Give me some fresh AIR 2.o in Flash Player 10.1
On the 17th november 2oo9 morning, Adobe announced on its lab the availability of the Air 2.0 SDK (beta version) and the Flash Player 10.1 (prerelease version). Here is a small article about what is coming new and/or better with these both technologies
Air 2.o
New functionalities in AIR 2.0
| IPv6 Support | flash.net.dns.AAAARecord |
| IPv6 format addresses can now be used with all APIs that accept an IP string as input | |
| User Datagram Protocol Support | flash.net.DatagramSocket flash.net.ServerSocket |
| Read Using UDP socket connections… InsideRIA series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Ian McLean | |
| Network Information | flash.net.NetworkInfo |
| DNS Records | flash.net.dns.DNSResolver flash.net.dns.ARecord flash.net.dns.AAAARecord flash.net.dns.MXRecord flash.net.dns.SRVRecord flash.net.dns.ResourceRecord flash.net.dns.PTRRecord |
| flash.events.DNSResolverEvent | |
| Launching and Interacting with Native Processes | flash.desktop.NativeProcess flash.desktop.NativeProcessStartupInfo |
| flash.events.NativeProcessExitEvent | |
| Screen Reader Support | Is usable by users with vision-related disabilities. Take advantage of JAWS and Microsoft Narrator (a text-to-speech utility that comes with Windows) For Mac OS X or Linux, test application using a screen reader within a virtualized instance of Windows XP running VMware. See AccessibilityProperties class |
| File promises API | flash.desktop.URLFilePromise |
Additional functionalities to existing API
| Open file with Default Application | flash.filesystem.File | openWithDefaultApplication() |
| Open a document such as .doc, .pdf or .mp3, etc. using the default application associated with that document in a completely platform-independent way | ||
| Microphone Access API | Access the sound data from a microphone directly for recording or other processing without the need of a server. | |
| Database Transaction Savepoints | flash.data.SQLConnection | savepoints() setSavepoint() releaseSavepoint() rollbackToSavepoint() |
| Read local database SQL support | ||
| Mac Vector Printing Support | On the Mac, vector printing support has been enabled | |
| Idle time-out | flash.net.URLRequestDefaults HTMLLoader URLRequest |
idleTimeout property |
| Increased Maximum Size of NativeWindow | 2880x 2880 pixels in AIR 1.5.2 4095×4095 pixels in AIR 2.0. |
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Platform awareness related APIs
| Mass Storage Device Detection | flash.filesystem.StorageVolumeInfo flash.filesystem.StorageVolume |
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| Multi-touch functionality | flash.ui.MultitouchInputMode | MultitouchInputMode.GESTURE MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT MultitouchInputMode.NONE |
| flash.ui.Multitouch | Multitouch.inputMode Multitouch.supportsGestureEvents Multitouch.supportsTouchEvents Multitouch.maxTouchPoints |
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| flash.display.Sprite | startTouchDrag() stopTouchDrag() |
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| flash.events.GestureEvent flash.events.TouchEvent flash.events.TransformGestureEvent flash.events.PressAndTapGestureEvent |
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| multi-touch (Windows 7) events gesture (Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard) events (on computers that have multi-touch hardware) |
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| Read Christian Cantrell’s article on Adobe Developer Connection | ||
Better Performance
| Decrease in resources used | ||
| WebKit Performance Increase | WebKit in AIR 2 beta is based on the version shipped with Safari 4.0.3 | SquirrelFish Extreme JavaScript engine performs 50% faster using SunSpider tests |
| WebKit Animation | ||
| WebKit Gradients | ||
| WebKit Selectors | ||
| WebKit Transform | ||
| WebKit Animation | ||
Read also
Official documentation
¬ Introducing Adobe AIR 2 beta
¬ AIR page on Adobe Labs
¬ Learn to Use Adobe AIR 2 Beta
InsideRIA articles
¬ AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview, by Elad Elrom, October 7, 2009
and watch also
Adobe TV
¬ What’s coming in Adobe AIR 2
Flash® Player 10.1
This release of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 is symbolic because it is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project.
By the way and according to the official documentation, this Flash® Player release is important by the new possibilities it offers :
| Full Flash Player will be available on smartphones and other Internet-connected mobile devices |
| Enables developers to write a single handler to process all runtime errors that weren’t part of a try/catch statement (–> catch and handle unexpected runtime errors and present custom error messages) |
| Flash Player 10.1 leverages hardware acceleration of graphics and video and many other performance improvements, such as rendering, scripting, memory utilization, start-up time, battery and CPU optimizations. |
| Support for multi-touch, gestures, mobile input models, and accelerometer |
| With new HTTP streaming and content protection features with Adobe Flash Access, premium audio and video content can be securely delivered within the browser. |
| Streaming performance is enhanced with improved support for live events, buffer controls and peer assisted networking. |
| Network context-aware services, such as smart seek and stream reconnect, will enable smooth, uninterrupted media playback and improved resource utilization on mobile devices. |
Read also
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- 20 November 2009 / 13:42
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- RIA | RDA technologies, Surface computing
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- Adobe, AIR, Flash Player, iPhone, multi-touch
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