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Anonymous
May 6, 2011
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Android - must install adobe air?

  • May 6, 2011
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Hi, in the previous version of AIR - in order to run AIR apps on android you had to install Adobe AIR from the market, separately, which sucked

is this still the case in 2.6? anyone found a way to bundle your apk with the air so the user doesnt need to install 2 things?

this is really non professional if u ask me

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boat5
Inspiring
May 6, 2011

the experience is not bad, but people do still complain about in ghe marketplace comments for air apps

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Anonymous
May 7, 2011

They complain because it installs on a phone memory and takes 16MB of precious space. It would be great if AIR was preinstalled on devices already... People wouldn't even now about AIR existance and will enjoy our great apps

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
May 7, 2011

I'm confused about Android users' concerns about memory. I let a friend try an iOS app I had done, as an Android build, and it went ok, but she commented on how Android users would never buy the app because it was 32 MB. On iPhone and iPad it's not unusual to have apps that are hundreds of megabytes, but on Android users seem to run out of memory in no time.

Are there two type of memory on Android? Like, say 16 GB for apps to be stored, but a smaller amount of memory where they all have to live while actually running? That could account for why they run out of memory.

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
May 6, 2011

You still can't bundle, but AIR 2.6 has been in the marketplace for a while now, if someone has used any AIR based apps in the past, they probably have updated AIR already. If a user downloads your app and it's the first AIR app they've ever downloaded, then the runtime is also downloaded, automatically I believe. Is the experience really bad?

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