Adding a “Check For Updates” button to your Air application

Adobe Air ships with a sensational “Application Update” framework that makes deploying new versions of your application a snack. There’s even a fantastic blog post on how to get started using it. Typically it just involves throwing a few lines of ActionScript into your app’s startup: var appUpdater:ApplicationUpdaterUI = new ApplicationUpdaterUI(); appUpdater.configurationFile = new File(“app:/updateConfig.xml”); appUpdater.initialize(); Then throwing together a few lines of updateConfig.xml to set the period of the check and which error dialogs [...]