FITC Amsterdam – RIA meets Desktop

I just finished my presentation at FITC Amsterdam, absolutely loved talking about Adobe AIR despite having some unfortunate beamer problems for the first 15 or so minutes of my talk — had some time to improvise and do Q&A with the audience.

The crowd seemed to be very ‘into’ AIR and interested to hear about the different API’s. Trying to cover everything in a one hour session is insane so I narrowed the scope down to the following:

■ Network monitoring
■ Windowing API
■ HTML support
■ FileSystem access
■ SQLite database
■ Drag ‘n drop support
■ Clipboard access
■ Update API

You can find my session notes below:

The source files referenced in my slides are available for download here: https://share.adobe.com/adc/adc.do?docid=53625a8c-e19a-11dc-88fd-81891157ba2a

Next up is Nico Lierman, talking about some more advanced data visualization with Flex and AIR. Looking forward to it!

Posted on February 25, 2008 by . This entry was posted in AIR, Events. Bookmark the permalink.

5 Comments

  • Cyril Hanquez
    February 25, 2008 - 1:55 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for sharing this Peter (code+slides) ! About API’s available in AIR, i read somewhere that Notification’s API (is it really on API?) and System Tray Support behave differently on MAC and PC… have you more information on this ?

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  • Sidney de Koning
    February 26, 2008 - 12:29 am | Permalink

    Hi Peter,

    I enjoyed your presentation, very clear and the examples good.
    I’d still like to thank you for the book and hope the feature request about custom/skinnable installers will be in the next release.

    Thanks!

    Sidney de Koning

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  • Stefan Richter
    March 5, 2008 - 6:18 pm | Permalink

    Hi Peter,
    this looks like a great presentation, I hope you’ll deliver it again elsewhere sometime. For now I’ll dig into the slides.

    All the best.

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