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Building AIR Applications for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS Devices

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:

• Setting the properties of an application descriptor file manually
• Specifying image icons for an application
• Setting permissions for Android and BlackBerry applications
• Packaging AIR applications for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS
• Updating AIR applications

In this chapter you'll take a look at some of the elements involved in constructing AIR apps, outside the task of actually coding an application.

First, you'll explore the core components of the AIR application descriptor file, understanding how to specify settings for it, covering image icon assignment, and setting Android permissions and specifying iOS settings.

You'll close the chapter by packaging a mobile application using Flash Builder, and then look at how you can update AIR applications that aren't uploaded to a target platform's marketplace.