Is AIR for Blackberry 10 possible/worth it?

Question

Has anyone developed for BB10 with Flash Professional?

How did you build the app?

Did you make it as an Android app and submit it?

Did it get many downloads? Was it worth doing?

What device did you test it on?

Will there be a propper AIR for Blackberry added to the publishing settings of Flash Pro in the future?

Innovatology · Answer

AIR is installed natively on BB10 and PlayBook, although it is still AIR 3.1 (i.e. no Stage3D).

Flash Builder and FDT are the preferred ways of developing, though it should be possible with Flash Pro if you know what you're doing. Better to try with FB or FDT first though, as they provide on-device debugging and excellent integration for packaging and deploying your apps. Otherwise you'll be messing around with the command line.

As BB10 has a native AIR runtime preinstalled, there is no point developing it as an AIR for Android app. In fact, it's impossible.

It is certainly worth it.

We use Dev Alpha's, PlayBooks and Z10's to test our BB apps.

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