AIR33 Where is it?

I really appreciated the cooperation of Adobe and Harman and I'm really looking forward to it and also seeing AIR maintained well in the future!

+ 1 Vote for Webkit Update

This is cool I suppose.  Too late for any normal sized project.  I'm sure many devs and their companies work faster than me, but most business averse to extreme risk and faith in a company that doesn't communicate have moved on.  Plus, exactly how do you get a version that works for 64bit?  I filled in the form on HARMAN's website--I guess I just have to have faith they'll follow up?  Has anyone heard back from them and gotten binaries to download or is this going to materialize July 31st? 

And a last and very important point :

The people that are still here is because they really believes in AIR ( as a technology ) and I'm sure all of us want to participate / collaborate / help in all this transition and new AIR future. This community is actually not very big but very loyal and compromised, and the most important, experienced and that's very valuable for the platform.

Use the community as a solid base to grow. Take care of them and the'll respond. Ask them and let them help all that they can.

But keep the word "Adobe" as far as you can, we know that perhaps contractually has to be there, but better in the "legal terms" rather than beside AIR logo. They have made "enough" .

Now the fanboys are silent (no surprise) when defends that Adobe at all cost.

For me AIR was in maintenance mode at least the last 2 years:

1. 0 innovation.

2. We had almost to beg like a dog to get Windows 64 bits.

3. Critical issues delayed to the very last moment (Android 64 bits was the icing on top of the cake and motivate me to go away on AIR for Mobile - I didn't start iet but I will, even with the news).

4. Ridiculous excuses from fanboys about that they are not obligated and there is no need a beta version for testing and bla, bla, bla

5. And for last but not least, 0 support on the official adobe air forum.

New name for the last official AIR 32 - Abandon Integrated Runtime

This news where the best we got on the past last years, about AIR.

No ones knows what will happen but at least there is hope.

Having hope means that AIR community suffered for too much time.

Now funboys can say that I need a doctor (I don't care )

I will manage my expectations until see where this will take as.

This can turn into something bad or into something great.

Any way, now AIR have a chance of a future, so this is great news and a surprise.

Developers demanded for a way to pay to have appropriated support, bug fixs and if possible new features, performance improvements when possible and more ways to target AIR (Linux for example that we had in the past).

So. let's see how much most people really wanted to happen and also a reasonable price is key for the success.

Who said, that is normal to provide a software and not to response to his community on a official forum or provide support for Linux for dubious reasons, may see now a new reality (at least that's my felling with the announcement because it's the normal way in the software world).

Hope that with samsung behind we will have a better android experience on AIR.

Perf and stability wise it was a bit weak on android.

I am really hopeful about this. I am certainly willing to pay to support Air development.

Thanks for all the interest and questions! We'll be providing more details before too long and will take these on board. And yes, happily there's a lot of traffic hitting our website and email address, which is nice .. but am off out now for the evening so will have to leave things unattended for a bit!

I think we may want to create another thread about the promising future of Adobe Air. This one is full of useless negativity and obsolete remarks.

We'll hopefully be able to provide more details before too long, but yes, we're looking forward to supporting AIR; Adobe's blog post hopefully explains it, and we'll get an updated website with FAQ up and running shortly. The plan is for AIR SDK to be free to download and use for hobbyists/smaller developers i.e. having a 'free tier', and then charging for larger/commercial use. The charges are then used to fund our development team and so the more people who use it, the more we can develop it! We're aiming to keep charges to low/reasonable levels though, so as not to impact folk too much (i.e. small fees but from lots of companies).

HARMAN (or the part of it within which I work) has been in partnership with Adobe since 2006 working on integration/support of Flash runtimes for mobile/embedded platforms, so we've got a lot of experience - Adobe wouldn't have done this otherwise!

And yes, ANEs need to be updated, we've already internally updated and checked the ADT tools to ensure this works, it should be fairly seamless I hope. We'll be providing a beta release to Distriqt, MyFlashLabs and others as soon as the updated SDK license agreement has passed our legal and financial review process.

This has been a long time in coming but we're excited to see how this works out!

thanks

  Andrew