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Which Storage Devices Are Considered Removable?

Nov 19, 2009 9:06 PM
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How the new storage volume detection APIs work, and how AIR determines whether a volume is considered removable or not. (translate)

Demonstration of Gesture APIs in AIR 2

Nov 18, 2009 4:22 PM
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I don't have a multi-touch computer (yet), but I do have a MacBook with a multi-touch trackpad which means I can write AIR 2 applications that incorporate gestures. The video below demonstrates a few of the new gesture APIs in AIR 2... (translate)

AIR 2 Public Beta Resources

Nov 17, 2009 5:09 AM
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The AIR 2 public beta is now live! Below are all the links you'll need to learn more and get started... (translate)

A Demonstration of the New Encrypted Socket Support in AIR 2

Nov 13, 2009 3:31 PM
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I've been wanting to write my own email notifier in AIR for a long time, but without support for encrypted sockets, it wasn't easy to do. But now that AIR 2 added the new SecureSocket class, I was able to write a pretty functional email notifier in just a couple of days... (translate)

A Demonstration of the NativeProcess APIs in AIR 2

Nov 12, 2009 3:27 PM
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SearchCentral uses the new NativeProcess APIs in AIR 2 in order to integrate with Spotlight and provide very fast local file system search. Here's a demo... (translate)

A Demonstration of the New Storage Volume APIs in AIR 2

Nov 11, 2009 4:18 PM
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A screencast of an application demonstrating the new storage volume detection APIs in AIR 2 (along with some code snippets). (translate)

A Demonstration of the ServerSocket API in AIR 2

Nov 4, 2009 4:29 PM
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In order to validate the new ServerSocket APIs in AIR 2, I wrote an HTTP proxy server in ActionScript. Check out the screencast, and if you're interested, download the code. (translate)

Some Interesting AIR Marketplace Statistics

Nov 3, 2009 5:32 PM
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A little over a year ago, I wrote a Python script to screen scrape the entire Adobe AIR Marketplace, download all the listed AIR applications, crack open the installers, and extract some statistics. My primary interest was how many HTML-based AIR applications were listed versus SWF-based applications, but I recorded some other interesting stats, as well. (translate)

A Screencast Explaining and Demoing File Promises, A New Feature in AIR 2.0

Oct 30, 2009 3:02 PM
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File promises are kind of a difficult concept to describe, so I decided to explain them using a video. Hopefully this clarifies what file promises are, and why it's such a cool new feature of AIR 2.0... (translate)

Exhaustive List of Everything That's New in AIR 2.0

Oct 29, 2009 5:46 PM
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This morning, I was going to start making videos demoing some of the new features in AIR 2.0 when I realized that I should probably start with a list of everything that's new. Below is an exhaustive list of everything that we're planning on including in AIR 2.0. (translate)

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