Can you explain what's different about 3.7 captive runtime?

[thx1138]

I noticed one of the features for Android is captive runtime. Isn't that already supported? What's changed? Is it just captive runtime is enabled by default? I read somewhere where you say it's supported by more targets but what does that mean?

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

The thing that is new is that you can do debug with captive runtime. Previously you could only debug with the separate AIR runtime APK being installed.

[thx1138]

So behind the scenes when I debugged my app AIR would install the runtime which was an APK along with my app? That would explain some of the strange error messages when I updated Android to 4.2 recently.

[Colin Holgate]

In AIR 3.6 you would either have had to install the AIR 3.6 runtime APK onto your device yourself, or you would have to get it from one of the Android stores. If you did neither of those things, then the app would not run.