Developing Adobe AIR applications with Aptana IDE

Adobe releases AIR (formerly code-named Apollo), which stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime, and thus "successor" of Apollo. You can download the beta version released on June 11 here: download AIR

At the same time it is issued to build 0.2.8.15171 Aptana IDE development environment dedicated to exceptional developers HTML, PHP, Rails, Javascript and now with support for AIR.

The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP / SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.

A strong competitor of Adobe Dreamweaver, at least for the coders, seen that it is a free software integrable, inter alia, with Eclipse . Mysteriously, then, Adobe has released an extension to develop Adobe AIR applications only for Dreamweaver CS3, leaving users of version 8! Aptana, therefore, is an excellent alternative to Dreamweaver CS3 for those who want to experience the development of packages for Adobe AIR!

However, in Aptana the lack of a WYSIWYG mode, excellent in Dreamweaver, decreases the potential, which as mentioned above are addressed mainly in the Code Editor. Dreamweaver, especially with the release of CS3, then offers a complete and optimal with Flash CS3, Photoshop CS3 and all other tools of the new Adobe Creative Suite, a feature completely absent in IDEs such as Aptana.

The Aptana IDE, comuqnue is, is spectacular, understandable and all the vital characteristics for a programmer: project management, previews on browsers installed, auto-save, file comparison, display line numbers, fully configurable editor, collapse of the "taggature "XML embedded Debugger high-level support Italian and much more.

Good document management dynamic that allows access to the W3C specification, Javascript and libraries (Web2.0 best known as Dojo, jQuery, Mootools, Yahoo (YUI) and Scriptaculous, all integrated in a single environment despite the documentation itself is taken directly from the net!

Aptana is available for Windows (XP and Vista), Macintosh, Linux and Plugin for Eclipse. On the site are available many features, including a Aptana.tv .

In short, for those who already developed or those who want to start developing applications in Adobe AIR ( here you will find a video tutorial to begin developing Adobe AIR applications ), Aptana is a functional and comfortable, well-integrated into the network and also accompanied by Plugin and extensions, some targeted for particular browsers like FireFox for debugging.

Last note: Some features, such as Plugin for AIR, require the installation of the Java runtime !

5 comments to: " "

  1. June 15, 2007 Web2.0Blog »Blog Archive» Developing AIR applications (Apollo) with Aptana:

    [...] Very interesting article on Undolog concerning the possibility to develop Adobe AIR (Apollo) with Aptana IDE development environment free and open source with which you can develop in various web-oriented languages ​​(PHP, HTML, Javascript , RoR). [...]

  2. June 15, 2007 Alessio:

    Thanks, reporting really interesting!

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  3. March 22, 2008 Undolog.com »Blog Archive» Adobe AIR FAQ: Everything you need to know :

    [...] Aptana IDE + extension [...]

  4. November 17, 2008 Alex:

    Do you know if anyone has tried to use AIR to emulate a desktop client application of industrial automation?

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  5. November 18, 2008 Giovan Battista Fazioli :

    @ Alex: Try to see: http://francescogavello.it/lista-applicazioni-adobe-air-produttivita

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