Adobe AIR Lands in the Android Market, Apps Also Emerge

Software giant Adobe has just announced the availability of a new runtime aimed at application developers all around the world, namely Adobe AIR for Android.

The availability of Adobe AIR in the Android Market should result in a series of very appealing applications being released for handsets running under Google's mobile operating system.

“Adobe AIR will let you publish ActionScript 3 projects to run as native applications (.apk) for the Android OS. These AIR applications can be delivered to Android devices through Android application stores such as the Android Market,” the company announced.

The process of building apps for Android using the runtime is pretty simple, and developers using Flash Builder or Flash Professional CS5 can get their AIR apps in the Android market right away.

However, in order for apps to work on mobile phones, users would have to download and install the solution on their handsets.

The video demo embedded at the bottom of this article should offer all the necessary info on what the building of apps using Adobe AIR is all about.

“Developers can write new code or reuse existing web content to build AIR applications for the Android OS,” Adobe notes on it website.

“Because the source code and assets are reusable across the Flash Platform runtimes, Adobe AIR and Flash Player, it also gives developers a way to more easily target other mobile and desktop environments,” the company continues.

Ryan Stewart, platform evangelist for Adobe, has published some details on what developers would need to do to have their AIR-based applications included in the Android Market.

The process is said to be a quite simple one, and all the necessary info on the matter is available in the said post, here.

We should also note that the first AIR applications have already started to emerge, and that a quick look at AppBrain here would offer a list of some already published solutions.