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Adobe AIR applications won't work on Big Sur Beta

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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

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

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ISI-DWADE

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Ours ran under Big Sur 11.1...

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Rui Cruz - LFM

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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

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ISI-DWADE

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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

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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

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Were you able to get this resolved?

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johnwuapps

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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

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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

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

<sigh of relief>

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Niles5CEF

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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

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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

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I have the same issue.

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vertikaldesign

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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

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What Flex & AIR SDK versions are you unsing ?

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