Chapter 12. Rails on AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime)

And Adobe is leaning hard on Flash, Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR (formerly code-named Apollo), and Flex. My money is on Adobe simply because of those two invisible weapons, PDF and Flash.

“Robert X. Cringely”; I, Cringely; The Pulpit, June 29, 2007[1]

1http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070629_002360.html.

In this iteration, we’ll have a bit of fun. We’ll make pomodo be a Flex 3 AIR application, and we’ll add online/offline network detection (and change the UI accordingly). We won’t solve any hard problems (synchronizing local and remote data, and so on). The primary purpose of this iteration is to get you up and running with AIR and to get pomodo built and running as ...

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