Chapter 20. Working with AIR
Understanding AIR
The Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR, allows you to take the skills that you have already developed in building rich Internet applications and apply them to desktop applications. Your applications need not be bound to a Web browser; with AIR, you can create true desktop applications that work across multiple platforms.
The Adobe Integrated Runtime
The foundation of these cross-platform applications is the Adobe Integrated Runtime. Similar conceptually to the Java Runtime, Adobe's runtime allows you to develop an application once and be assured that it will run in Windows, Macintosh, or Linux environments. The runtime takes your code and translates it into platform-specific code so that you do not need ...
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