Aug 23rd, 2010
Adobe AIR Launchpad – a tool for Flex developers building AIR applications
During the past two years, I’ve met a lot of developers going through the process of learning to build desktop applications on Adobe AIR. As they learn AIR, these developers face the same set of challenges — enabling auto-update, setting up icons, creating an install badge, accessing the SQLite database, and using the many other [...]
Jun 18th, 2010
Adobe AIR – common auto-update issues when upgrading your app to AIR 2.0
Earlier this week, I was updating an AIR app originally built on AIR 1.1 to AIR 2.0. I changed my namespace to 2.0 (so I could take advantage of some new AIR 2.0 specific APIs), built my .airi file, signed it and tried to install it. I expected it to prompt me to upgrade [...]
Feb 2nd, 2010
Flex 3.5 SDK bug impacted AIR auto-update now FIXED in 3.5a
The Flex 3.5 SDK broke the ApplicationUpdaterUI, a commonly used component for enabling auto-update in AIR apps as described in my earlier blog post. Today, the Flex SDK team post version 3.5a that addresses this bug. Here are the notes from QA on the bug: The Flex team has updated the 3.5 SDK with a [...]
Oct 14th, 2009
Updated: Adding auto update features to your AIR application in 3 easy steps
In August, 2008, I blogged “Adding auto update features to your AIR application in 3 easy steps“. It gets many views every day so I spent a little time today updating it to be AIR 1.5 compatible and to include a few common mistakes that developers make when implementing auto-update. I’ll do a new blog [...]
Aug 16th, 2008
Adding auto update features to your AIR application in 3 easy steps
UPDATED 08/27/2010: We just released Adobe AIR Launchpad, a new desktop tool that helps Adobe Flex developers get started building desktop applications deployed on Adobe AIR. Auto-update is an included feature, so you can use Launchpad to generate your auto-update code. Native Installers now can have auto-update!: If you need to add auto-update to your [...]
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