I went to the Adobe onAIR Bus tour on Tuesday. This was the first scheduled stop with many more to follow. The complete schedule can be found at the official website
http://onair.adobe.com/
The event was held at Elysian Brewing Company down near Quest field. As far as events go, Adobe put on a good show. Free shirts, free books and CD with the AIR beta and lots of documentation. Breakfast and lunch were provided and as I understand it free beer after dinner later in the evening. I was unable to stay but was both impressed and disappointed with what I saw and heard from Adobe.
First off let me say that I am very excited about working with the Adobe Integrated Runtime. The possibility to develop full system applications using Action Script 3 (my preference) is very exciting.
My main disappointment from what I have heard is the amount of “unknown” at this point. There are a significant number of APIs that are not yet complete and several key questions regarding the security model between local running AIR application and a remote loaded content. Naturally most of this is to be expected as we are in Beta. My disappointment perhaps just shows my enthusiasm for working with AIR.
