Adobe AIR application can be created by using mainly three technologies.
-- First one is Ajax.
-- Second is adobe flex.
-- Third is adobe flash.
There are lots of tools, those can be used in air application development. But on minimal side, a text editor and Adobe's air SDK(software development kit) is required.
Anyhow IDE's like Dreamweaver can also be used.
Create AIR application:
-- Create folder for AIR application/project.
-- In this folder, create two files, one will be HTML file and second one will be XML file.
-- Adobe's AIR SDK will be used to make/build and AIR application from these two files.
Installation and configuration of SDK:
Adobe AIR and Adobe AIR SDK are two different softwares.
Adobe AIR is necessary to install on system to run AIR applications.
Adobe AIR SDK is used in development and testing of AIR applications.
Adobe AIR SDK many things like:
-- XML sample/template file.
-- Libraries and code (framework)
-- Commandline tools for application development and testing.
-- Sample applications and icons.
Adobe AIR SDK can not run or install without Java runtime envoirnment (JRE) or Java development Kit (JDK). These are available as free from following URL:
http://java.sun.com
so before installing SDK, you have to install JRE of JDK on the computer.
The SDK can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/sdk/
-- download SDK from this location.
-- Unzip the downloaded file.
-- Copy contents of this unzipped folder to some other directory of computer.
-- System path should be updated. So bin directory of SDK should be included in system path.
Note:
JRE and JDK are not required to run AIR applications. These are required only for SDK.