Chapter 8. Distributing and updating AIR applications
This chapter covers
- Understanding how to distribute applications
- Creating AIR application badges
- Updating applications
- Handling various application invocation methods
You’ve now learned a tremendous amount about Adobe AIR. With what you have learned in the preceding chapters, you’ve likely already built many applications (such as AirTube), or at least you have ideas for a few great applications. Whatever the current state of those applications, whether complete or still in the idea stages, at some point you’re going to face the following questions:
- How can you best distribute the application to users?
- What is the best way for users to install the application?
- How can you make sure users are running the latest version of the application?
- How can you deploy updates?
- What are the various ways in which a user can run an AIR application?
In this chapter, we’re going to look at each of these questions in more detail. We’ll start by looking at how you can best distribute applications and allow users to install them.