Ashutosh Sharma

We're pleased to announce the availability of Adobe AIR 2 Beta on Adobe Labs. The Runtime and SDK are available for download on all supported platforms - Windows, Mac and Linux.

AIR 2 includes several highly-requested features. Some of the prominent features of AIR 2 are:

• Server sockets
• Open documents with the user's default application
• Microphone data access
• .rpm and .deb packages for Linux
• Launch native executables
• USB mass storage device detection
• Global Error Handling
• UDP sockets
• TLS/SSL sockets
• DNS lookup
• Packaging an AIR application in a native installer
• Database transaction savepoints
• Screen reader support (Windows only)
• Printing enhancements
• Increased maximum size of NativeWindow
• Multi-touch events (Windows only)

For a detailed list of features and system requirements, please see the AIR 2 release notes.

Together with AIR 2, Flash Player 10.1 is also now available. For more details, please see the complete list of features.

As always, please let us know if you run into any issues.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 7:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Adobe AIR 1.5.2 is now available for download. This is a minor release - for a complete list of API changes and bug fixes, please see the release notes.

This release is focused on making the runtime more robust and secure. As always, please feel free to report a bug/feature request, or to discuss any issues you might be having.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 12:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We've been working on new features for the next version of AIR (such as 64-bit binaries and .deb/.rpm installers for AIR), as well as on fixing bugs reported by users (reported via the Adobe Wish Form, via blog posts and on Twitter).

To iron out as many issues as possible before coming out with a public release, we'd like to invite users to help test pre-release builds. If you're interested and comfortable working with pre-release software, please send an email to the AIR Linux program manager at rahul - dot - bansal - at - adobe - dot - com with answers to the following questions:

1. Will you be able to submit bug reports on issues that you find back to our development team?
2. How many hours a week can you spend testing on Linux?
3. What is the primary distribution of Linux that you’re using? If you are using more than one distribution, please list.
4. Will you be developing applications on your Linux machine (as opposed to writing on Windows and testing the applications on Linux)?
5. What other operating system are you using, if any (Mac, Windows)? Can you compare the behavior of AIR for Linux with AIR for Windows and AIR for Mac OS?
6. Are you working on an AIR application today? If so, please describe.

Please include your name, email address and your company's name.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 6:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Adobe Reader 9.1 for Linux and Solaris x86 has been released today. Solaris x86 support was one of the most requested feature by users. As per the Reader team's announcement, this release includes the following major features:

    - Support for Tabbed Viewing (preview)
    - Super fast launch, and better performance than previous releases
    - Integration with Acrobat.com
    - IPv6 support
    - Enhanced support for PDF portfolios (preview)

The complete list is available here.

Adobe Reader 9.1 is now available for download and works on OpenSolaris, Solaris 10 and most modern Linux distributions such as Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva 2009, SLED 10, Mint Linux 6 and Fedora 10.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 7:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Adobe AIR Marketplace is a central resource that allows developers to make their applications available to millions of potential users and makes it easy for consumers to find them.

The new AIR marketplace was launched a few days ago and features a brand new look and several new features. Do check it out!

Related links:

• Introducing Adobe AIR Marketplace
• AIR Marketplace FAQ (also provides details about publishing your own AIR application)

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 2:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)

Based on community feedback, a pre-release version of native 64-bit Flash Player 10 is now available on Adobe Labs (x86-64, Linux).

Check out the announcement on the Linux Flash Player blog!

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 2:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Aligned with Adobe MAX 2008, we've just released AIR 1.5 for Windows and Macintosh. This release includes the following new features:

- Flash Player 10 features including 3D effects, pixel bender, new drawing API, dynamic media streaming, dynamic sound API, and more
- Updated WebKit HTML engine with greatly improved JavaScript performance
- Encrypted local SQL database support
- JavaScript debugging support
- Support for five additional languages (Swedish, Dutch, Czech, Turkish, and Polish)
- Updated DRM engine

The Linux version is expected soon.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 12:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We just released the beta version of Adobe AIR for Linux on Adobe Labs!

This Labs release of AIR has all features implemented for Linux, except support for DRM and badge installations. Major new features include support for system tray icons, keyboard shortcuts, localization, internationalized input (IME support), filetype registration, SWF and PDF in HTML, multi-monitor support, fullscreen mode, encrypted local storage, support for V4L2 cameras and printing.

The list of supported distributions has also been updated to:

1. Ubuntu 7.10
2. Fedora 8
3. OpenSuSE 10.3

Any AIR application that works on Windows/Mac AIR release version 1.1 should ideally work on Linux too, except if it uses DRM features. Let us know if you face any issues.

Release notes provide more details about system requirements, installation instructions and any known issues.

Go get some fresh AIR and let us know how it works out for you!

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 12:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (21)