Overview of the Adobe^® AIR^® API Reference for HTML Developers

The Adobe AIR API Reference for HTML Developers includes details on Adobe AIR APIs. Adobe AIR APIs are available to JavaScript code in HTML-based AIR applications via the window.runtime object. You can also reference these classes via the air object by including the AIRAliases.js file in your code:

           <script src="AIRAliases.js" />        

The AIR runtime classes in this language reference are only availble to content in the application security sandbox. For more information, see the HTML Developer's Guide for Adobe AIR book.

This language reference documents only those classes of interest to developers of HTML-based AIR applications. Other runtime classes, while still available via the window.runtime object, are not documented in this reference, as they are applicable for developers of SWF-based AIR applications (which use the ActionScript 3.0 display list DOM, instead of the HTML DOM). For details on additional runtime classes for SWF-based AIR application development, see the Adobe ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform.