Build an Adobe AIR RSS reader
If you like to keep up to date with all the latest happenings on the internet, you might have a few desktop widgets that read XML from different sources or load up your blog aggregator, which you have a scan of with your morning coffee and doughnut. Well, have you ever wondered how they create the desktop widget? In this walkthrough, you will learn how to pull in the blog feed from the Web Designer blog and display on a desktop widget, which you can drag, minimise and maximise. This tutorial will be your first steps to creating your own desktop aggregator, because once you have learnt how to create the widget with one feed, it will not be hard to extend the application to display other feeds. So enough talk, and let’s get on with creating your first Adobe AIR application.
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