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Adobe AIR for Linux Beta - September 16th, 2008

Supported Linux Distributions

  • Fedora Core 8
  • Ubuntu 7.10
  • Open Suse 10.3

Features Available

The following features are available with this release:

  • Runtime/Application Install/Update and Uninstall.
  • HTML Loader with JS support to render HTML within AIR applications.
  • Local Database APIs
  • File system support with support for user folders like Desktop/Documents etc.
  • Desktop Integration with Drag and drop, clipboard support
  • Windowing support with System chrome none/standard
  • Transparency
  • Menu support with context menu, menu bar, pop up menus and menu events.
  • Networking
  • Network change detection (Event.NETWORK_CHANGE )
  • System wide idle detection (userIdle Event)
  • NativeApplication APIs
  • Capabilities (OS) API
  • Mouse events
  • Detection of running application (InvokeEvent.INVOKE)
  • File type registration
  • System tray icon and menu support
  • Hardware acceleration
  • Menu keyboard accelerators
  • Screen API (multi-monitor support)
  • V4L2 camera support, A/V Hardware change API
  • Printing
  • Launch application at Startup
  • PDF and SWF within HTML
  • IME support
  • Fullscreen
  • Localization
  • Encrypted Local Store.
  • Certificate store.

 

 

Features Not Available

  • DRM

 

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