What’s new in AIR 1.5.1

Latest Flash Player plug-in

AIR 1.5.1 includes an updated version of Flash Player plug-in (10.0.22) which is used when displaying SWF files inside HTML. For more information, see http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/releasenotes.html.

New APIs

InvokeEvent.reason

This new property of the InvokeEvent event indicates if the user launched the application by the user or automatically at login. The InvokeEventReason class (in the flash.desktop package) defines the two possible string values for the InvokeEvent.reason property. InvokeEventReason.LOGIN defines the login case; InvokeEventReason.STANDARD defines the standard case.

Capabilities.cpuArchitecture

This new property returns the processor architecture of the machine, as a string (such as "PowerPC" or "x86").

If you want to take advantage of these new AIR 1.5.1 APIs, update your application descriptor to use the 1.5.1 namespace:

xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5.1"

If you do not need to use these new APIs, you do not need to update your application descriptor. Your application will be able to run with AIR 1.5.1 when the user updates the version of the runtime installed on their system.

For more information about the AIR 1.5.1 release, see the Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Release Notes (http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_air_relnotes_en).