The update is unlikely to change the usage model for AIR, which will continue to be around games, video, media applications, and creating rich interfaces for business applications, Wadhwani said. Adobe says it will also do a version of AIR for smartphones sometime in 2010. "Also, a lot of people still like desktop applications it's what they're comfortable with," he said.ĪIR 2.0 is scheduled for general availability in the first half of next year. It chose AIR because its allows the clients to update their sites by dragging and dropping images and other content into the application from the desktop, something a Web browser can't do. Konductor's service includes an AIR application that lets clients update Web sites built for them by designers. Memory leaks occur when programs gradually use more and more of the computer's memory over time, causing performance to take a hit. "Memory leakage has been a big issue," he said. That last item is much needed, according to Derek Zarbrook, president of Konductor, a startup that is using AIR to offer a content hosting service for Web designers.
There are also general improvements for better CPU and memory utilization. Other planned capabilities include the ability to open a document such as a PDF or Word file from within an AIR program, and to use AIR for a peer-to-peer application. Adobe says developers will be able to generate native installers automatically in a forthcoming AIR development kit. To do this, however, AIR programs will have to be deployed as a native installer, such as an. An AIR directory program could call up information about a customer stored in an SAP application, for example, said David Wadhwani, general manager of the Adobe Flash Platform group. It also gets a native process API (application programming interface), which will allow AIR programs to communicate with applications installed on the desktop. The software aims to address shortcomings identified by some developers, especially the limited access that AIR provides to local PC resources.ĪIR 2.0 will add the ability to access mass storage devices, which means an application will be able to detect when a user plugs a Flip video camera into a PC, for example, and then save the files to a local hard drive or offer to upload them to the Web. The technology is only 18 months old, however, and is competing for attention with Microsoft's Silverlight, Google Gears and others.Īdobe hopes to move it forward with a new version that will be released in beta later this year, it said at Adobe Max this week. AIR can be useful to Flash and Flex developers because it lets them write programs that run outside the browser, on the desktop of any computer with the AIR runtime installed.
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