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Winalik
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July 28, 2020
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Adobe AIR applications won't work on Big Sur Beta

  • July 28, 2020
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Hello there,

Tested several AIR applications targetting native MacOS on Big Sur Beta 2 & 3, and all of them won't displays content, the only thing visible is the title bar. I reported this issue to Apple support and waiting for a reply ... or a fix.

 

Event, official AIR runtime installation is affected by this critical issue.
Hope we will have a fix before Apple releases his new OS.

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    Omar5FF5
    Participant
    February 26, 2021

    Have they came out with a fix for this yet? Its Feb 25th 2021.... still no word.

    ISI-DWADE
    ISI-DWADE
    Participant
    February 26, 2021

    Ours ran under Big Sur 11.1...

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    Rui Cruz - LFM
    Participating Frequently
    December 10, 2020

    I can confirm that our app compiled with Flex 4.16.1 and Air 32.0 (64bit) runs on Big Sur M1 after update to 11.0.1

    ISI-DWADE
    ISI-DWADE
    Participant
    January 18, 2021

    Did you need to compile it using Big Sur? I have an app compiled on 10.13.6 and I get the MenuBar only issue.

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    johnwuapps
    Participating Frequently
    November 24, 2020

    I am running the Big Sur release, and it looks like AIR applications run fine expect

    flash.media.Camera.names returns nothing when there are webcams connected to the computer. I tried using the AIR 33.1 with the same result

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    Niles5CEF
    Participant
    November 29, 2020

    Were you able to get this resolved?

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    johnwuapps
    Participating Frequently
    November 29, 2020

    No. There needs to be an update for Adobe AIR to fix. See

    https://github.com/Gamua/Adobe-Runtime-Support/issues/532

    And up vote the bug:

    https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/AIR-4198930

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    Martin5C80
    Participant
    September 24, 2020

    Hi, any update on this issue? Anybody? Big Sur is officially out and Adobe AIR apps are all broken, not showing the content of its window. Not a word on HARMAN's release notes for latest SDKs. 

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    Jez5D99
    Participant
    September 25, 2020

    Like Winalik. Latest Harman SDK (33.1.1) and 64 bit java and ours fired up.

    <sigh of relief>

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    Niles5CEF
    Participant
    December 4, 2020

    Definitely not fixed. I'm using macOS 11.0.1 and there are currently no updates available in Software Update. Yet Klok2 starts but does not display.

     

    I went to the Adobe Air site to download the latest version and the web site reported:

    • Your operating system does not support the latest version of Adobe AIR. Please refer to the current minimum system requirements and the AIR Archive for older versions of AIR.

    Where the system requirements indicates:

    • Mac OS X v10.10 and above 
    • AIR SDK Development supports Mac OS 10.12 and above

     

    So who knows if "Mac OS X" means not macOS 11 and they're just sloppy with the old "OS X" name.


    SOLUTION:

     

    I reached out to tech support for my software that uses Adobe Air; they have a solution that got Adobe Air to work on Big Sur:

     

    1. Select Go in menu bar
    2. Click Go to Folder

    3. Type or copy/paste this: /Library/Frameworks

    Change your view view in Finder to Column View for the next step (Should be the first icon along the top of your finder window next to the folder name; if you're in icon view (default), it'll look like four squares)

    4. Right-click or Control+click on the Frameworks folder
    Important: Control+click on the "Frameworks" folder and not the "Adobe AIR.framework" folder. We have found it helps to change your Finder view to display in columns.
    5. Click on "New Terminal at Folder"

    6. In the terminal window, type or copy/paste the following exactly (including quotations) after the $ and then hit Return/Enter: sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "Adobe AIR.framework"

    7. Enter your computer password and hit Return/Enter. Please note: Your password may be invisible as you type it.

    You should now be able to install/run Adobe Air

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      Jez5D99
      Participant
      September 17, 2020

      we too have this issue. I'm amazed there isn't a lot more, very worried, devs talking about this.

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      kirchevsky
      Participant
      September 5, 2020

      I have the same issue. 

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      vertikaldesign
      Participant
      August 19, 2020

      I am having the exact same issue.  I upgraded to the Big Sur beta and now an Adobe Air application I use for work/business does not display its contents.  I hope Adobe can fix this, soon!

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      WinalikAuthor
      Participant
      August 19, 2020

      What Flex & AIR SDK versions are you unsing ?

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