It tooks me more than six month to create a fresh new tutorial, but finally here it is!
This tutorial shows how to automatically update an AIR application when a more recent AIR file is on Internet.
I hope it is easy to follow and clear :)
You can see all my AS3 video tutorial here.
This tutorial use the côdeazur Class available here.
Ahmet
While cleaning my PC, I noticed several old AIR applications I installed only on testing purpose. As they were installed with a old version of AIR, I was asked to upgrade my AIR application to be able to delete it…
Deleting the AIR plugin solved the problem :)
Ahmet
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A very good news for all AIR developer or for all people hesitating to use AIR for future applications. AIR is bundled in Acrobat Reader 9 (released yesterday), as Acrobat Reader is still one of the most downloaded software of Adobe [it is my assumption, I couldn't find any stats :(] it will certainly help a lot the penetration of AIR (which I couldn’t find any stats either…). It is interesting to note that some people tend to see bundled software like an unfair ways of doing distributing applications, some commented onRyan Stewart’s post concern about security and posted a link to a sample of trojan injection via PDF. Even if I was aware of some security problems with Flash and Acrobat, I didn’t knew this method to inject .exe via a PDF. Personally I understand those concern, an incredible high number of user don’t update their software and so are more vulnerable to attack. I think that Adobe could offer the choice to people, even if for the developers and for market share it is not as profitable :) |
Ahmet
Just a quick note to relay the information, Adobe’s great idea of offering online community driven cookbook is now extended to AIR.
