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Files from today's "Build Your First AIR App With Flash CS4" eSeminar

I ran another eSeminar today for Adobe Australia speaking about the basics of building an AIR application with Flash CS4.  It's always great to see so many folk give up their lunch time to come along to these things, especially those of you outside of the capital cities.

As promised I've made the files that I used in my demos available for download here: AndrewMuller_FlashAirDemos.zip

The recording for this presentation will appear here: http://adobeeseminars.com.au/ondemand

One of the things that I demoed today was Badger, an AIR app to create a badge to deploy your AIR application from a web page, Badger can be downloaded from here: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/09/beware_the_air.html

Paul Burnett has some great AIR videos on Adobe TV that you should check out: http://tv.adobe.com/show/flash-downunder/

There's some great information on building AIR apps with Flash CS4 in the online documentation at Adobe: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappsflash/

My Presentation From Webdu 2009

I've uploaded the slides from my presentation on building successful AIR applications that I delivered at webdu this year to SlideShare for viewing for those of you who were unable to make it or wanted to view it again.

A copy of the presentation is embedded below:

98 Cups of Tea - How to build a successful AIR application

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Building AIR apps with Flash CS4 eSeminar Files and links

I had the opportunity to present another eSeminar for Adobe Australia today, speaking about "Building your first Adobe AIR app with Flash CS4".  Thanks to those of you who participated in it today!!

As promised the files that I used for my demos are available for download here: download here: andrewmuller_flashairdemos.zip

The recording for this presentation will appear here: http://adobeeseminars.com.au/ondemand

Other Adobe Australia eSeminar details can be found here: http://www.adobeeseminars.com.au/

As mentioned there's some great information on building AIR apps with Flash CS4 in the online documentation at Adobe: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappsflash/

AIR prototype: Gmail Notifier

I spoke at the Sydney Adobe AIR Camp on Tuesday and for my session built an AIR app that I now think I'll turn into a complete application.  It's currently for Mac only and runs on the Dock, it's icon only and when it launches you see a question mark overlayed on the envelope icon that I'm using. The app connects to your Gmail account and pulls back the quantity of unread mail, setting a new icon with an overlay of the quantity of unread messages. 

Control or right clicking on the icon will show a menu listing the 10 most recent unread messages, all menu items will click through to their respective messages.  I'd like to develop this further and add support for the system tray on Windows, but hey the original was only built over a weekend.

I've added an animated GIF below for you to see it in action, the red circle is only there to draw your attention to the icon, let me know what you think.  I'll be releasing the source code for this some time next week.

Authoring For AIR with Flex 3, New Adobe Article

With the recent relaunch of the Adobe Developer Connection for MAX, I'm proud to say that I've contributed an article to the new AIR Developer Center.  I created a Flickr image uploader in Flex and wrote about the application for the article - this is the second time that I've written about Flex and AIR for Adobe.

Desktop RSS with Adobe AIR

I've been writing for Builder AU again, creating a series of tutorials on authoring Adobe AIR with HTML & JavaScript (Ajax).  The first of these has just been published where we build a desktop RSS reader - the initial version is less than 40 lines of code in the application page! It's simple stuff so hang around and see how it evolves.

You can read more in the article, "Desktop RSS with Adobe AIR", from the following link: http://www.builderau.com.au/program/flash/soa/Desktop-RSS-with-Adobe-AIR/0,339028413,339281120,00.htm