Air Updater made easy, with scheduling

If you are developing an Air application, you should to know how it is important to use the great automatic update process provided by the Air framework. Having the option to fix some bugs or give more features to your users, with a seamless process, is quite amazing.

If you are using Flash CS4, you must include manually a required library, which is already present in Flash CS4.
In Publish Setting / Flash / Settings of ActionScript 3.0, select the Library path tab. Add a new field and search in your system the applicationupdater_ui.swc library:

// inside the Flash CS4 folder, follow this path to find the library to include:
AIK1.5/frameworks/libs/air/applicationupdater_ui.swc

Now I will explain how to include this feature by using a custom class, available for download, which allow to run, at scheduled time, the process using one line of code, pretty like to:

import maja.air.AppUpdater

var pathToXml:String = "http://www.myServer.com/myApp.xml"
var schedulingDays:int = 7
var update:AppUpdater = new AppUpdater(  pathToXml , schedulingDays )

Where the pathToXml is the absolute path to an xml file put online on your server, and schedulingDays stand for the number of days to wait for check from the last available check, so the periodical check (default: 7, use 0 to force the check each application run).

The xml file should be look like to: