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Flash. FRESteamWorks. Oldes/FRESteamWorks. Steam — Search Results. Adding auto update features to your AIR application in 3 easy steps. UPDATED 08/27/2010: We just released Adobe AIR Launchpad, a new desktop tool that helps Adobe Flex developers get started building desktop applications deployed on Adobe AIR. Auto-update is an included feature, so you can use Launchpad to generate your auto-update code. Native Installers now can have auto-update! : If you need to add auto-update to your AIR 2 application that uses a native installer, Piotr Walczyszyn created a solution!

Piotr blogged about it at Most modern desktop applications, browser plugins, OS’s, etc. automatically check for updates periodically, and some of them even handle the update process with a single click so it’s easy to stay current. When building AIR applications, it’s also important to provide a good auto-update feature. During the past several weeks, I’ve been managing a project to build an internal AIR application.

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