What Do You Need to Develop AIR Applications? | 21Adobe AIR SDK
The Adobe AIR SDK contains command-line tools, sample
files, and other resources to make developing AIR applica-
tions easier. In particular, we will be using the command-line
tools included in the SDK (ADL and ADT), which will allow
us to test and package our AIR applications from virtually
any development environment.
You can download the AIR SDK for free from:
http://www.adobe.com/go/airHTML/JavaScript IDE or Editor
Building AIR applications with HTML and JavaScript
requires that you have a way to create the HTML and
JavaScript files. You can use any tool that supports creating
and editing text files (such as VIM or Notepad), although it’s
recommended that you use a tool that has richer support for
working with HTML and JavaScript files, such as Adobe
Dreamweaver, Panic’s Coda, or Aptana.
Supported Operating System
While it is possible to develop and package AIR applications
on virtually any operating system (including Linux), you can
test and deploy the application only on operating systems
supported by Adobe AIR.
The supported operating systems for the Beta are:
- Windows XP SP2
- Windows Vista Home Ultimate Edition
- Mac OS 10.4.8 and 10.4.9 (Intel and PowerPC)
Adobe AIR will support additional versions of Mac and Win-
dows for the 1.0 release, and Linux shortly after the 1.0
release.