How to Run Air Application

[kens60435897]

I don't know much if anything about Adobe Air, but I have a collection of files of what appears to be an Air application. I would like to run this and examine it. There are several XML files that seem to describe the Air application along with many .swf files (I know historically these are flash files). I was doing a lot of searching, but it's not clear to me how I can open this application and run it on a PC - how could I do this? Additionally, is it possible to import the collection with any Adobe program and view or edit it in any way?

Which Adobe application would I need to accomplish any of the tasks above if possible on my PC? It seems that over time many different Adobe programs have been used for these type of applications and I can't seem to understand which one I need. Thanks.

[ASWC]

Even fairly old AIR project can be compiled easily Today unless they are mxml based in which case you will need to target the correct AIR/flex SDK to compile your AIR app correctly. An AIR project consist (at the minimum) of a XML (usually ending in -app.xml) and an entry mxml or AS3 file (.as). If really you do have a AIR project (not just an AIR app) then you need to find that xml (projectname-app.xml), if you do not have that then it is not an AIR project and can't be compiled.

At the minimum compiling an AIR project is done using an AIR SDK compiler (command line based) but some IDEs can do it too and notably Flash Builder from Adobe, Flash Devlelop, and others.

I guess if you provide a list of files included in your folder we would be able to tell you more.