Making AIR

So I wanted to delve into the world of making an AIR application.  From what I have heard, it’s almost as easy as making a Flex application.  But getting things set up wasn’t as easy as I had hoped.  I spent quite some time searching around the internets trying to find answers to many problems I had.  Fortunately someone on the Powerflasher forum was kind enough to help me out through some of the rough parts.  Check out my post if you are having trouble setting up FDT to create an AIR application.   You will have to jump through some hoops.  Note that I am using FDT 4 M2 at the time of this writing.  I am also using the HelloWorld example from this blog post (at the bottom of the page).

My Run Configuration for the project are as follows:

Main tab

• Project : HelloWorld
• AIR release file name : publish/HelloWorld.air

Application Descriptor

• Application descriptor file : debug/settings/HellowWorld-app.xml

Certificate

Choose Certificate

• Path : debug/settings/exampleCert.pfx
• Certificate Password : examplePW

Assets

Include Directory

• assets/icons
  

Include Files as

• File : C:\home\projects\testing\HelloWorld\debug/HelloWorld.swf