FlexUnit with AIR & Ant

Since last week FlexUnit has a new home on Adobe Open Source and I thought it would be the time to finalize my post about FlexUnit with AIR and Ant which I had in the pipe for a longer time.

You can run Ant via command line or from within Eclipse which provides an Ant panel if [...]

Popup/Alert parent in Multi-window AIR Application

When you build a multi-window AIR application you have to care about the parent Sprite/DisplayObject you set for popups opened with the PopupManager and Alert.

In a single application you probably used this:

PopUpManager.addPopUp(yourView, Application.application as DisplayObject, modal);

Problem is when you call this from a view which lives in a native window and not in the main application [...]

AIR 1.1 released and new AIR stuff on Adobe Labs

AIR 1.1 was released yesterday and comes with localization features, certificate migration feature and new API calls for File.spaceAvailable and NativeWindow.supportsTransparency. Further 1.1 includes minor bugfixes and memory improvements.

If you develop with Flex Builder be sure to read how to use AIR 1.1 with Flex. There is another Adobe Developer Center article by Christian Cantrell on [...]

AIR in Enterprise IT

Oliver Goldman from the AIR team has blogged great information about AIR-in-the-enterprise and the support of AIR enterprise deployment and configuration.

Yesterday the new site AIR for IT administrators was launched and provides white papers on deployment, security and configuration.

As Oliver pointed already out ReadWriteWeb has a very interesting article about AIR apps on the corporate desktop.

InfoQ [...]

on AIR tour Berlin links

The on AIR tour in Berlin yesterday was really a great event. The location and catering was really good and all was very well organized. What a pity we did not have more time in Berlin as the weather was so sunny.

Here just a summary of all speakers:

Adobe

Mike Chambers
Ryan Stewart
Kevin Hoyt
Ethan Malasky
Serge Jespers
Daniel Dura
Lee Brimelow

External speakers

Benjamin [...]

on AIR tour Berlin

Today I am at the on AIR tour in Berlin. The event is pretty cool and now the last session with Lee Brimelow just started.

Here a quick picture and more [...]