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The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is to the desktop what the Flash Player is to the browser. You could say that Adobe AIR is a like a plug-in for your operating system, but what it really does is give you the benefits of being connected to the Internet while at the same time being a first-class citizen on the host computer, breaking the constraints of living within the web browser!
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© 2009 Paul Milbourne, Chris Kaplan, and Michael Oliver
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(2009). Building Air Applications with Flash CS4. In: The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1812-8_19
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