Adobe has released betas AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 , almost simultaneously. Both were announced since early October, and knew about their news, as already proposed in the case of AIR. Both Adobe AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 includes the following improvements:

Support for multi-touch and gestures for which you need a touch screen, of course.

Global error manager, which allows developers to write a handler that processes all run-time errors.

Support for local access to the microphone, so do not need to pass the audio through a server in order to save it locally, as at present. This, as noted, will certainly arise for podcasting applications.

But the greatest novelty brings Adobe Flash Player 10.1, which now lets you use the
hardware to decode H.264 video in Windows
• (for both PC and ultra mobile devices). Yes, for Windows only. Thus, if you have a decentita graphics card, you can use it to play videos in high definition, lightening the workload of the
• CPU

. Will be very useful for when you go to YouTube you high definition 1080p.

• As for phones, however, is not expected to have support for Google Android until early next year, and Blackberries have to wait some more.

Adobe

AIR

2.0 has its own news:

• API
• native process: it allows applications to communicate with native applications on local machines.

Detection of mass storage devices: we, who from applications

AIR

have access to pen drives, camera memory, and any other storage device connected to
USB
. API to open documents: Applications
AIR
may request the operating system which application is associated with what file extension. Improved support for sockets: allowing emerging applications AIR as local servers and P2P applications, to give an example WebKit fastest: an improved version of the integrated engine, which includes a faster JavaScript engine and support for HTML5 and CSS3

Needless to say all these improvements are complemented by the standard claim of “improved speed and performance.”

Vía | TechCrunch

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AIR

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