A while back I was thinking if it would be possible to play video in the dock icon with AIR. Then I heard Lee Brimelow ask the same question during his FITC Amsterdam presentation. Last week I had a free moment during the Zurich AIR camp to give it a try and yes… it does work.
First of all let’s think about use-cases for this. Imagine having a video player and when you minimize the app, you can continue watching your video in the dock. Obviously, this will still use the resources needed to actually play the video but I think it’s really cool and wouldn’t actually mind seeing this in an application like the Adobe Media Player. You could even have the user set this option in a prefs panel etc… (more…)
