Building ADOBE® AIR® Applications Legal notices Legal notices For legal notices, see http://help.adobe.com/en_US/legalnotices/index.html. Last updated 5/16/2017 iii Contents Chapter 1: About Adobe AIR Chapter 2: Adobe AIR installation Installing Adobe AIR . 3 Removing Adobe AIR . 5 Installing and running the AIR sample applications . 5 Adobe AIR updates . 6 Chapter 3: Working with the AIR APIs AIR-specific ActionScript 3.0 classes . 7 Flash Player classes with AIR-specific functionality . 11 AIR-specific Flex components . 15 Chapter 4: Adobe Flash Platform tools for AIR development Installing the AIR SDK . 16 Setting up the Flex SDK . 18 Setting up external SDKs . 18 Chapter 5: Creating your first AIR application Creating your first desktop Flex AIR application in Flash Builder . 19 Creating your first desktop AIR application using Flash Professional . 22 Create your first AIR application for Android in Flash Professional . 24 Creating your first AIR application for iOS . 25 Create your first HTML-based AIR application with Dreamweaver . 29 Creating your first HTML-based AIR application with the AIR SDK . 31 Creating your first desktop AIR application with the Flex SDK . 35 Creating your first AIR application for Android with the Flex SDK . 39 Chapter 6: Developing AIR applications for the desktop Workflow for developing a desktop AIR application . 43 Setting desktop application properties . 44 Debugging a desktop AIR application . 49 Packaging a desktop AIR installation file . 51 Packaging a desktop native installer . 54 Packaging a captive runtime bundle for desktop computers . 57 Distributing AIR packages for desktop computers . 59 Chapter 7: Developing AIR applications for mobile devices Setting up your development environment . 62 Mobile application design considerations . 63 Workflow for creating AIR applications for . mobile devices 66 Setting mobile application properties . 67 Packaging a mobile AIR application . 89 Debugging a mobile AIR application . 96 Last updated 5/16/2017 BUILDING ADOBE AIR APPLICATIONS iv Contents Installing AIR and AIR applications . .on mobile devices 104 Updating mobile AIR applications . 107 Use push notifications . 107 Chapter 8: Developing AIR applications for television devices AIR capabilities for TVs . 116 AIR for TV application design considerations . 118 Workflow for developing an AIR for TV application . 131 AIR for TV application descriptor properties . 133 Packaging an AIR for TV application . 136 Debugging AIR for TV applications . 138 Chapter 9: Using native extensions for Adobe AIR AIR Native Extension (ANE) files . 142 Native extensions versus the NativeProcess ActionScript class . 143 Native extensions versus ActionScript class libraries (SWC files) . ..