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jeffreyabe
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June 17, 2013
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Adobe Air Framework - Where's the Documentation

  • June 17, 2013
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I'm very confused about how to use the Adobe Air Framework to learn how to update my apps. There are tutorials on the Adobe website, but they're all from either 2008 or 2011 and are discussing Air 1.5 or 2 or 2.5 versions, but since I'm using Air 3.7 I would like to see examples of how to use the Framework.

I'm new to Air, but not to AS3. It sounds like the Framework includes API's that allow you to update apps and more, but I cannot find where the documentation is specifically. I continually find:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/documentation.html

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air_update_framework.html

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1156048

http://code.google.com/p/nativeapplicationupdater/

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/updating-air-apps-native-installer.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/index.html

and a few others, but I'm hoping someone can help me find what I need. Maybe the Framework hasn't changed from version 2 to 3, but I know it has from another article I read.

I'm using Flash Professional CS6 and working entirely within that program.

Any suggestions?

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Correct answer Ollie Edge

I'm just about to head out, but I think these two links are possibly what you're looking for it contains all the documentation you could ever need for the latest AIR SDK's:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/index.html?filter_air=3.7

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/flashplayer-air-feature-list.html

If it's not I'll post a little more when i get back if someone else hasn't already.

Edit:

Back now, I so you're looking to implement a form of updating your application from within itself using the Air Application updater. The second link you've provided explains everything on how to do this, just ignore all the MXML and use the snippets that are provided in the examples. There is no difference between the framework released in 2011 (with regards to updating) so any tutorial around this time will be sufficent for you. I quickly googled this one for you and it seems to be easy to understand:

http://kirill-poletaev.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/updating-air-applications-part-2.html

Hope that helps.

O.

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Ollie Edge
Ollie EdgeCorrect answer
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June 17, 2013

I'm just about to head out, but I think these two links are possibly what you're looking for it contains all the documentation you could ever need for the latest AIR SDK's:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/index.html?filter_air=3.7

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/flashplayer-air-feature-list.html

If it's not I'll post a little more when i get back if someone else hasn't already.

Edit:

Back now, I so you're looking to implement a form of updating your application from within itself using the Air Application updater. The second link you've provided explains everything on how to do this, just ignore all the MXML and use the snippets that are provided in the examples. There is no difference between the framework released in 2011 (with regards to updating) so any tutorial around this time will be sufficent for you. I quickly googled this one for you and it seems to be easy to understand:

http://kirill-poletaev.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/updating-air-applications-part-2.html

Hope that helps.

O.

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jeffreyabeAuthor
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June 18, 2013

Thank you very much. I was confused with having to write a lot of code vs using the ApplicationUpdatorUI which helped a bunch because it looks great and does a lot of the work behind the scenes.

Finally looks like I've figured it out. Thanks for your help.

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