# What is adobe AIR and for what purpose it is used?

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**Created:** [June 18, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-adobe-air-and-for-what-purpose-it-is-used/263663 "2008-06-18T03:57:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![TVM\_XST](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@TVM\_XST](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TVM_XST)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-adobe-air-and-for-what-purpose-it-is-used/263663/1 "2008-06-18T03:57:22Z")

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What is adobe AIR and for what purpose it is used ?:rambo:

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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-adobe-air-and-for-what-purpose-it-is-used/263663/2 "2008-06-18T06:11:25Z")

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Let’s you develop windows applications using web languages. It’s for people familiar with web design that couldn’t develop Windows programs before because of not knowing C++ or whatnot well enough.

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**Author:** ![TVM\_XST](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@TVM\_XST](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TVM_XST)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-adobe-air-and-for-what-purpose-it-is-used/263663/3 "2008-06-18T10:02:37Z")

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Thanks ,  
Is it possible to create hardware interacting applications ?

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**Author:** ![Stratification](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Stratification](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stratification)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-adobe-air-and-for-what-purpose-it-is-used/263663/4 "2008-06-18T15:37:16Z")

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Interaction with hardware isn’t really possible at this point. Mostly just the file system. In order to keep it functioning cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) they’ve simplified some things, hardware access being one of them.