Adobe AIR 2 software is the next version of the Adobe Flash Platform runtime for delivering web applications beyond the browser. Now, Adobe AIR lets you use ActionScript(R) or JavaScript languages to quickly build powerful web applications for the desktop on Mac OSX, Microsoft(R) Windows(R), and Linux(R) operating systems. New features include performance improvements that help pave the way for mobile devices, multi-touch and gestures, enhanced support for mass storage devices, peer-to-peer networking, and UDP networking. You can now use Adobe AIR 2 to extend your applications even further with platform-specific native code.
AIR 2 builds on the success of AIR 1 by giving developers new capabilities, and even tighter integration with the desktop. Some new features of AIR 2 include:
- Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
- Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.
- Support for native code integration.
- The ability to open a file with its default application.
- Multi-touch and gesture support.
- New APIs for access to raw microphone data.
- Webkit update with HTML5/CSS3 support.
- Global error handling.
- Improved cross-platform printing
- Improved security and support for enterprise and government standards.
For a complete list of features, please refer to the Release Notes.
For an overview of the new features in AIR 2, please read Robert Christensen's Introducing Adobe AIR 2 beta article or watch Christian Cantrell's MAX 2009 presentation, What's Coming in Adobe AIR 2.
The AIR 2 Public Beta is your opportunity to explore new features and communicate your feedback. Please remember that that this is beta software, so there will be bugs, incomplete features, some performance issues, and some missing documentation. Therefore, please use the AIR 2 Beta only for testing and exploratory purposes.
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