Adobe AIR SDK

Adobe AIR SDK helps the developer within you accomplish their programming jobs by providing a dependable as well as adjustable environment. With Adobe AIR SDK, you can deliver a wide array of cross-platform applications quickly and easily.

First things first, though, Adobe AIR SDK represents the software development kit for the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). This particular SDK allows you to design RIA (Rich Internet Applications) aided by Adobe’s Flash, Apache’s Flex, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and even Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).

Supporting so many technologies, Adobe AIR can hand a linear if not exponential learning curve to most of the developers out there, with great prospected results over the course of weeks if not days. The two main components of AIR are the runtime environment represented by Adobe Flash Player and the programming language in the form of ActionScript 3.

With Adobe AIR SDK, you can run your application projects within an implicit instance of Flash Player or the comprised WebKit rendering engine for the web apps. You can also use the text editor of your choice (Notepad++ or any other) in order to work on your AS (ActionScript) source code files and then compile the AIR installer file directly from them.

Adobe AIR SDK does not impose restrictions of any sorts when it comes to the HTML or text editor you may want to use as in for editing your source files; however, Adobe Dreamweaver, since the CS5 version, has provided support for AIR HTML / JavaScript.

Adobe AIR SDK is not the most amazing toolkit to work with and although the possibilities can be endless their spectrum is only limited by the technologies used by Adobe AIR. While you can design and give life to a wide array of programs and games, Adobe AIR SDK is not the complete environment everyone looks for.