Check out the demo of a prototype Android tablet running Flash and AIR applications, being demonstrated the at Web 2.0 Expo. Of course we all want to know what the hardware is, but it’s clearly a proof-of-concept device that Adobe got together, with help from Tegra 2 as it tuns out, to remind everyone that Steve may not get everything he wants after all. Stay tuned…

(via engaget)

When it comes to finding radio stations online, you could always Google, but that’s hardly efficient. What you need is Antenna a free application based on the Adobe AIR Runtime with a very slick, map-based interface which you can use to find online radio stations very easily, based on their geographic location or genre. Nice tool. (via Jim Rutherford)

Christian Cantrell writes a secure plugin architecture for AIR applications, finds it was easier than he thought it might be, then gives us a post on extending AIR apps with plugins, as he transforms his own SearchCentral application into ‘Pluggable SearchCentral’.

With the command line-based ASDoc tool you can write simple comments in AS3 classes, then create HTML documentation out of them, which lets you maintain your source code and documentation simultaneously. ASDocr builds upon the nativeProcess APIs in AIR 2.0 and gives you an easy GUI for ASDoc. Grant Skinner gives us an overview and shows it in action.

If you run Google Tasks in a window that “pops out” of Gmail you may have run into the problem of your task window closing accidentally when you close your browser, or even when you switch over to your browser. You can find applications through which you can run Google Tasks on your desktop, but irritatingly is the mobile version of Google Tasks, not the full version.

Christian Cantrell has created a slick little application called TaskWrapper, done in Adobe Air, which gives you a full version of Google Tasks that runs on your desktop. Cross platform obviously, and it appeared useful enough to me that I just installed it myself.

How did I miss this? AIR evangelist Christian Cantrell has created a comprehensive list of new features that are planned for inclusion in AIR 2.0. Multi-touch, gestures…check it out.

This tutorial will walk you through the basics of skinning your Flex or Air app from the very beginning. Very well done with plenty of code illustrations.

Christian Cantrell wrote an app called HTTPeek, to validate AIR 2 new ServerSocket APIs. It is a proxy server sitting between your browser and the network that shows HTTP request and response headers.
Have a look at the demo video.

Paypal Express Checkout makes the checkout process a lot faster when you buy something using PayPal– the problem is that there are security implications if you want to use it in stateful apps. With knowledge of Flex, ActionScript 3, and PHP this article will guide you in integrating PayPal Express Checkout with Adobe AIR applications or Flex apps running in Flash Player. Covered is security and UI, the architectural approach and implementation.

If you are a web designer, here’s a list of useful applications from Web Design Ledger that happen to have been created with Adobe Air. Check out Fractal4D and Icon Generator. Actually even non-designers might find an easy image sizer handy.