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What iOS 7 native features aren't supported?

Contributor ,
Jan 09, 2014 Jan 09, 2014

I have a potential client who has expressed some interest in an iOS app I am hoping to pick up with AIR. All of the features they want in the initial version are possible directly from AIR, but they are hesitant to commit to AIR in case they want to add native features somewhere down the road (no ideas on what those features might be, of course).

They have asked me to put together a compelling case for why AIR will allow us to do everything we could do natively. Buying native extensions wouldn't be an issue if it comes to that. Obviously I am aware of any native features that aren't included in AIR but are possible with ANEs (game center, iAd, email, etc). What I'm looking for is a list of any features that are available for native apps but aren't available in AIR or existing ANEs. Has anyone run into such features?

There is actually one feature they discussed possibly including that I'm not sure about. Is it possible to start a YouTube video playing over Airplay from within an AIR app? There's an AS3-Airplay library on Github but it hasn't been updated in two years and sounds unfinished.

Thanks for any help.

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Advocate ,
Jan 13, 2014 Jan 13, 2014

Adobe Air use native extension. For iOS it's an Objective-C cocoa touch static library. You can do everything because Adobe Air it's just UIApplication and it can be delagated. You can put over your Air anything from Native.

If you have any isses - write to milkmans and ask for help. They can develop custom ANE.

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Participant ,
Jan 14, 2014 Jan 14, 2014

You don't need to buy any native extensions. Initially, creating an ANE can be pretty scary and confusing, but after your first, it becomes much easier. There are tons of resources out there such as tutorials, open source ANE's, etc. that make it really easy to make your own. We have developed several in-house ones such as barcode/QR code scanning and Dropbox. So to answer your question, there are no native features that are not supported. That in itself is a very compelling argument to use AIR.

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Jan 26, 2014 Jan 26, 2014
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