AIR 2.0 beta release

On the Adobe Labs website they posted an AIR 2.0 distribution, one of Adobe’s most anticipated products. Versions for all operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux), as well as for x86 netbooks have beta status.

Simultaneously with the development platform, a new version of Flash Player 10.1 has been released . Among the main innovations of the platform 2.0 and player - support for multitouch and local microphone. In Flash Player 10.1, hardware acceleration appeared when decoding H.264 video, and an old Unicode bug was fixed in non-Windows operating systems.

The official announcement of AIR 2.0 took place at the Adobe MAX 2009 conference a month ago, at the same time its specifications were announced: see a detailed overview of AIR 2.0 features and video under Habrakat.

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Useful links (thanks to k4d )
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Demo of AIR 2 features on Adobe MAX 2009 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKD3ZQJgH2w
A demo of multi-touch capabilities in Adobe AIR 2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on Adobe MAX 2009 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=va33sU-_Bzk

Video of preliminary demonstrations of Flash Player 10.1 and interviews (Flash Player demo on Palm Pre, Toshiba TG01, Multi-touch support, graphics acceleration, etc.) - www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/mobile_demos_fp10.1.html
Adobe AIR Developer Center - www.adobe.com/devnet/air
Adobe Flash Player Developer Center - www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer
Flash Player 10.1 features and improvements - labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/features.html
Adobe AIR Team Blog - blogs.adobe.com/air
Adobe Flash Platform Blog - blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform
Examples of AIR 2 applications - labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/samples
AIR 2 Developer FAQ - labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR_2 : Developer_FAQ