Adobe AIR 2.5 ?

[USCode]

Has anyone here tried working with Adobe AIR 2.5?
Thoughts? (Good and/or bad!)

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

[ColBoy]

Not played with 2.5 yet, but written a few small systems in prior versions of Adobe Air. I like it, especially for cross platform stuff. There's lots to get your head around and no RAD dev environment, but Aptana at least eases the pain.

Colin

[USCode]

... no RAD dev environment, but Aptana at least eases the pain.

I find their website very unclear so I wasn't sure, but isn't Flash Builder 4 their RAD for AIR?
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/

[Kiffi]

but isn't Flash Builder 4 their RAD for AIR?

yes, it is. With Flash Builder you can develop Flex- and Air-Applications.

An open source alternative to Flash Builder is FlashDevelop (unfortunately without a graphical Designer).

Greetings ... Kiffi

[USCode]

In addition to Windows, Mac and Linux, I see they are now supporting mobile platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Tablet OS and even iOS.

[X]

iOS isn't directly supported. You need to use a seperate tool (packager) to convert the code over. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/packagerforiphone/. We use Flex and Air at work here. Air's proper support (finally) for ssl/sockets in 2.5 is huge for some companies. The native Android support is sweat. However Air/Flex suffers from the same basic defect that Java and .Net have. Easily view the source code.

[rsts]

Can I work with Air via PB?

cheers

[USCode]

... However Air/Flex suffers from the same basic defect that Java and .Net have. Easily view the source code.

Interesting. The tools developers (e.g. Sun, Microsoft, Adobe) don't seem to be as concerned about this as developers are or it's a problem they don't seem to be able to satisfactorily solve.