Locked by Moderator, Not on subject anymore,AIR Roadmap Update

There is no warranty that  any technology will be available as long as you want it. On my experience do it by yourself paradigm make more and more sense. Browsers nothing but sand box where big corporations let you play, you always be restricted and bumped  on cross browser/versions compatibility. Only C/C++ level gives you true freedom. If you have option use app or html version of app, what would you choose? I don't think it will be some kind magical moment in time when html app suddenly became better then native apps.

Did few experiments, trying to understand if it even possible archive the same level using open sourced libraries:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codeservice.app.luastudio

https://appsto.re/ca/x92nfb.i

Animate CC has the best integration of art, animation, and code of all platforms I ever used and I heard of.

There should be a way of creating AIR apps powered by Starling, Feathers, and any other framework graphically inside of the IDE.

There are tons of pure code solutions but there isn't a platform that allows the user to start a project really from the scratch, from the art to the final developed product, in such an easy workflow like Animate.

For those talking about Vector rendering for Stage3d / Starling - this may be of interest

Termite – a vector renderer for stage3d (and possibly other targets) « flashing in public

The author is looking for feedback and to measure interest. I personally think it looks extremely impressive.

On the original post from Chris Campbell... I think there are some great looking features in the pipeline.

Out of interest what are people ranking as #1 on the additional survey offered. I thought "OpenGL Enhancements like Access Stage3D textures directly from an ANE, Update to Open GL ES 6+, Ability to use OpenGL instead of DirectX" sounded intriguing.

Regarding asking for 10 year guarantees. Is anyone able to say any alternative tech will 100% be around and relevant in 10years?

Take your pick. Drop them a line on their support forum asking them to put in writing a binding guarantee they will be around in 10 years.

This is the tech industry we are talking about.

What I read in the original post is that the EOL for Flash player is 2020 and the announcement had no bearing on AIR. And I was happy with that.

Good news! Thanks!

Adobe AIR is by far the best available tool for cross platform development.

I hope, that Adobe will continue to move forward with this technology.

I think however, it could be a bit more present in the communication of Adobe, so that people know, that it is there and available.

It's too good to be missed...

That is some great news. But from a developer point of view we would like to see some other stuff:

- Better support and bug tracking system. Maybe forum anf bugbase could be under one roof to facilitate issues.

- Fix old Air bugs ( issues with camera, keyboard, text , text input and webviews on mobile devices). Probably also make stagevideo work with rtmp across mobile devices. Other old issues are video in gpu mode does not always work.

- Ability to mix and match renderers dynamically and not just cpu/gpu/direct mode. example stage3d is always behind native display list no matter what so some edge cases like native video + starling on top does not work.

Thanks

Will Adobe be releasing a official statement about the longevity of AIR past 2020? I do not want to sound mean, but we really need more than a forum post to chart our course forward with our products that drive our revenue. 2.5 years is not much time in enterprise solution development time.

Without Flash air will be one of many cross platform development tools. Check http://haxe.org and based on it http://www.openfl.org/​ for example. Haxe already has html/js output format and many more on top of it. Now it will be really hard for Air take leading place. Sad Adobe dint look at option make their own browser optimized for flash. Good luck!

In recent years I have seen the situation where Adobe Air is not selected as a development application for smartphones in Japan in the near position. In 3d it is outstripped to Unity, in 2D animation SPINE and live2d are overwhelmed with mesh processing function, there is no way to ask Ane's functional extension still to ask a separate vendor or some rare engineer, the fundamental native game Walls such as development have not been solved. If Adobe wanted to revive Air as an application development platform and regain its former glory, we should understand how we are unable to provide the features that the market requires with Air. I have been developing applications with Air for many years and have been exploring the possibilities but are coming to the limit. We urgently recommend learning from the SPINE and live 2d the image modifying function on the timeline by the mesh and installing the ane's open market to simplify cooperation with native. Too much, Adobe is negligently neglecting the development of Air. In this way AnimeteCC will share the same fate as the flash player. And at that time, Adobe really needs to apologize for buying macromedia. I never want such a future, and you also want to be such a thing.

Great news

• Support for 64-bit AIR – Windows Captive Only
  • Does this also boost the max runtime memory for 2G upwards?
• DirectX11 support for AIR desktop
  • does this make playback for 4k video's possible?
• Improved monitor and resolution settings for AIR Desktop
  • Does this come with support for the % scaling on the resolution ?

Ans last but not least, any news on multitouch behaviour in windows 10?

any news on this?

multitouch is very slow and touchpoint stack up in windows 10, so [please address this issue also

thanx

Chris and all. I really truly hope that this change will allow more resources/focus on AIR for desktop and mobile. I still believe AIR is the BEST way to produce apps, games, and utilities across operating systems. Thank you for sharing this information.