Guys, this is getting out of control, let's stick to the talk. I understand your idea to solve the problems and just continue. I've done it numerous times, but this is not the point. The fact that AIR is free is no excuse - if something's wrong with Google - you dare to say you don't like it and ask to fix/change it, right? We've all used Flash and AIR for a long time, and we all see it's evolution and how things change. But they change slowly, and not in the right direction. No one can say that they put a lot of efforts on AIR (and in my opinion in Flash and AS). I won't believe it no matter what. And this is the most painful and frustrating thing - this whole AIR idea is doomed - something that is not further developer IS or WILL be soon dead. Yes, there are workarounds for now, and yes we like it and we still use it, but they don't do it right. They wanted AS4, but dropped it. They try to develop new features, but they do it so slowly and so awkward, that it's just unbelievable. Multi-threading was planned before more than 5 years, right after AS3 was released! And it's made so strange, that I won't believe someone is happy with it. GPU acceleration was a must years ago, and still you are so limited that you cannot even swap Stage3D with StageVideo! And you think this is great?!? I bet none of you has used Feathers for complex applications! And none of you knows exactly how the Milkman's Facebook extension works, as I've sent numerous e-mails to the support as the documentation does not include all cases (different iOS versions and expired tokens bug in the SDK). Pantera said it right, and I will repeat myself - if a single guy can make Feathers (one of the fewest frameworks for GPU accelerated UI), and if a small group of guys (or maybe again one?) can make the most powerful collection of native extensions (Distriqt, which are great and I wouldn't be able to release my app without them).. WHY Adobe IS NOT doing it?! They don't want to invest money in 5 people team to develop all that, or what?? You say this is normal and you say this is the best on the market - to pray for third-party obsolete solutions or just make them by ourselves? Nice. If so - yes, AIR will soon be outdated and dead. And we are still talking about the MOST basic stuff - to make a freaking customized list in Stage3D! Or to put a normal camera to shoot images (Adobe's internal rotates the image depending on OS, WTF?! again - extension). Their GPS is so wrong, that I cannot even explain it (extension maybe?). WHY are they even doing those features if they DO NOT WORK? Oh, alright, we know workarounds (if-else for OS and rotate image, right? it's that simple and I'm stupid). Most common and basic things don't work properly and the documentation is full with "don't use that on iOS", or "works differently on Desktop". But they try to be "innovative" with "new great features, you just need to add few lines to your compiler". Come on guys, uploading bitmap to GPU is so slow, that it's almost a must to do it in the app initialization! What's the current year again? We won't talk about collision detection for gaming, pathfinding, image processing and all the common things that are needed nowadays. We talk about the most stupid and elementary stuff, and there are still bugs. And things don't change, there are even more bugs. I'm very sorry to say it, but I think they don't put enough efforts in it and we will be soon developing in other languages. p.s. Please cut the crap about "it is free, do not whine". Yeah sure, Adobe doesn't get money from your mobile apps, right? Something good is now getting bad. That's the whole idea, and I don't care if you guys know the best native extension or you have fixed one and used it - this is all non professional as your main goal is to develop apps, not to fix other's crap!
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