AIR 2.6 for Android 2.2, 2.3, and 3.0 is out

Our teams did a great job: in less than a year from the initial support for Android 2.2 (AIR 2.5 last autumn) they released, today, AIR 2.6 for Android devices running 2.2, 2.3, and Honeycomb (3.0).

Here are some of the new features:

Automatic soft keyboard support – this feature enables support for the soft keyboard even for applications that weren’t designed from the ground up for mobile (the keyboard raises and lowers automatically)
Asynchronous bitmap decoding - you can improve the bitmap loading/displaying by using this feature.
USB debugging for Android – yeah baby, now I can debug while sitting in a plane:). As the name says, when you have your device connected through the USB cable you are able to deploy and debug the application without requiring a WiFi connection. You’ll find Android USB drivers for Windows in the AIR SDK.

If you have applications compiled for AIR 2.5, you don’t have to worry, they will run on AIR 2.6 without recompilation!

February 24, 2011 | Filed Under Others

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3 Responses to “AIR 2.6 for Android 2.2, 2.3, and 3.0 is out”

1. Tweets that mention AIR 2.6 for Android 2.2, 2.3, and 3.0 is out : Mihai Corlan -- Topsy.com on February 25th, 2011 12:11 am

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mihai Corlan, eduvos. eduvos said: RT @mcorlan: AIR 2.6 for Android 2.2, 2.3, 3.0 on Android Market: http://corlan.org/2011/02/24/air-2-6-for-android-2-2-2-3-and-3-0-is-out/ [...]
2. Air 2.6 out for Android devices on February 25th, 2011 3:17 am

[...] Nice. Finally great to see an update out for Android which is supported on all devices running 2.2 and up to 3.0 Honeycomb. I honestly can’t wait to get my hands on a Xoom when they make it off of Verizon exclusively. We don’t have them up in Canada and I suspect I’ll get a Playbook in my hands before then but I’m still quite keen to get rolling with a Xoom too. Very impressive stuff there and now with the latest of AIR on there it’ll rock some really nice apps with some really powerful functionality. Check out more details all over the place but I would start on this page by Mihai. [...]
3. vamapaull on February 26th, 2011 3:14 am

A very useful update!