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Adobe AIR for Metro promised for first half of 2013

By tim, on November 15th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe Game Developer Evangelist Lee Brimelow has stated on Twitter that AIR for Metro is coming next year.

we’re working on Air for Metro. It should be available first half of next year.

AIR is a way of compiling Flash applications to run outside the browser.

[Microsoft no longer uses the term Metro. We

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On BlackBerry 10, Cascades UI and Adobe AIR

By tim, on February 8th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Jeff Lejeune, RIM’s Advanced User Interface Director, here at BlackBerry DevCon Europe in Amsterdam.

He is part of the team responsible for the Cascades UI, a native code UI framework for the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 OS. One of the things he told me is that the Cascades name is actually being used

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What next for Adobe Flash? Think runtime not plugin

By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is stating that mobile Flash will no longer be developed:

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new

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Developers keen to get apps on Barnes & Noble Nook

By tim, on October 4th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I took a quick look round the exhibition here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, and was intrigued to see crowds round the Barnes & Noble Nook stand, a newcomer to Max.

Barnes & Noble has its own app store for Color Nook, the AIR runtime is on the device, and in fact is

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Adobe to ship Flash 11 and AIR 3, repositions Flash vs HTML 5

By tim, on September 21st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced that Flash 11 and AIR 3 will ship in early October.

There are significant changes in this release.

Flash gets Stage 3D (previously codenamed Molehill), a set of low-level 3D APIs, GPU accelerated where hardware allows, which will make console-like 3D graphics and games possible in Flash. Stage 3D wraps DirectX on

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Adobe closes AIR Marketplace, InMarket

By tim, on July 25th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is giving up its efforts to support developers deploying to multiple app stores. The idea of InMarket, announced at the Adobe MAX Conference in October 2010, was to be a one-stop distribution point for developers seeking to target multiple platforms. Adobe handled distribution and billing. The reason given:

After reviewing our efforts and based

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Hands On with Flash Builder 4.5.1 for Apple iOS

By tim, on June 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Flash 4.5.1 has been released recently, the first with integrated support for Apple iOS as well as Google Android and RIM Blackberry Tablet OS. I was keen to try my calculator app on iOS, having already tested it for Android. You can do most of the development on Windows, but I moved the project to

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Cross-platform concerns as Adobe abandons AIR for Linux

By tim, on June 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is giving up on AIR for Linux – at least, in a fully supported manner:

To support the variety of Linux-based platforms across PCs and devices, we are prioritizing a Linux porting kit for AIR (including source code), which Open Screen Project (OSP) partners can use to complete implementations of AIR for Linux-based platforms

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No Java or Adobe AIR apps in Apple’s Mac App Store

By tim, on January 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines appear to forbid Java or Adobe AIR applications from being published in the store:

Apps that use deprecated or optionally installed technologies (e.g., Java, [PowerPC code requiring] Rosetta) will be rejected.

Since Adobe AIR is not shipped by default with OS X, any applications requiring that runtime will not qualify.

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Adobe: no AIR planned for Windows Phone 7

By tim, on October 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, and last night attended a couple of the “Meet the team” events where a bunch of Adobe engineers, product managers and others field questions about the products they are working on.

One of the events was on Adobe AIR, where an attendee asked whether we will

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