Adobe Integrated Runtime
Adobe has finally christened their latest piece of technology, Apollo. It is now officially known as the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
For the uninitiated, the Adobe Integrated Runtime is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. It is essentially running on our favourite Flash Platform and the easiest way for AIR is using the Adobe Flex Builder 3.
With the AIR, perhaps the dream on developing applications based on one platform and having it to work seamlessly on various operating systems can finally be realized. Find out more about the first public release of Flex 3, AIR and Flash Player 9 update over at the Adobe Labs.
As for the latest Flash Player Update 3 Beta 1 (build 9.0.60.120), major changes include improved video performance and faster rendering of vector graphics on multi-core CPUs. The Flash Player will be taking advantage of the hardware accelerated video, tapping onto the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) when watching video in the full-screen mode. People in the Linux camp will have something to cheer for as the update will now support full-screen mode on Linux.
Tinic Uro covered a very extensive update on the changes, head to kaourantin.net to get more of the juicy updates.
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I’ve used Adobe Integrated Runtime in several of my projects.
It’s cross platform capability, truly enhance our work effectiveness.
Expecting new breakthroughs from Adobe.