Application Updater Library for AIR Native Installer Apps

My fellow evangelist, Piotr Walczyszyn, was very busy this summer tinkering with a number of projects that involve Adobe AIR. The latest one is library that enables you to update native AIR applications. You probably know that AIR 2 introduced a cool feature that lets you call processes from your AIR application (Native Processes API) as long as you package your application as a native installer (EXE, DMG, RPM etc). Once you do this, the built-in feature for update doesn’t work anymore.

If you want to have update capabilities with AIR 2 native installers you can use Piotr’s library or you can build your own mechanism. The choice is pretty simple, isn’t it?

Here is a video in which Piotr demos the library:

You can get the library from here or read Piotr’s post.

August 25, 2010 | Filed Under AIR 

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2 Responses to “Application Updater Library for AIR Native Installer Apps”

  1. 1. Chrys on August 25th, 2010 4:22 pm

    Your article is not politically correct. Why it matters so much that Piotr is evangelist. Evangelists know the adobe suite better then the rest of the people? Or if a non-evangelist would want to publish a library with your help he should reassess his beliefs?
    Seriously now.

  2. 2. Arun Ganesh on August 25th, 2010 9:35 pm

    Hi Piotr,
    Thanks a lot for this work. It saves my time. I really struggled for last few weeks to fix this one. Your SWC works fine for me.
    Thanks Again…

    With Regards,
    Arun P. Ganesh

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