A few libraries (as3nativealertlib and AirAlert) claim to provide native alert dialogs to Flex/AIR—but each one emulates the UI, which isn’t quite ideal.
A workaround is to use the HTMLLoader class to get totally-native modal alerts laid out by the OS. This works by leveraging Flex/AIR’s integration of Webkit into the runtime. Calling the alert method of the window triggers an alert just as a web browser would.
var htmlInterface:HTMLLoader; function alert(message:String):void { if (!htmlInterface) { htmlInterface = new HTMLLoader(); htmlInterface.loadString('<html><head></head><body></body></html>'); } try { htmlInterface.window.alert(message); } catch (e:Error) {} }
Not exactly the cleanest of solutions… but it works! The only downside is the inability to set the title of the dialog.