Disable AIR auto-update - No way to automate

Recently i got a requirement that when an AIR application is installed and run by the user, AIR should not check for auto-updates. After googling for few hours i found that it is highly impossible to automate this.

Adobe provides a solution to stop AIR engine to check for updates. The application http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/applications/SettingsManager/SettingsManager.air provides the option to disable / enable updates. But this requires a manual effort.

Adobe should have provided the option to enable / disable auto-updates at the application level. Each AIR application should have the option to set auto-update option. If an application has disabled auto-updates, then when the AIR engine loads it should check this option and should not try to update.

If any of you guys have a workaround, i would love to hear it.

30onair at Chennai Flex User Group

March 1 2008 - Chennai Flex User Group officially launched Adobe AIR 1.0 and flex 3. The event was organized by Ananth and me, along with the support of John Koch. The event was scheduled for 11.00 am at HeyMath! office. Around 12 members from the group attended the launch event. The event was kicked off with a presentation by Kevin Lynch. The presentation was around 10-15 mins. After that it was time to distribute AIR t-shirts and Flex 2.0 text book to all the members. Thanks to Adobe for the support. Then we guys had discussions on Adobe technologies especially Flex and AIR. It was very very formal. Everyone had their chance to speak on it.
After the heated discussions we had snacks as refreshments. Thanks to HeyMath! for the support. As we reached the end of the event, we still haven't shoot the "30 sec on Adobe Technologies" video with the members. First to come up for the shoot was Sahil Haslani. He spoke about "Why Flex?" for 30 secs. Next it was my CTO Ananth, who initially took few minutes to think but came with a stunning explanation about "Why Adobe?". As usual he couldn't resist using the whiteboard :).
Next it was Viswanathan who spoke about "Why Flex?" and to follow him was my colleagues Umesh and Shankar

Anantharaman - 30onair - Why Adobe?


Sahil - 30onair - Why Flex?


Viswanathan - 30onair - Why Flex?



Umesh - 30onair - Why Adobe?




Sankar - 30onair - Why Adobe?

Apollo is now Adobe AIR™

Adobe® has renamed their Rich Internet Application tool Apollo to Adobe® AIR(Adobe Integrated Runtime)™. Adobe labs was found quoted as

"Adobe® AIR™, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills(HTML, JavaScript, Flash, Flex, AJAX ) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop".

Developers can download the SDK of AIR™
To experience the AIR application you need to download and install the Adobe AIR Installer.
Experience the sample applications here.

Note: Before installing the Adobe AIR Installer, uninstall the Apollo alpha if it has been already installed