Before installing any of these applications, the Android based hardware must first have the Adobe Air app installed. Some phones will come with this pre-installed (or will have it pre-installed after an OS upgrade), other require you first install it.

Smart phones supported (at time of writing) include: Motorola DROID 1/2/R2-D2, Google Nexus One, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, HTC Evo, Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Google G2.

As with the other mobile apps stores (apple for example), apps are listed by category and support user ratings. It’s very early days for mobile AIR apps, but with time I think we will see some big software developers jump on the bandwagon.

We hope to soon release some tutorials on building AIR app for the Android store. Any ideas are very welcome!

Check out to store.

Quoted from the Intel press release:

“Optimizing Adobe Flash Technology on Intel® Media Processor CE 3100 Will Enable Rich and Seamless Web Content on TV…

The high-definition capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform, together with the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100, the first in a new family of purpose-built Intel System on Chips (SoCs) for CE devices, creates a powerful entertainment hub capable of delivering rich Web content and Adobe Flash based applications to an array of Internet-connected CE devices. Intel and Adobe are working together to optimize both the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Flash Lite™ for the CE3100. Intel plans to ship the first CE3100 with support for an optimized implementation of Adobe Flash Lite before mid-2009...”

Lets hope that the new Flash chips are Flashable

Amethyst will come as a free Personal addition or a commercial version (released later).

UPDATE: The Beta version is now available for download.

Free Personal Edition:

“Amethyst Personal is a free Flex/AIR IDE which will provide a project management, editing, building and launching environment for Flex/AIR/ActionScript. This will be completely free and may optionally be installed into the free Visual Studio ‘shell’ edition.”

Professional Edition:

“Amethyst Professional will provide a drag+drop visual design environment for Flex and AIR. The visual designer will integrate with Visual Studio’s Toolbox, Property panels and code editor to provide a seamless design-and-code experience which will be familiar to C# and VB developers…..”

They expect to release the Personal Edition next week, and the Professional edition should be available in a few months.

Could this really be an alternative to the Adobe Flex Builder? only time will tell.

First we will start with the latest Top 10 AIR application list published by Sean P Aune over at Mashable.

1. DeskTube
“DeskTube lets you get complete control over YouTube on your desktop. Search, watch, comment, get embed codes, upload your own videos and even download the…”

2. Dorame
“Dorame doesn’t add much to the Pandora listening experience, but it does give you the freedom of being outside of your browser…”

3. EarthBrowser
“EarthBrowser gives you live updates of clouds, earthquakes, the weather, satellite overlays, volcanoes, fires and a whole lot more.”

4. Feedalizr
“Many people have downloaded service specific apps like TweetDeck, Twhirl and so on, but Feedalizr rolls several social tools into one app…”

5. Google Analytics
“While most people love looking at statistics about their websites, Google Analytics can be a bit slow at times for those webmasters that use their tools…”

6. MiniTask
“A desktop tool for creating detailed to-do lists that you can separate out by categories, copy the items out to other programs…”

7. Posty
“Get all of your FriendFeed. Identi.ca, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and Twitter updates in one handy application with built-in URL shortening, spell checking…”

8. TweetDeck
“While it seems that apps that only work with one social site are becoming passe, TweetDeck gives you so much control over how you see your Tweets, it is well worth it.  Your incoming messages are already split into columns for timeline, replies and direct messages…”

9. Twhirl
“The odds are fairly high that this is the application you installed Adobe Air for in the first place, but that doesn’t exclude it from the list in case it wasn’t.  Probably the most popular of the Twitter clients…”

10. Yammer
“Yammer, the private corporate microblogging service, gets a desktop client that runs on the Adobe AIR platform, allowing you to use all the features…”

Next up we have the ‘6 Adobe AIR Apps to check out‘ posted by Sarah Perez over on ReadWriteWeb

1. Twhirl
“It goes without saying that one of the most popular AIR applications is the Twitter client….”

2. Google Analytics
“For web site owners, measuring traffic and visitor stats are crucial tasks to managing the site and improving performance…”

3. RichFLV
“RichFLVis an AIR app that lets you edit Flash Video (FLV) files…”

4. AgileAgenda
“AgileAgenda is a project scheduling utility which lets project managers enter data about tasks…”

5. AOL Top 100 Videos
“This desktop widget lets you view the latest music videos, related artist videos, and special features provided by AOL…”

6. Xdrive Lite
“Xdrive Lite is a new AIR app that was just launched today, but it certainly has potential to be one of the better apps…”

There are many other top Air application lists including..

Top 10 Adobe AIR must see applications from webresourcesdepot – perhaps a little dated by todays standards, but still some nice ones in there!

Great Adobe AIR Applications to Check Out from Simon Whatley – written up a while back.

To complete this list of lists, here are some nice AIR Application resources:

RefreshingApps – Lists and reviews of Adobe AIR applications

Adobe AIR application showcase – Lists of applications used by big companys.

Adobe AIR Marketplace – resources and AIR applications by Adobe.

Enjoy these lists…