is anyone "offline", anyway)? I highly, highly doubt it.
Made by developers, for developers.
- ukit0
Adobe has started to look a little tone deaf lately.
I mean, cmon, is anyone going to use that online productivity suite they just launched?
- Pupsipu0
they're spreading AIR around because they don't want to bundle certain functionality into the Flash Player even though they could. Like saving multiple files is not possible in Flash, but possible in AIR.
The justification is probably "security."
Also AIR can run HTML/JS just like browsers, so you can make your ajax browser apps into AIR apps, and not wait for the browsers to add local storage functionality.
- jsaul0
plus Air kind of bridges the gap between web and desktop development, if you know AS3 or HTML/CSS + AJAX, then you can build desktop software in more or less the same way you build online apps, i think if someone has a good use for it people would go with it.
- version30
breathe in, that's air, breathe out, that's not.
hug a tree because you're alive today
Adobe ripped nature btw- wrong. breathe in that's oxygen. breathe out that's carbon dioxide. both are in air.duckofrubber
- styleplus_amillion0
AIR is strictly for ballaholics Gs and Big Pimps.
If you don't know what's up with AIR, then you probably don't fall into these categories, and thusly should not be PRODUCING content on a computing machine.it's best for you to revert to CONSUMER status
- consider AIR explained.styleplus_amillion
- damn, you just don't get the hint. no one wants you around here polluting shit with your inane babbleacescence
- i like this explanation of AIR. bravo.sublocked
- thanks sublocked. It's always good when a G recognizes another certified G. Keep bangin.styleplus_amillion
- styleplus_amillion0
@acescence
go and suck your moms dick.- also, learn to speak singularly (in representation of yourself only) ...after you've read the notes above this post.styleplus_amillion
- SteveJobs0
two benefits (and perhaps the ONLY ones i can think of off-hand) is the ability to easily support both browser and desktop-based versions of your software
and the ability to write a cross-platform java-esque application that doesn't require you to learn the win32 api and carbon/cocoa, but instead leverage your as3 knowledge.
but yeah, haven't seen many of these air apps around.
- ukit0
Don't get me wrong, there are some cool looking UIs, I'm just not seeing it used on a mass level for anything other than checking Twitter messages.
Take a look through the Adobe AIR directory. 99.9998% of them are vaporware tossed off because someone at Company X said "hey, I'm hearing about this AIR thing, don't we need that?"
Oh yeah and Styleplus if you have an example of your Ballaholic Big Pimpin AIR application post it, that might be fun actually.