Building Adobe AIR Applications

BUILDING ADOBE AIR APPLICATIONS
Working with the AIR APIs
Package Class Property, method, or event Added in AIR version
flash.system Capabilities languages 1.1
Most of these new properties and methods are available only to content in the AIR application security sandbox.
However, the new members in the URLRequest classes are also available to content running in other sandboxes.
The ByteArray.compress() and ByteArray.uncompress() methods each include a new algorithm parameter,
allowing you to choose between deflate and zlib compression. This parameter is available only to content running in AIR.
AIR-specific Flex components
The following Adobe® Flex MX components are available when developing content for Adobe AIR:
FileEvent
FileSystemComboBox
FileSystemDataGrid
FileSystemEnumerationMode
FileSystemHistoryButton
FileSystemList
FileSystemSizeDisplayMode
FileSystemTree
FlexNativeMenu
HTML
Window
WindowedApplication
WindowedSystemManager
Additionally, Flex 4 includes the following spark AIR components:
Window
WindowedApplication
LoaderContext allowLoadBytesCodeExecution 1.0
Security APPLICATION 1.0
flash.ui KeyLocation D_PAD 2.5
For more information about the AIR Flex components, see Using the Flex AIR components.
Last updated 7/8/2013
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