Adobe air alternative?

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September 7, 2021
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Hey all,

I want to create a HTML5 canvas dashboard that will read/write information to a local drive.

Currently I have acheived this with some basic html and Node.js, however it looks really bad because i hate creating layouts in HTML5 using DIV's.

Using Animate would be great because I can literally draw anything and have smooth animations etc, however Adobe Air is no longer supported and I have concerns on how to access file system.

Has anyone replaced Adobe air with another framework? I would like to try
NW.JS or Electron, I just want to know if I will run into any issues or if anyone can recommend how they replaced adobe air?

So really my goal is to create a HTML5 Canvas UI using Adobe Animate, being able to access the filesystem and packaging it into an executable, all of which was achievable with Adobe Air, but now its a samsung product.

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kglad

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air is still supported, not by adobe, but by harmon. and i can't think of any reason to use html5 for something you want to be used locally.

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True Adobe Air its still supported by a 3rd party company, but it injects a splash screen and it cost $199 (assuming USD) per year to remove it.

My main issue is just creating a good looking UI with animation, Adobe animate covers that with being able to drag/drop (WYSIWYG) and you can create UI animations easily before even touching any code

I have tried to use Visual studio C# with Winforms or WPF, but it looks pretty bad and I constantly run into problems i.e cant resize tickboxes.

HTML5 did work for getting my basic dashboard going, it allows for better UI customisation thanks to CSS, however it still takes heaps of time playing with the layout.

Adobe Animate just works, takes far less time and visually looks better for small effort, also keeping it HTML allows it to be platform agnostic, it can be a local executable with system access, or web based to run on any browser and any device.

for now though I am intending to run this specific dashboard locally, so it needs to be executable, I will play around later in the week with electronJS, NW.JS or even Apache Cordova just to see if theres any issues, but really I am curious to see if anyone that was using Adobe Air in the past has moved their workflow to another SDK while still using Animate for UI

kglad

Community Expert

if you don't have any security sandbox issues, then use html5.

for mobile apps, i've moved from animate to unity3d.

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