Developing AIR applications with Flex

Chapter 10. Networking and communications

Monitoring network connectivity

URL requests and networking

Inter-application communication

Monitoring network connectivity

Adobe AIR provides the means to check for changes to the network connectivity of the computer on which an AIR application is installed. This information is useful if an application uses data obtained from the network. Also, an application can check the availability of a network service.

Contents

• Detecting network connectivity changes

• Service monitoring basics

• Detecting HTTP connectivity

• Detecting socket connectivity

Detecting network connectivity changes

Your AIR application can run in environments with uncertain and changing network connectivity. To help an application manage connections to ...