Building Adobe AIR Apps with HTML and JS - MAX 2010 presentation materials now available
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So it's been a full week after MAX and people are still talking about it. What a great time it was; the Droid 2s, the Google TV, Adobe's serious push for AIR all over the house. It's an exciting time to be an AIR developer. That's one of the reasons I was so thrilled to be invited to speak at MAX this year. Thanks to everyone who came out to my BYOL session at MAX this year. For those of you that weren't able to make it I'm making all of my presentation materials available for download so that you can work through at your own pace. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send me an email, or post a comment here on my blog and I'll get back to you.
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Thank you for posting the presentation. This is my first jump into AIR and while reading the attach doc I was thinking: is it possible to use an AIR app to read the user outlook info (calendar, contacts) and synchronize with a cf server app? That will be sweet Thanks Richard
Richard - November 03, 2010 11:58 am
Richard...
I suppose it might be possible. You'd have to write the code to read in an Outlook file, and parse through it, which would be the hard part. But once you extracted information from the Outlook save file then there's no reason you couldn't transmit that to ColdFusion for sync.
If the user exported their Outlook information as a CSV file then it would be even easier to accomplish.
andy matthews - November 03, 2010 06:34 pm
Probably outlook.pst can be read using .net and MAPI. Last year Microsoft said that they will open and make available outlook format to developers. What I was hoping that this happened and AIR will have some sort of API to read/write data to outlook (similar to CF and exchange). It seems that not yet. Bummer. Thanks Richard
Richard - November 04, 2010 12:51 pm
Well AIR does give you the option of calling native libraries. You just have to export the application as an E X E or a DMG instead of just an AIR file. Here's a link on how to do this in Flex, I'll probably write a blog post soon on how to export an HTML AIR application as E X E/DMG.
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Fern - November 10, 2010 01:56 am
Hello, First congrats for your presentation and the materials you provided. I really enjoyed it. I ve always been a fan of the potential of AIR and HTML/CSS/JS. But i also think that building large scale apps using those three technilogies can be a pain because of the dynamic nature of JavaScript and the lack of compile time error. That s why i started a project located at: http://code.google.com/p/gwt4air/ to give developers that want to write HTML based air apps the possibilty to use the JAVA language and let the Google Web Toolkit do the rest. Maybe you can check the project and let me think what you think about it. Regards, Alain
Alain - November 23, 2010 02:59 pm