AIR

Overview

The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform runtime for iOS and Android. It allows you to develop using ActionScript (a objected-oriented, strongly typed relative of JavaScript) by providing the Flash Player virtual machine to abstract away from the underlying hardware, with an extended API available to access device capabilities such as GPS and camera. Furthermore, this allows developers to use the Apache Flex enterprise application framework which provides its own UI components (and an associated UI framework), data binding, advanced data structures and other essential utilities. Flex also introduces the MXML language for the declarative creation of user interfaces.

The PropertyCross implementation uses the Presentation Model with services following the Command Pattern. For better separation of concerns, the Spicelib Parsley inversion-of-control framework providing, amongst other things, dependency injection and a messaging framework, was used. All code is shared between platforms, with styling differences managed using media queries in the CSS stylesheet.

To view the code and detailed build steps, see the github source.

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