A very quick overview and demo of the AIR 2.6 for iOS update.

Monday night, Adobe released a new, experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool codenamed Wallaby.

Wallaby is an AIR app that lets devs and designers quickly and simply convert Flash Professional files to HTML5 — and when we say “simply and easily,” we mean it’s a matter of dragging and dropping. The company is specifically hoping this tool will make it easier for designers and developers to get their content onto iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.

We saw a demo of Wallaby last fall; while some of the company’s CS5 software offered HTML5 plugins already, we said Wallaby was different because it supported elements and resources within animations, not just the animations themselves.

Wallaby is being released on Adobe Labs; Adobe is asking devs and designers to take it for a test drive, see how the HTML5 code looks, and give feedback accordingly.

via mashable.com

Hero

Welcome to the next version of the Flex SDK, code-named Hero. The Hero release has three main goals:

• Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework.

• Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities.

• Large-Application Development: Support developers building large applications by improving fundamental pieces of the Flex infrastructure.

This is a preview build of the next Flex SDK, which is what we'll be using when we develop desktop AIR apps and mobile AIR apps for Android devices. (And perhaps iOS devices as well.)

Flash Builder "Burrito" is now available in 'preview'; it's used for developing AIR for Android apps in Flash Builder. Up until now AIR for Android apps had to be built in Flash, which doesn't use the Flex framework.

Beta developer tools for creating AIR apps that will run on BlackBerry's Tablet.

A simple AIR app for the Android which shows off how AIR can access the devices' hardware, gestures, etc. Now if only it could access the Bluetooth data stream. -.-

Adobe AIR is now available on the Android Market! :D

This article is about the process of getting an AIR app onto the Android Market. I imagine we'll see a boom in AIR mobile development in the near future.

I've been researching app marketplaces for a possible Buzz Blog post, and this is certainly interesting news. Adobe has a website with AIR apps on it, a few of them for $$$.. I wonder what this new marketplace concept (it's in beta) will be like.