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leop66344762
Inspiring
December 1, 2016
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AIR Windows 64bit version

  • December 1, 2016
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I would like to know the current state of development of the 64bit Windows version of AIR.

This was mentioned over 1 year ago, and then planned for release 23, and we are now in the middle of 24 beta and there is no mention of it.

In multiple occasions I expressed my interest in testing ANY version of it, since I have a LIVE project, with customers who NEED more than 1GB of memory.

Luckly, the small percentage of MacOSX customers are happy, since 64bit has been available for more than 1 year for them.

Can you please provide any insight on the matter?

Regards

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    janfw9969106
    Inspiring
    June 19, 2017

    Any update on the 64bit Version (or maybe a new BETA Update)?

    We have made very good experience regarding performance of the 64Bit version, however we cannot use the version since the AIR 25 BETA SDK, which is used for the 64Bit Beta, has the SecureSocket bug (https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/AIR-4198301) introduced, which got fixed later for stable release.

    Danik112
    Danik112
    Participant
    November 22, 2017

    There's now a new 64 bit beta available!

    Download Adobe AIR 28 Beta - Adobe Labs

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      veggieman25
      Inspiring
      November 29, 2017

      Away3d does not seem to be working with adobe air 28 64 bit. I do not get any crash errors just the 3d does not load (working in 32 bit mode).

      UPDATE: Got it working

      Rohit Guglani
      Adobe Employee
      Rohit Guglani
      Adobe Employee
      February 22, 2017

      Hello Everyone,

      Thanks for showing your interest in AIR Windows 64 Bit work. We have posted today the AIR Windows 64 bit build on our beta page Download Adobe AIR 25 Beta - Adobe Labs . We would like you to try this out and share your feedback/issues.

      Regards,
      RohitAdobe AIR Team

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        hferreira.80@gmail.com
        Inspiring
        February 22, 2017

        Awesome news

        This improvement is highly anticipated !

        It's a pitty that share runtime is not supported but there is the Captiva alternative

        I will test and if the performance difference is notable on my App, I will re-think to change from shared runtime to captiva option !

        It's possible to release a Flex SDK ready option to make the things easier from Flex Devs ?

        Thank you very much for the amazing news !

        daianc20000010
        daianc20000010
        Participating Frequently
        February 20, 2017

        I have been waiting for this "feature" for over two years now. I'm actually working on two complex projects and on both I have serious memory limitations on about 1GB ram. What's the point of developing cross-platform applications with air, it makes no sense, on windows it craps out.

        I'm starting to believe they don't give a crap about desktops any more, especially windows ones. I'm already starting to look for alternatives for porting, I suggest you do the same. It's sad because I really like as3 and air.

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        hferreira.80@gmail.com
        Inspiring
        February 20, 2017

        Check this: AIR 64-Bit on Windows - Testers needed « Starling Forum

          daianc20000010
          daianc20000010
          Participating Frequently
          February 20, 2017

          This is actually good news. Thanks for the link, I'll try to jump on board, I hope they release this thing as soon as possible.

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          DanStarlight
          Known Participant
          January 15, 2017

          Have Adobe ever responded to this feature request?  Is it a high priority?

          What about 64 bit on Android?

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          DanStarlight
          Known Participant
          January 6, 2017

          Is a PC version of 64 bit AIR too difficult to create, or is it just not a high priority?

          What about Android?

          All I want to know is if I can promise my clients that in the near future their apps will have far more power.

          leop66344762
          leop66344762Author
          Inspiring
          January 6, 2017

          I hope its just a matter of time.
          If I got the sequence of events right.... Windows 10 came out right when they wanted to do Windows 64bit. and that posed a problem, because of the Universal Windows apps which are not exactly the same as a regular app.

          Hope to hear the good news soon.I have about 5 years of work that will either grow, or go to trash based on this issue.

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          elzone
          Participant
          January 4, 2017

          Adobe, we nned this version of AIR. Don't forget about us. So we could move forward with our projects.

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          DanStarlight
          Known Participant
          December 27, 2016

          I built a video editing engine with extremely high memory requirements where up to 16 videos play at once.  On my PC I was hitting the 90% CPU usage and decided to try my luck with the 64 bit version on Mac.  I was amazed to see the CPU peak at 20%.

          I look forward to every update for AIR, but this was a real game changer for me.  To put it simply I suddenly had proof that AIR was better than any other engine out there.

          Keep updating - that's all I want to say.

          Colin Holgate
          Colin Holgate
          Inspiring
          December 27, 2016

          Sometimes it's the technology and not the platform. It would be interesting to try your test on a PC that was using QuickTime.

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          DanStarlight
          Known Participant
          December 29, 2016

          As far as I can tell the cause of the drastic improvement is caused by the app running in 64 bit.

          QuickTime didn't change anything.

          Beyond this on PC whenever the memory usage passes 1GByte the application crashes.  On Mac everything runs smooth.

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            quigemega
            Participant
            December 9, 2016

            Me too!!! we need to know the planning! Thanks!!!

              leop66344762
              leop66344762Author
              Inspiring
              December 12, 2016

              For some reason, this looks like those kind of questions that one should not be asking...because no one from Adobe is responding to it. not by forum, not by mail... just silence.

              Makes me wonder if its any worth to continue developing in AIR....

              Funny that I dropped AIR in favor of React Native for an App I just started... They started developing it 7 years after AIR was first release as "Apollo"... and funny how there are a LOT of things AIR did back then, that they are getting to do it now and claiming "the newest big thing"... I wonder how Adobe lost 7 years of lead in a market where they used to be the only ones....

              anyhow.... can you tell me how is your project going and what is your focus?

              regards,

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                quigemega
                Participant
                December 12, 2016

                I've been asking same question to the adobe team from more than one year ago. No one responds me... I can not understand why...!!!

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