Hi Greg, Andy, Dave, and Chadvavra, My name is Rob Christensen and I am a product manager on Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR is really centered on allowing developers to build applications that need to run outside of the browser. Since it includes WebKit and Flash, it's generally very easy to migrate your existing UI code to AIR and also take advantage of any services you have already built or tap into third party services.
A certain class of applications require greater access to the local system than what is currently possible in a browser. For example, if you want to have access to local file system, display notifications, encrypt a local database, have full control over windows, etc., Adobe AIR is a great option. We do much of the heavy lifting in the runtime so that designers and developers can focus on building a great application experience. One application that I would point you to is Salesbuilder built by an Adobe employee. It is a sample application that showcases what is possible when you build a desktop application using Adobe AIR and Flex. Video: http://vimeo.com/3882718?pg=embed&sec= A blog post about the application including a download link to the actual application: http://coenraets.org/blog/2009/03/make-and-receive-phone-calls-in-the-new-version-of-the-salesbuilder-sample-flex-application/ The developer also made the source code available here: http://coenraets.org/blog/2009/04/new-version-of-salesbuilder-with-ribbit-integration-source-code-available/ Feel free to contact me directly if you have additional questions. Cheers, -Rob Product Manager, Adobe AIR http://blogs.adobe.com/air/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41126 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
