I switched from flash builder to Intellij IDEA when I saw that Daniel, creator of starling, had done so. ... View more

There will be an AIR 33, just from a different company. If AIR was dead, there would be no AIR 33, it would just end. It's not dead yet . Maybe mostly dead. But not all dead. IMHO not quite time to look through the pockets for loose change yet. Now if HARMAN kills it... then yeah, it'll be all the way dead. also... yeah, I don't know why Adobe seemed so hostile to AIR over the years, never advertising it, treating it like the redheaded bastard stepchild... Regardless of the death of the flash browser plugin, I think Adobe's to blame for the current state of AIR not being well-known at all. It could easily live on as an app-creation technology, you could even rename flash player to something less hated, but adobe seemed determined to neglect it to death. Here's hoping HARMAN does better with it, it's in their hands now. ... View more

you could of course be right, time will tell. It could be the equivalent of putting it out to pasture, or it could be like when macromedia sold flash to adobe years ago (macromedia ceased supporting flash at that point but didn't "abandon" it, wouldn't you say?). In the end, we're all just speculating, and it's really nice having Andrew here to say something, ANYthing, from the inside, it's been awhile since we've had any communication at all from the people who actually know stuff about what's going on. I agree with ASWC that marketing is super important if you actually want the thing to live on. Adobe didn't market AIR even in its heyday, for some reason this great crossplatform technology stayed pretty hidden and unknown to anyone outside the developer community. I think a lot of developer angst over the years has come from feeling like the bastard stepchildren of Adobe's ecosystem, a great technology that no one's using cuz no one's ever heard of won't go anywhere, and now time and momentum are against you, as with adobe's lack of communication, the passionate dev community has been dwindling, and even the diehards are starting to go elsewhere. For me professionally, I am glad my legacy AIR mobile games will live on, but we're probably going to port most of them to HTML5/cordova (and some are already underway or done). For me personally, I'll be cautiously watching this space to see if my unreleased projects warrant finishing and releasing under AIR or migration to something else. Time will tell. ... View more

Again, and I'll drop it after this, because I have no desire to argue further.... My opinion is they're handing it off, not abandoning it - if they were abandoning it, they'd shut it down and not hand it off to anyone. of course they're not going to provide support for something that is now someone else's job to provide support for. If you sold something to your friend, and then I accused you of "abandoning" it because you no longer support it.... that wouldn't make any sense. Of course HARMAN might just turn around and shut it down / abandon it, and that's obviously your opinion, which you're entitled to, and I never said I wasn't worried.... but I'm just providing a counter opinion to your constant refrain of "I'M RIGHT AND I TOLD YOU SO". ... View more

I'm not 100% convinced that transferring AIR to HARMAN is adobe "abandoning" it. Shutting it down completely would be abandoning it. HARMAN could of course ride it into oblivion, but we don't know that yet. on the other hand, how is Apache Flex doing since Apache took over? (I don't use flex, so I'm not very knowledgeable about that community) ... View more

Most tech articles I saw online (the few that commented on this) about this noticed Adobe is pulling the plug dead cold on AIR and HARMAN won't put a big team on it and is only gonna try to cash out on the dead tech for a few years I see the rumor mill is alive and well still, churning out articles despite no actual inner knowledge of negotiations etc... yes, of course it could go either way, but only time will tell. ... View more

voted. ... View more

In that case, I don't know, as all my apps are set to a minimum version of 9.0. ... View more

I don't 100% remember when this happened, but AIR's minimum iOS requirement is iOS 9, and has been for a little while now: Tech specs and system requirements | Adobe AIR ... View more

This is a little late, but I wanted to add just in case anyone else sees this: Since adhoc builds are broken in AIR SDK 29.0.0.122, I tried building with AIR SDK 29.0.0.112 for adhoc testing. Building failed with I errors for all my ANEs saying they must be built with universal binaries. "ANElibname1.a, ANELibname2.a are required to have universal iOS libraries. Please contact the ANE developer(s) to get the same." I forgot that this was solved back in AIR 16, where all ANEs had to support both 32- and 64-bit. I wasted a lot of time before I figured out how to use the file command on macOS terminal to figure out that all my ANEs have been universal binary for a long time. I've gone back to AIR 28 (which also uses iOS 11 SDK) from the archived downloads page, and have been able to successfully build adhoc versions for testing. Now to add Assets.car and work towards a store submission, which as far as I understand I have to use AIR SDK 29.0.0.122 to build in order to avoid the "use of non-public API" bug. ... View more

either. Just curious your strategy, I can work out the technical details. ... View more

I'm interested ... View more

Interesting that the tech specs linked from the PDF release notes still mentions iOS 9 as the minimum supported iOS version. does this change contradict that? Tech specs and system requirements | Adobe AIR ... View more

what IDE? the file needs to end up in the base directory of your app after publishing. this can be done by putting it in a folder that is marked for inclusion in the app by your IDE, typically an asset folder. ... View more

you have to have an actionscript class linked to the symbol in the library, not an instance name, in order to be able to instantiate a symbol with code. ... View more

ugh, that's so frustrating. I got no helpful info, just sympathy. I've seen more than my fair share of ridiculous app store rejections where I work. ... View more

a double for loop with a new statement inside would do it. ... View more

this is a super old thread, but I'll oblige you. How to update AIR SDK for Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 ... View more

you told us what it doesn't do. what DOES it do? how does it mess up? screenshot? ... View more

ah, sorry, wish I could be of more help ... View more

there is a scout mobile app that I had to put on my iphone to be able to debug it with scout. This was a year or two ago though, so YMMV ... View more

I'm sorry, I haven't used FlashDevelop's memory profiler, only Scout. I may not be much help.     ... View more

I'm not sure there's any tool out there that can automatically detect a memory leak. The definition of what counts as a "memory leak" or not for your particular app depends a lot on the situation, the expected memory usage of your app, etc. Basically if you're seeing memory usage spiral out of control past what you think your app should be using, that's possibly a memory leak. ... View more

if you compile your swf with telemetry enabled (don't remember the exact name of the option atm, sorry), scout can show you every object allocation in your swf, from the time you press scout's record button on. ... View more

why are you using AIR namespace 20.0? Shouldn't it be 27.0 for AIR SDK 27? Also, the camera roll/camera permissions were added in AIR 24, IIRC ... View more

I'm also a remote contractor, I feel your pain. ... View more

I understand and sympathize, I read your post. I feel your pain. I used to develop AIR apps for iOS on windows too until I switched to mac because it was easier to jump through Apple's hoops. In my case, I had to develop ANEs and submit to the app store, so I needed Xcode and application loader. This is apparently Apple's requirement for iOS 11, not Adobe's. Hopefully Adobe will figure out how to generate an Assets.car without Xcode, until then, I don't know what to tell you. ... View more

While you can build an IPA on windows, you do need a Mac to run Application Loader and submit apps to the app store. Until someone figures out how to create an Assets.car without Xcode, it looks like a Mac might be needed now for more than just that final submission. ... View more