Adobe Air

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Adobe Integrated Runtime, also known as Adobe AIR, codenamed and originally called Apollo,[1] is a cross-operating system runtime environment for building rich Internet applications, using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML and Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.

Adobe made a public preview release of AIR (then called Apollo) along with an SDK and extension for developing Apollo applications with the Flex framework, on March 19, 2007. On June 10, 2007, Apollo was renamed to AIR and a public beta release of the runtime was launched. Public beta 2 of AIR SDK was released on October 1, 2007. The latest version, Public beta 3, was released on December 12, 2007.[2][3]

Currently, beta-builds of Adobe AIR are available from Adobe for the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. A Linux version is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2008.

Adobe announced at Adobe MAX 2007 that AIR is expected to be released in spring 2008.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" title="Hello World">
    <mx:Style>
        Application
        {
            background-image:"";
            background-color:"";
            background-alpha:"0.5";
        }
    </mx:Style>
    <mx:Label text="Hello AIR" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0"/>
</mx:WindowedApplication>