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Anonymous
November 24, 2013
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Why did you pick Adobe AIR for development?

  • November 24, 2013
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I'm not an Adobe AIR developer yet. From what I've seen so far, it looks like a decent environment to work in but I'm very early in my research. I'd love to hear from you as to why you picked it. I've got an application in mind and would like it to be able to have the following characteristics:

  • Run on a variety of devices
  • Have access to local hardware, sensors
  • Transmit data on demand either to or from device, choose network and level of compression based on rule set
  • Access a variety of databases including Oracle, SQL*Server, MySQL.
  • Have a strong development community and resources.

Seems AIR has all these things. Would love to know why you picked AIR, other products you looked at and elminated, why you eliminated those?

Thanks so much.

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phonefusionryan
Inspiring
November 25, 2013

I picked AIR because IMO it's the easiest / best performing / cross platform development tool I know. Cordova, PhoneGap, etc can do similar, but they just can't keep up with performance/ease  from AIR.

AIR has updates pretty often too, so things are always looking better.

Using AIR also gives you the ability to use the flash IDE, which currently I 1000% can not comprehend how certain things could be built without it.

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Aaron Beall
Inspiring
November 26, 2013

The reason I use AIR is because it's the closest cross-section of everything I want: a mature and OOP programming language, an expressive and relatively well performing graphics engine, as cross-platform as possible (both desktop and mobile.)

-Aaron

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