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Adobe AIR 3

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What is Adobe AIR?

The Adobe® AIR® runtime enables developers to deploy standalone applications built with HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript®, Flex, Adobe Flash® Professional, and Adobe Flash Builder® across platforms and devices — including Android™, BlackBerry®, iOS devices, personal computers, and televisions.

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Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering

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Explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe, which provides low-level Stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps and gives framework developers classes of interactive experiences.

 

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Native extensions for Adobe AIR

Use native code to take advantage of the same platform- and device-specific native capabilities and APIs available to native apps, with easy integration into AIR applications.

Captive runtime support

Captive runtime support

Developers now have more flexibility with their app packaging options and can automatically package AIR 3 with their Android™, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS app into a single installation file that includes the app and a bundled version of the AIR runtime.

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