Chapter 1. Running AIR Applications

Rather than starting to develop your own Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) application right out of the box, this first chapter instead covers how to run any AIR application. This knowledge, and some of the initial setup, are required when it’s time to test your own work. More important, these are the steps that any potential user of your program needs to take to see the magic you’ve created.

To begin, I cover how to install the Adobe Integrated Runtime on both Windows and Mac OS X (Linux support for AIR will be added in later versions of the technology). After the runtime has been successfully installed, you’ll see how easy it is to install any AIR application. Finally, you’ll run that application on your ...

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