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Think you can solve common Adobe AIR related coding problems? Then you qualify for the Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-off contest, sponsored by O'Reilly Media, to celebrate the upcoming publication of the Adobe AIR Cookbook. During this contest, we invite you to submit your best solutions to common AIR coding challenges for a chance to win a pass to MAX 2008 and some other great prizes. Read the announcement for more details, and be sure to tell your fellow developers about this opportunity.

Posted by Michael Koch at 08:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yesterday, we launched Adobe AIR 1.1, which includes support for localized and international applications. To help grow the AIR developer community, we also launched a beta version of the Adobe AIR cookbook, where you can post solutions and work-arounds to common coding problems related to building Flex, Flash, or HTML/Ajax-based apps on Adobe AIR, as well as rate and comment on posts.

If you have a solution related to building on AIR, be sure to post it to the AIR cookbook for a chance to have your solution appear in the upcoming Adobe AIR Cookbook. The book will be written and compiled by David Tucker, Marco Casario, Rich Tretola, and Koen De Weggheleire and published by O’Reilly Media. All posts will receive equal consideration.

For information on the online AIR cookbook, go to the AIR Developer Center; for more infor on the upcoming O'Reilly AIR Cookbook, check out David Tucker's blog.

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Adobe Media Player ("don't call it AMP!") was unleashed a couple days ago and -- to support the product's debut -- we launched a developer center to facilitate the "behind the scenes" coding you can do with Adobe Media Player. It's not exactly a developer tool, but Adobe Media Player runs on RSS feeds that you can play with. (Hey, it's also an Adobe AIR application -- that's pretty cool.)

Check out the new Adobe Media Player Developer Center to learn about the new desktop media player and understand how it consumes Media RSS feeds. You can also download the Content Developer Kit. It's a big PDF file now but we will be producing excerpts on the website over the coming days.

Posted by Stefan Gruenwedel, Flash & Fireworks editor at 10:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Mike Chambers and Frog Design have done an excellent job compiling an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe technology platform runtimes: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR, as well as the Adobe Flex framework APIs.

Use this guide both as an API reference and a tool to learn about the ActionScript APIs available within the runtimes. Mike says that this document is released under a Creative Commons license (people can redistribute, edit, and print). You could probably even have the source Adobe InDesign file if you wanted it. It'll definitely be handed out at conferences -- and maybe even the on AIR Tour now crisscrossing Europe.

Posted by Stefan Gruenwedel, Flash & Fireworks editor at 10:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

If you happened to attend MAX 2007 in Chicago, you were among the first to see a demo of an enticing and entertaining new desktop shopping experience courtesy of e-commerce solution provider Allurent —Allurent Desktop Connection. Allurent built the prototype in Flex on AIR for Anthropologie, the women's apparel and home goods retailer, and Daniel Rinehart, software architect at Allurent, shares some of his experiences working on the app.

Check out his article, User experience considerations with SQLite operations, in which he explores how to manipulate information in a SQLite database using the rich APIs provided by the AIR runtime to produce the rich interactive shopping experience demoed at MAX 2007.

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Engage 2008 came and went (what, you didn't get the invite? neither did anyone I know, including me) but you can see what happened early in the day by viewing this 50-min. video of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and CTO Kevin Lynch presenting in front of the audience of "key thought leaders and influencers."

If you can't get enough of Engage 2008, there's aways Scoble's shaky Qik videos to entertain you.

Posted by Stefan Gruenwedel, Flash & Fireworks editor at 04:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Last night, on the occasion of the public release of the Adobe AIR runtime, we went live with new and updated content in the Adobe AIR Developer Center. Now that the AIR runtime is out of Labs, we hope to make the AIR Developer Center your destination for tips on building AIR apps, as well as a source of inspiration for what you can do with AIR--from fun to functional. For example, in Sudoku on AIR , Giorgio Natili demonstrates how easy it is to bring a browser-based Flash app to the desktop, and Nicolas Lierman, creator of the Analytics Reporting Suite for Google Analytics, shares how AIR helped him realize his idea of a cool, new app. You, too, can build on AIR. Let me know what you think, or what AIR-related topics you're interested in.

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