Adobe AIR Landing on Android

Jakarta - Adobe AIR finally landed on the Android platform. With this, developers who use Flash or Flash Professional Builder CS5, can publish a AIR-based applications directly to the Android Market.

For information, Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR is a device (runtime environment) Cross-platform for building Internet applications with more varied content using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, and AJAX. Some of the popular desktop applications using AIR These include web or Flickr Desktop Search.

To run AIR, the developers at least have to run the Android 2.2 Froyo or a newer version again.

As quoted from Digitaltrends, Sunday (10/10/2010), this indirectly would open the Android application market share further. Because Android Market also need a lot of applications that comes with a rich content of Flash developers.

Good news for Flash developers of course. Unfortunately, the AIR desktop-oriented packages (. Water) is not compatible on Android. Adobe still fix some parts of the test by a number of Flash developers.