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Great news Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder are not both out of Adobe labs. Get going with next generation designer / developer work flow.

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.

Adobe AIR has won a Webware 100 award in the Infrastructure & Storage category!

Great to get more exposure for the best RIDA (Rich Internet Desktop Application) platform there is.

Registration is now open for this years Adobe MAX conference. As we know there is no Max Europe this year which is disappointing but for those who can afford to go to Los Angeles this years MAX is shaping up to be a great conference.

Head on over now to save $200 off the regular price until August.

FlashCamp is back in the UK at Birmingham on 16th June 2009 so get on down and register your attendance.

Again there are some great speakers and sponsors for the FREE event that runs from 12:00 until close at 20:00. Covering a variety of topics from Flex custom component creations with Mike Jones (aka Flashgen), there is some skinning with Degrafa and FXG by me (jameswhittaker.com). Some cool 3d from Away 3d creator Rob Bateman and getting started with PureMVC with Simon Bailey.

Keep an ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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/

Adobe have released an update their AIR marketplace. The new update is a lot more on brand and is now instantly recognisable as an Adobe site. A cleaner interface with dynamic AJAX effects offer another way of getting Adobe AIR apps.

Just like here on RefreshingApps.com you can vote and see the highest rated apps.

Interestingly RefreshingApps.com is going to be evolving over the coming months. It’s early days and things are currently in development on a whole new custom platform.

So I’m ...

Adobe have released figures that say the AIR runtime has now reached over 100 million downloads. Also the number of downloads of the AIR SDK hits over 1 million in the last 12 months.

Interestingly the majority of AIR runtime installations happen when a user is attempting to download and AIR app using the badge installer. The vast majority of these coming from the popular apps such as TweetDeck and eBay Desktop.

So get building and delivery your apps to millions!

If you have been following AIR applications for a while or event attended Adobe Max Europe in Milan last year you will have come across the Fiat EcoDrive application.

Adobe Evangelists Andrew Shorten and Serge Jespers spent some time with Fiat and the creators, London agency AKQA, on why and how they built this application. It’s 20 minutes long so grab a coffee, sit back and watch the insight into this groundbreaking AIR app.

What I found interesting is how Fiat and AKQA decided to ...

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

I came across a website dedicated to code examples for Adobe AIR. It’s obviously called AIR Examples and is located at http://airexamples.com/.

Written by Peter deHaan who works on the Adobe Flex SDK QA team, is probably better known for his other blog Flex Examples ( http://blog.flexexamples.com/ ) but also runs ActionScript examples too. And I thought running this blog was time consuming!

The sites are a great source of help and inspiration for all of you developers out there so macke ...