Adobe AIR 2.0 Beta 2 released!
2010 February 2
Adobe AIR 2.0 Beta 2 was just released; it is available here on Adobe Labs!
New features:
- Enhanced Printer Interaction: New printing support allows finer control of the way content is printed from an AIR application, including the choice of printer, paper size, and number of copies. New APIs allow a developer to retrieve additional printing information, such as printable area, whether the printer will print in color, and whether the print job is currently active. It is also possible to print without displaying the print dialog.
- Support for TLS/SSL socket communication: You can now connect to a server that requires TLSv1 or SSLv3 for socket communications.
- IME API and IME Text Input Enhancement: There are several new features added in this release to support better text input handling with IME software. The new API enhancements are designed for use with the new Flash Text Engine (FTE).
You can find updated sample applications here.
IMPORTANT: Applications built against Adobe AIR 2 Beta 1 will not run using the AIR 2 beta 2 runtime. In order for an AIR 2 Beta 1 application to run on the AIR 2 Beta 2 runtime, the namespace of the Beta 1 application descriptor file must first be updated to “2.0beta2″ and the application must be recompiled using the AIR 2 Beta 2 SDK.
Yeah, great news
Can’t wait for final release!
Any idea about final release date
Unfortunately Adobe is not yet disclosing the final release date for AIR 2, however we expect it to be in the first half of 2010
Piotr,
do you know if Enhanced Printer Interaction classes are available (will be available) for pure flex applications or this is only AIR classes?
If not I am looking forward to see one time good solution for printing in Flex app.
I would be nice to have preview functionaliy which we can relay. Currently, Flex does not allow make trustfull preview before sending something to print job.
Anyway, good news for AIR users.
tia,
Adam