Download Adobe AIR 1.5.1

Adobe Integrated Runtime is a cross-platform runtime environment for developing so-called ‘rich internet applications’ that can be offered as a desktop application. These applications can use Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML and Ajax and the local system resources such as the file system to store data, unlike rich internet applications that run in the internet browser. For an overview of various applications that have been developed using Adobe AIR, we refer you to the Adobe AIR marketplace. The developers released a new version of AIR a few days ago with 1.5.1 as the version number this time. The announcement of this release looks like this:

Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Released

Today we released Adobe AIR 1.5.1, a relatively minor update that includes a number of bug fixes. The new builds are available for Windows, Mac and Linux on the Adobe AIR download center.

Oliver Goldman, a member of the AIR engineering team, posted a blog entry titled “Using InvokeEvent.reason in AIR 1.5.1” that describes a new API that was also added. If you have built an AIR application that launches at startup, you may want to check out Oliver’s overview of how this feature works.

You do not need to recompile your application to take advantage of the 1.5.1 improvements. However, if you want to take advantage of the new APIs introduced in this release you will need to update your application descriptor to 1.5.1 (see New APIs section of the release notes) and recompile your application.

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Related links:

• Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Developer and User Release Notes
• Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Documentation
• Download the Adobe AIR SDK
• How to overlay AIR SDK for use with Flex SDK
• Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Known Issues and Limitations
• Adobe AIR Forums