We are pleased to announce that the current version of Adobe AIR (1.5.2) supports Windows 7. For additional information on supported operating systems, please see our Adobe AIR system requirements page.
Major League Baseball released an Adobe AIR application called MLB.com OnBase. The application provides information about your favorite baseball teams including news, recent comments on Twitter, scores, schedule information and more. You can also configure the application to display desktop notifications when news is posted about your favorite teams (be the first to know!). You can post directly to your Twitter account from the application as well. Congratulations to the team that at MLB that created MLB.com OnBase!
We are pleased to announce that Adobe AIR 1.5.2 is now available for download. Adobe AIR 1.5.2 is a minor update that includes bug fixes related to reliability, compatibility and security. For additional details on changes from the previous release (AIR 1.5.1) including bug fixes, API changes and known issues, please see the Adobe AIR 1.5.2 developer release notes.
In addition, I encourage developers building AIR applications to read the article "Overview of the Flash Player 10.0.32 Security Update" on the Adobe Developer Connection website. This article describes some of the security-related enhancements related to both Flash Player 10.0.32 (also just released) and Adobe AIR 1.5.2.
What are we up to next? We are continuing to work hard on the next major release of Adobe AIR and we're looking forward to sharing more details including teaser demos soon. If you have feedback on AIR 1.5.2 or in general, please let us know by dropping us a note directly using our feedback form or on the Adobe AIR discussion forum. We greatly appreciate hearing feedback from the community!
Tom Barclay and I visited the folks at Domani Studios in Brooklyn today and they showed us www.wechoosethemoon.org which is part of a great new campaign celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
As a member of the Apollo team here at Adobe, I personally thought the subject matter was really exciting. And hte site showcases a huge collection of video and photos from the JFK presidential library. Domani also did a great job with some 3-D video flyovers of the shuttle – you can click to zoom around as the rocket is waiting to be launched.
But as a current member of the Adobe AIR team, what I really like about the site is how they are providing a widget that extends the experience beyond their own website. There is a simple "get the widget" button that allows you to download and install a widget and track a replay of the launch in real time.
The widget can be installed as an AIR application, as well as embedded directly into your MySpace or Facebook page. It provides a countdown timer, a bit of information about the status of a real-time replay of the mission, and ties into twitter to make the experience even more social.
Lately, I've been seeing more and more examples of these types of applications that use Flash to deliver an application in the browser, beyond the browser and across social networks.
The 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch is Thursday at 9:23 am ET, and the "landing" is on Monday – so go check out www.wechoosethemoon.org today.
During the Flash Camp Keynote in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch mentioned that AIR reached over 200 million installs. We've gotten some questions from developers about that number, so this is a quick post to confirm that as of June 1, 2009, AIR has been installed on over 200 million desktop computers worldwide.
With 100 million installs in the first 10 months of availability, and 200 million in just 16 months the rate of adoption continues to accelerate as more applications are developed and come to market.
The Acrobat.com application built by Adobe and provided with Adobe Reader continues to be one of the most popular applications. Many of the early adopters like TweetDeck and eBay Desktop continue to be broadly used and we're seeing many new applications that are gaining popularity including:
In addition to those large brands, we're excited by the smaller companies that are achieving incredible reach with their applications. Seesmic Desktop now says they are getting about 10,000 downloads a day driven by their integration with Facebook and Twitter.
It's also exciting to see enterprises widely adopting Adobe AIR. So far, these applications aren't driving as many installs of the runtime as the media and social applications, but they are helping to confirm the reach the Flash Platform has established in the enterprise. We've recently talked about the improved integration with Salesforce, seen Oracle using Adobe AIR to deliver CRM widgets , and discovered that SAP xCelsius provides support for AIR. We're also starting to see ISVs deliver applications to the enterprise on Adobe AIR:
And finally, for folks who have asked how AIR is gaining traction in the government, I want to share one of my favorite apps. The Finance Ministry in Poland built an AIR application to assist their citizens in filing their income taxes.
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