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BIG news this from the Adobe MAX keynote in LA. In the forthcoming version of Flash (CS5) you will be able to create applications that compile down to actual real iPhone applications and are deployed using an Adobe AIR type runtime.

Just imagine this the world of iPhone development opened up to all of the great Flash & AIR designers and developers creating great experiences for this device. What excited me even more is that we can take our existing skills and create apps for so many devices ...

Adobe have posted a good beginners tutorial for Flex and AIR. It’s split into a number of modules and instructions and code are included.

There is common knowledge that AIR apps can sometimes be CPU hogs. Well Grant Skinner has written a great blog post about how an AIR application in Flash that does nothing uses 4% of his new Mackbook pro CPU. It’s worth pointing out that Grant finds this only with Mac and not Windows and it is also seen in the Flash Player.

He is urging you to file this in the bug database at Adobe called Jira, the bug is numbered FP-2009 so do a quick search for that.

In the mean time Grant has created a ...

Well this came out of the blue. Adobe are actively working on a 64bit version of Adobe AIR and the Linux version is going to be the first one out of the stable.

According to Ashutosh Sharma’s blog the AIR team are requesting that if you are interested and have the time to offer feedback then they would welcome your application to the pre-release program.

Read more here.

A great article at InsideRIA today on some best practice AS3 principles for speed and optimisation so go and check it out.

There is some good feedback and extra resources mentioned in the comments particularly the newly updated Grant Skinner performance test harness for AS3 and FP10, and an article over at OSFlash on AS3 optimisation.

As usual posts like this always generate discussion both for and against what is suggested just like design patterns, however it’s always good to step back ...

SmashingMagazine have excelled themselves again in producing a fantastic list of sites and resources for all things related to Adobe AIR.

Wheather you’re a designer, HTML, Flash or Flex developer there will be something in this list for you.

Oh and they kindly include a helpful link to your favourite Adobe AIR showcase site, RefreshingApps.com.

So head on over to SmashingMagazine and read all about it as they say.

The team who built the Queued Adobe AIR application for NetFlix (reviewed Feb 2009), have a blog where they are giving details about how the desktop application was built.

Covering areas like UI design and wireframing to skinning and more. So have a look at the blog and check out the Queued AIR application.

Some great news this morning from the guys over at Adobe. There is now an ActionScript 3 API for Facebook on Google Code. This is an official API and Adobe have included a new section over at the DevNet purely for Facebook.

This is fantastic news for all those people developer apps and widgets using the Flash Platform. Daniel Dura has a quick introductory video tutorial on creating your first Application using Flex Builder on the DevNet.

Another written article on the DevNet takes you ...

GlobalSign have a limited offer for Adobe AIR developers for getting a security certificate for only $99 USD for a limited period. This is a massive saving of $130 USD so get yours today.

They also have some interesting white papers and guides for AIR and security certificates well worth reading.

Rich Tretola has posted an article on the EverythingFlex blog around getting the community to feedback ideas and wishes for the next BIG release of Adobe AIR. With the recent announcement from Microsoft on Silverlight how do you see Adobe upping the game with the next major release for AIR?

Well now is you chance, no matter how strange a request Adobe are listening and it’s time to get those suggestions in.

So if you have any great wishes, suggestions or fixes that you want to see then ...

At Mix 09 Microsoft announced that it’s Silverlight product can now run on the desktop for both Windows and Mac. This places the Microsoft offering as a competitor with Adobe AIR.

However upon closer examination the two technologies are coming at the desktop RIA space differently. There have been a lot of confusing reports regarding the Silverlight offering and I wanted to get a more rounded understanding before a rightup. It appears that with Silverlight you can turn any Silverlight web app ...

Interesting read today on InsideRIA by Giorgio Natili about creating an AIR application that uses a plug-in based architecture model.

It is more of an exploratory article rather than tutorial, however it’s a very interesting read on the subject of architecture and security considerations.

This update fixes a number of issues including the annoying Shift + space bug that has been the plague of messages on Twitter for a while now.

There is also a couple of new methods including a one for knowing if the user launched the application or it was launched on system startup. To take advantage of these new methods you will have to change you Application Descriptor File to use Adobe AIR 1.5.1.

So get out there and grab yourself the latest AIR version : http://get.adobe.com/air/

There is a new open source debugging tool for Flex, Flash and AIR called De MonsterDebugger. Built in Flex and AIR by design studio De Monster it looks really interesting.

It is stacked with features including live editing, detailed tracing, FDT templates and you don’t need the Adobe debug player. So download it today and give it a go over at http://www.monsterdebugger.com

The new text layout framework is fantastic in the latest version of Flex and AIR, using the new Flash Text Engine

Head on over to the Adobe labs page for the textlayout that has a tour of the new features.

Mihai CORLAN has a great write up on the new features, so if your in developing an AIR application that needs advanced text flowing and support for right to left languages you need to read up on this.

[via: Serge Jespers