New functionality in Adobe AIR

This topic provides an overview of the new functionality in Adobe® AIR™ that is not available to SWF content running in Adobe® Flash® Player.

New runtime classes

The following runtime classes are new in Adobe AIR. They are not available to SWF content running in the browser:

Class	Package
BrowserInvokeEvent	flash.events
Clipboard	flash.desktop
ClipboardFormats	flash.desktop
ClipboardTransferMode	flash.desktop
CompressionAlgorithm	flash.utils
DockIcon	flash.desktop
DRMAuthenticateEvent	flash.events
DRMErrorEvent	flash.events
DRMStatusEvent	flash.events
EncryptedLocalStore	flash.data
File	flash.filesystem
FileListEvent	flash.events
FileMode	flash.filesystem
FileStream	flash.filesystem
FocusDirection	flash.display
HTMLHistoryItem	flash.html
HTMLHost	flash.html
HTMLLoader	flash.html
HTMLPDFCapability	flash.html
HTMLUncaughtScriptExceptionEvent	flash.events
HTMLWindowCreateOptions	flash.html
Icon	flash.desktop
InteractiveIcon	flash.desktop
InvokeEvent	flash.events
NativeApplication	flash.desktop
NativeDragActions	flash.desktop
NativeDragEvent	flash.events
NativeDragManager	flash.desktop
NativeDragOptions	flash.desktop
NativeMenu	flash.display
NativeMenuItem	flash.display
NativeWindow	flash.display
NativeWindowBoundsEvent	flash.events
NativeWindowDisplayState	flash.display
NativeWindowDisplayStateEvent	flash.events
NativeWindowInitOptions	flash.display
NativeWindowResize	flash.display
NativeWindowSystemChrome	flash.display
NativeWindowType	flash.display
NotificationType	flash.desktop
OutputProgressEvent	flash.events
RevocationCheckSettings	flash.security
Screen	flash.display
ScreenMouseEvent	flash.events
SignatureStatus	flash.security
SignerTrustSettings	flash.security
SQLCollationType	flash.data
SQLColumnNameStyle	flash.data
SQLColumnSchema	flash.data
SQLConnection	flash.data
SQLError	flash.errors
SQLErrorEvent	flash.events
SQLErrorOperation	flash.errors
SQLEvent	flash.events
SQLIndexSchema	flash.data
SQLResult	flash.data
SQLSchema	flash.data
SQLSchemaResult	flash.data
SQLStatement	flash.data
SQLTableSchema	flash.data
SQLTransactionLockType	flash.data
SQLTriggerSchema	flash.data
SQLUpdateEvent	flash.events
SQLViewSchema	flash.data
SystemTrayIcon	flash.desktop
Updater	flash.desktop
URLRequestDefaults	flash.net
XMLSignatureValidator	flash.utils

Also, the flash.security package includes the IURIDereferencer interface.

Runtime classes with new functionality

The following classes are available to SWF content running in the browser, but AIR provides additional properties or methods:

Class	Property or Method
Event	`DISPLAYING` EXITING HTML_BOUNDS_CHANGE HTML_DOM_INITIALIZE HTML_RENDER LOCATION_CHANGE NETWORK_CHANGE USER_IDLE USER_PRESENT
FileReference	`uploadUnencoded()`
HTTPStatusEvent	`HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS` `responseURL` `responseHeaders`
KeyboardEvent	`commandKey` `controlKey`
LoaderContext	`allowLoadBytesCodeExecution`
LoaderInfo	`parentSandboxBridge` `childSandboxBridge`
NetStream	`resetDRMVouchers()` setDRMAuthenticationCredentials()
URLRequest	`followRedirects` `manageCookies` `shouldAuthenticate` `shouldCacheResponse` `userAgent` `userCache` `setLoginCredentials()`
URLStream	`httpResponseStatus event`
Stage	`nativeWindow`
Security	`APPLICATION`

Most of these new properties and methods are available only to content in the AIR application security sandbox. However, the new members in the URLRequest classes are also available to content running in other sandboxes.

The ByteArray.compress() and ByteArray.uncompress() methods each include a new algorithm parameter, allowing you to choose between deflate and zlib compression.

Service monitoring framework classes

The air.net package contains classes for network detection. This package is only available to content running in Adobe AIR. It is included in the ServiceMonitor.swc file.

The package includes the following classes:

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New functionality in Adobe AIR

New runtime classes

Runtime classes with new functionality

Service monitoring framework classes