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joshstrike
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June 6, 2020
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Will Adobe continue to support Flash Builder 4.7 ?

  • June 6, 2020
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A few years ago, I built a logistics system for a mid-sized business. The mobile client app is built in AIR. The app is in critical daily use by about 75 employees in the company's facilities. I only just found out about AIR being passed to HARMAN.

 

As long as I can continue to maintain the app with minor updates, it's fine. At this point I'm still compiling it with the SDK I originally used, v23. I don't need to move to 64 bit since this app is only distributed as private APKs on company android devices, not through the Play Store.

 

My main concern is that Adobe would remove Flash Builder 4.7 from the CC library or stop supporting it. I would have no way to re-compile the app. In fact, Flash Builder is the only reason I subscribe to CC.

 

What are Adobe's plans for maintaining Flash Builder after 2020?

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    Douglas McCarroll
    Douglas McCarroll
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    June 7, 2020

    Hi joshstrike,

    Based on this thread ...

    http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Flash-Builder-4-7-OSX-td18107.html

    ... I'd say "don't count on Flash Builder continueing to be a viable option", but as the thread points out, one can also use Intellij and VSCode as IDEs. I've been using IntelliJ for years. Also, I have the impression that one can compile AIR apps from the command line, though I have no personal experience with this.

    Douglas

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    joshstrikeAuthor
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    June 7, 2020

    Thank you. I'll look into that. I didn't realize FlashBuilder already doesn't work with Catalina!

     

    I'd still like to hear from Adobe if they have any plans to maintain FlashBuilder. Also, what about Scout CC? It doesn't seem like it would be so difficult to just update these to be 64-bit.

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