{"id":5314,"date":"2008-05-15T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/all-you-need-to-know-about-adobe-air\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:31:09","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-adobe-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/all-you-need-to-know-about-adobe-air\/","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know about Adobe AIR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EverythingAdobe AIR (which used to be know as Apollo, remember<\/a>?) is slowly becoming a solid software platform for developers, especially those who work on their own and don’t belong to any big company. But what is this AIR thing about? AIR is a runtime coding environment that enables developers to create web software tools, working in between a web-based app and a native desktop utility. AIR apps typically include Internet elements such as HTML, Flash or Ajax, but are launched from your computer as you would normally launch any other program.<\/p>\n

How do you install AIR apps? First of all, you need the basic component, Adobe AIR<\/a>. Then, simply download the AIR tool you’re interested in (usually a file with the .air extension) and double click on it. You’ll start up an installation process similar to this one:<\/p>\n

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Click on “Install”, select the program’s location on your hard drive and you’re ready to go. When the installation is finished, run your newly AIR app as you would run any program.<\/p>\n

There is already a wide range of AIR tools available to download, covering all sorts of areas: from Twitter clients<\/a> to microblogging<\/a> tools, including web stats analyzers<\/a> or even RSS feed readers<\/a>. But if you want more, take a look at Freshairapps<\/a>: they have an extensive catalog with all the latest AIR apps out there, together with top rankings, news, tutorials and other AIR resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adobe AIR (which used to be know as Apollo, remember?) is slowly becoming a solid software platform for developers, especially those who work on their own and don’t belong to any big company. But what is this AIR thing about? AIR is a runtime coding environment that enables developers to create web software tools, working … Continue reading “All you need to know about Adobe AIR”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2858],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionadobe-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t