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Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) technology provides an opportunity for you to bring your Flex application into a whole new domain, the desktop. The API provides access to almost every nook and cranny you could want: the file system, native windows, native menus, and more. It also includes an embedded local database that you can use for offline storage. Plus it’s portable between Mac, Windows, and Linux. With these tools in hand and better integration of AIR 2.0 with the OS, it’s hard to think of any desktop application that you can’t write with AIR.
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© 2010 Shashank Tiwari and Elad Elrom
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Elrom, E. (2010). Flex and AIR: Taking Applications to the Desktop. In: AdvancED Flex 4. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2484-6_4
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