This 17th of November adobe has made available at Adobe Labs the prerelease of  Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and the beta of  Adobe  AIR 2.0 and the attendees of Adobe Latin Flash Tour MX received these news from the hands of Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers who showed us some of the great things to come in the new versions of these runtimes.

Adobe Flash Player version 10.1 is the first runtime release of the new Open Screen Project that will enable to have the same user experience across multiple devices be it browsers, tv, mobile phones and more. Some of the new features of the the Flash Player 10.1 are ubiquitous reach witch means that the full Flash Player will be the same on your smartphone as your browser enabling you to make your content and user experience equal across many devices. The new Global Error Handling will enable You developer to write a single handler to process all runtime errors that weren’t part of a try/catch statement. Improve application  reliability and user experience by catching and handling unexpected runtime errors and present custom error messages, what does this mean is that your user will never get that window saying there’s an error and you will not see the output panel throwing you those errors everytime you test your application. Multitouch support a Microphone class that will let you capture sound from the microphone the new Text Layout format and various other features that i’m sure that i’m missing so to The Flash Player 10.1 prerelease page at Adobe Labs and start playing with it.

Some useful links:

Release notes

What’s New in Flash Player 10.1

Download the updated global SWC to create content using the new APIs

Download the memory monitoring component to optimize your content for mobile

Watch Flash Player 10.1 video demonstrations

ActionScript 3.0 Developers Guide

ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform

Adobe AIR 2.0

Some of the features of AIR 2.0 were showed to us by Mike Chambers like the support for the detection of mass storage devices , comunication with the system and that you can now export as a native system application allowing you to use native code integration this lets you do some other things like opening default applications here’s a list of some of it’s new features.

Some useful links:

Release Notes.

Introducing Adobe AIR 2 beta

What’s Coming in Adobe AIR 2.

What are You waiting for go there and start playing.

Happy Flashing

Adobe has released the AIR 1.5.1 update with new features and with number of bug fixes. The Adobe AIR 1.5.1 is available on the Adobe AIR download center.

Read Adobe AIR Team blog for more information.

Adobe also announced today the availability of Adobe AIR 1.5, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, which enables Web developers to deliver rich Internet applications outside the browser. Offering new features and performance improvements to create more expressive AIR applications, Adobe AIR 1.5 incorporates the open source WebKit HTML engine and now accelerates application performance with “SquirrelFish,” the new WebKit JavaScript interpreter. Adobe AIR 1.5 also includes a new, encrypted database that meets enterprise security compliance requirements while storing data securely on customers’ computers. Additionally, AIR 1.5 includes functionality introduced in Adobe Flash Player 10, such as support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, and extensible rich text layout.

Adobe AIR 1.5 developer release notes
Adobe AIR 1.5 user release notes

Download Adobe AIR version 1.5

UPDATE:

A more detailed  explanation by Robert Christensen in the Adobe AIR Team Blog on  the post Introducing Adobe AIR 1.5

Adobe has released the Adobe AIR 1.1 Update, so what does this update have for us ?

The Adobe AIR 1.1 includes the following new capabilities:

• Installation and other runtime dialog boxes have been translated into:
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian
• Spanish
• Support for building internationalized applications, including keyboard input for double-byte languages
• Support for localizing the name and description attributes in the application descriptor file
• Support for localizing error messages, such as SQLError.detailID and SQLError.detailArguments, in the SQLite database
• Addition of Capabilities.languages property to obtain an array of preferred UI languages as set by the operating system
• HTML button labels and default menus, such as context menus and the Mac menu bar, have been localized to all supported languages
• Support for certificate migration from a self-signed application to one that chains to a certificate of authority (CA)
• Support for Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and support for 64-bit editions of Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise.
• Addition of File.spaceAvailable : API to obtain the amount of disk space available on a disk
• Addition of NativeWindow.supportsTransparency property to determine whether a window can be drawn as transparent by the current operating system
• Bug fixes and memory improvements.

Here’s a list of some of the things you can get to start playing with AIR 1.1:
Adobe AIR 1.1 first of all you’ll need the runtime download it here.
If you’re working with Flash CS3 Professional here are the instructions and download links to get your copy of Flash up to date with the new AIR.

if you’re working with Flex 3 go here and wait for the Adobe Flex SDK 3.0.2 stable build, according to Matt Chotin this update will be available this afternoon they’re just giving it the final touches.

And the AIR SDK can be found here.

And don’t forget to visit the Adobe AIR Developer Center and check the new AIR Cookbook section

Until next time Happy Coding !!!

H.264 Format supported in Flash Player, AIR Export within Flash, Now that’s a busy week. : )

Apollo has landed on a new beta and new name as the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) the crossplatform runtime that extends your web skills to the desktop be shure to uninstall Apollo before installing this new baby.

Download it here.

Here are the links:

Apollo mx.controls & mx.core Cheatsheet

Apollo flash.display & flash.events Cheatsheet

Apollo flash.filesystem, flash.html & flash.system Cheatsheet

Today (19-March-2007) Adobe? released the alpha version of Apollo the runtime technology who promises to let you build cross-operating system desktop aplications using your hard earned existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax).

Here’s what they say about it:
Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications ? network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach ? with the strengths of desktop applications ? application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences.

You can check it out at:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/