Are all Flex SDKs stopped from Adobe?

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May 11, 2020
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I have 2 questions,

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Context: All links to download Flex SDK are removed from Adobe websites.

Question: So does it mean we also should stop using it which we had downloaded earlier from Adobe website?

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Context: We use Flex SDK 4.6 for building AIR application which interally launchs a local .swf file using below Object tag.

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="Sample.swf" width="100%" height="100%">

We are packaging it into captive runtime bundle using adt command with below option

-target bundle

We are specifically using Flex SDK 4.6 version as it has Flash Player inside SDK, so no need to install Flash Player explicitly on machine.

Question: As Adobe is ending support for Browser Flash Player in Dec 2020, Can we still go ahead and use Flash Player present inside Flex SDK 4.6 by using Captive Runtime Bundle option after Dec 2020?

PS : I have checked Flex SDK provided from Harman it doesn't have Flash Player inside it. So even if we do Captive Runtime Bundle it needs us to install Flash Player explicitly which we dont want to do.

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adityazagade1

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Okay, So after realising that the sdk links were no longer present, I did some research and following is my observation.

1. Adobe air sdk is available to download. However they require your project to be pure actionscript.

2. Adobe flex was donated to Apache flex. I was able to compile my code using Apache Flex 4.16.1. You should be able to do that. Also apache flex is open source.

3. I struggled to get apache flex sdk setup. I used the installer to get sdk. Then post apache flex sdk installation, I referred to its readme file's --> 'Using the Binary Distribution' Section and setup sdk properly.

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adityazagade1

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vishwanath119,

I also saw that the flex sdk links are taken down and only adobe air sdk links are there. What have you guys decided ?

I am able to compile my code with flex 4.6 sdk but not with latest air sdk.