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What is more suitable to use: Adobe Air or Flash?

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March 24, 2018
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I'm working on a project for wedding celebrations shows (with animations), I have started building it with flash, but later, I found Adobe Air has richer libraries serve me in some things i need like fileStream that used for reading And writing the text files perfectly is i didn't found in flash. Kindly,anybody could advise me what is better I use ( Air or flash)?, with noting I don't use it in internet, only off line , also how the air deal with authoring tools?

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Inspiring

Flash can also publish Projectors, so, you only y need AIR if it has special abilities that a Projector doesn't have.

aymanr86371006Author

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Hi Mr Colin,

I mean project, Not projector

thank you for your replying.

Inspiring

Yes, as Robert says, a Projector is a standalone Flash Player that would include your content.

AIR may be able to read files more easily than a Projector. What file reading will you need to do?

Robert Mc Dowell

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Flash is for the web, AIR is for the web and standalone application with filesystem privileges.

so if you plan to manipulate local files so AIR is the must

aymanr86371006Author

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And what about authoring tools for dealing with AIR ?

Robert Mc Dowell

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Colin meant that your flash SWF can be also read on desktop with Flash projector which is standalone SWF interpreter.

you can develop both Flash and AIR with Animate CC.