Air 2.0 – Codename Athena
Ohhhhhh a few new tid bits given out at Flash on the Beach. Mike Chambers posted his presentation slides containing details outlining new features coming in Air 2.0. Its obvious that Chambers is also enjoying his new camera as the PDF presentation is 10mb and has some pretty cool texture backgrounds [ Download here ] [ Slide share version ]
But a simple summary:
“Athena” : StorageVolume APIs
- “Athena” API
- Monitors mounting and un-mounting of storage volumes
- USB / Firewire
- Cameras and Devices that mount as drives
“Athena” : NativeProcess API
- New API in AIR 2.0
- Can call and communicate with external applications
- Requires application be distributed as native installer (no AIR files)
- Cannot execute applications within application directory
- Must add “extendedDesktop” to support profiles
AIR 2.0 : Launch Default
- Allows files to be launched with default application
- Works in any AIR application
- File cannot be in application directory
- File type blacklist
Update: Also Raw microphone access YAY: http://theflashblog.com/?p=1426
Is this also susceptible to the insecure Adobe programming using Javascript?
I would say that’s a loosely qualified comment Pat. But in all seriousness downloading any application from the web etc comes with it a certain amount of risk. The question should be do you trust the source.