Hey! Another free AIR app! This time that ain’t no side project I made on my free time for some obscure users, but rather a big thingy for a big com­pany. Namely Foto­lia.

I did all of the cod­ing part (Action­Script 3, Flex 4) and Steaw is respon­si­ble for the UI and all graph­ics. The app is basi­cally a solu­tion for power-users, pro­vid­ing most of the func­tion­nal­i­ties of the web­site and adding some more (such as direct down­load and local library). Allow­ing you to search, browse pre­view and buy all types of medias, includ­ing video and vectors. You can also log into your account and store your favorites in a light­box or cre­ate and fill gal­leries.

This is my first multi-lingual app: to this day it pro­vides 13 trans­la­tions includ­ing Japan­ese, Chi­nese and other funny look­ing languages!

Flex 4

This is also my first big real-life project with Flex 4 and I have to say it’s way better/easier than Flex 3. Really. What changed my life is the way it han­dles states and com­po­nent cus­tomiza­tion via skins… Oh boy, this is easy!

AIR 2.0

Yep, using the brand new AIR 2.0.2, buddy. What for? Mainly for global error han­dling and the almighty open­With­De­fault­Ap­pli­ca­tion (for both folder and medias). I’ve also heard this ver­sion of the run­time is faster and lighter, and we all like that.

Open­Source

As for every project I work on, I try to have some Open­Source bits so that any­one can ben­e­fit from the work and time I spent on it. I asked Foto­lia if the AS3 API I was going to write could be OpenSource’d and guess what, they accepted. So here it is, based on the as3-rpclib and on the as3 Sig­nals logic: fotolia-as3-api. I imple­mented most of (if not all) fea­tures of their offi­cial API so build­ing an AS3 app off of that should be pretty easy, do so!

Go get it!

Yeah, go get it.