Christian Cantrell is talking about Application Update APIs in Apollo. This is the one thing I’m a little worried about, becuase I hope that Apollo is as easy to update as a web application. That makes the “bridging the web” idea even more plausible. Here’s how it works:
Apollo applications can call Update functions which you point at a specific AIR file in the form Updater.update(airfile). He did a quick demo of an application checking an AIR file on the server, updating itself, then launching the new version. He said that they’re looking at providing a framework around updating so that a lot of the hard work is obfuscated and developers can easily add update functionality to their applications.
Hopefully I can catch Christian today and ask him more about this. It’s the first time I’ve heard people talk about the update mechanisms publicly.
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