Nobody is arguing the merits of AIR, I'm arguing the commitment of Adobe and essentially stating Adobe is committed to AIR like it has been committed to Flash with the result we now know. ... View more

Sure, ridiculous, blindfolded ... but at the same time developers are leaving that platform and the community is shrinking year after year ... FYI, beside TvOS/AndroidTV, those are NOT new supported platforms, new supported platform would be Windows 10 Store publishing for example, won't happen. Tell me, why is Jet brains creating specific IDEs for all major technology out there EXCEPT Flash/AIR? ... View more

What I mean is anyone can see the incoming link using a network tracker like findler for example. The link is exposed and the user can follow it, see the pdf online and print as many pages as he wants. Just trying to understand that this is not what you are trying to prevent but more like a design requirement. ... View more

Just to make sure, you are aware that even if this problem is fixed the user would still be able to see the link and go to that online location to print the PDF? In other words that little popup only makes it easier to do all that but not having that popup won't prevent it anyway. ... View more

I used to work that way too long ago but company requirements and platform publishing requirements made it not viable anymore. I had to move to a more development friendly environment which was Flash Builder at the time. The amount of time I save by working with a true IDE is simply enormous, Animate CC cannot offer that. I manage a code base of 10s of thousands a classes and Animate CC is just not made for that. ... View more

Well I agree 100%, AIR potential is enormous but it needs true commitment from Adobe and a real dedicated IDE, without that it's condemned to slowly fade away just like Flash did. ... View more

What people use Animate CC for only Adobe knows but you can be sure they are watching those analytics closely. For sure it's less scary than Flash Builder for beginners that want to tackle developing and AIR publishing. But overall are those (AIR users) numbers growing, shrinking, or staying the same? What could be an educated guess? Only Adobe knows for sure but I've seen all those AS related popular forums close one by one and the ones that are still up don't have a comparable activity to other popular tech forums for many other languages/tech. You are correct open sourcing is not a guaranty of success in any way but if given to the Apache foundation (for example) chances will be higher and new features can be produced very fast depending on the technology success (more success = more collaborators) ... View more

fear mongering people? Let's be serious, if you rationally consider Adobe historical handle on Flash tech and the actual situation of AIR which is: - dev teams reduced - low budget - new platform won't be supported (official) - Adobe DOES NOT make money with AIR - Adobe DOES NOT sell any AIR related software (except Flash Builder) - Flash Builder is stuck at 4.7 and will never go any higher. - (most important) fewer and fewer developer using that tech (AIR community is not growing, it's shrinking) Of course they have a roadmap, AIR has still a good 5 years to go and maybe more who knows, but if nothing else changes AIR will become irrelevant as a cross platform tech at some point, any rational person can see that. I love AIR and I even love Flash but I see what Adobe is doing with it and it's not good, as many have already said here, open sourcing is the only thing that can save both in the long term, but even that Adobe won't do. ... View more

I would still like to see the figures (please post a link) of AIR being the source of 10% itune app store submissions. You claimed it and that does seem very high to me but I really would like to check that out (can't find anything coming even remotely close to those figures on Google) ... View more

Nothing pessimistic about my view, if anything it's historically based on what Adobe has done. Adobe never bought Macromedia for its Flash technology, it inherited it and had to deal with it and it did just that until they decided to pull the plug on AS NEXT, then I was also called pessimistic when I said like many that Flash will not survive Adobe lack of commitment and it turns out I was right. Adobe inherited most of the Apollo team as well and dedicated huge resources to it for years, then they reduced the dev team by 95% and announced they will never support Windows Store publishing (and reading between the lines any other new platform coming out). Yeah sure I could be wrong this time even though I've been right every single time before about Adobe decisions and their consequences but then let me ask you this: How bright is the future of a cross platform technology that makes it clear it will never support any new platform coming out? All I'm saying really is as a company or as an individual, don't keep all your eggs in the same basket and start prepare for a future where Adobe pulls the plug on AIR. ... View more

I'm getting multiple questions concerning code/project conversion and I'm giving some pointers, sorry if that doesn't fit your standard ... Code/project conversion IS on topic of AIR roadmap since after the end of Flash it will be difficult (but not impossible) for AIR to survive much longer so conversion of code is of great interest even in this thread. ... View more

Not only what you say is false but is also completely irrelevant to the subject of my post (code/project conversion). Stay on topic or don't reply please or if you really need to post irrelevant reply at least post a recipe or something useful. ... View more

No company will ever create that type of software for just one reason: Lack of Adobe commitment to the platform. If Adobe was committed to Flash or AIR a company like Jet Brains would have an IDE for it by now as they have for every single technology where community/authors are committed. ... View more

Little note on converting existing AS3 code base to another technology. If your code base follows the industry standard recommended design patterns (like MVC for example) then the conversion will be fairly easy (the M and C should level nicely while the V will require most work) but if your code base does not follow any industry standard patterns then the conversion will be difficult at best or even simply impossible. ... View more

I personally prefer the "play and save" approach as I do for all my Android apps. In that case that will have to be an AIR app (projector cannot do that). In a nutshell: Your app plays the content (from online source) AND save it locally so it plays it locally the second time. implementation: 1. App look for content to play locally, content is there > 4. content is not there > 2 2. Play content from online link > 3 3. Save played content locally. 4. play local content ... View more

If you stick with AIR then you won't be able to deliver your product on a browser after 2020. If this will never be a problem ever then AIR can probably suit your needs to a few more years. con: Delivering a AIR Flex project on mobile device will not be as easy as you think for 2 main reason: performance and touch screen capture. pro: Flex components are easily customizable, the outdated look you are talking about can be changed by creating custom looks from the existing components. con: Starling and Feather DO NOT adapt to existing framework and Flex is certainly out of the question. What that means is, you won't be able to switch to Starling/Feather WITHOUT reworking/changing completely your entire code base. Feather/Starling authors are paid by Adobe to maintain their frameworks. Those frameworks unfortunately do not integrate/work very well with other frameworks including the stock flash classes. AIR is not another technology than Flex, when you create a Flex project you can choose between running on web (flash) or on desktop (AIR) and you end up with the exact same classes anyway cos it's the same thing. With AIR you get the ability to export for different OS as executable as that's it so don't view AIR as something different than your Flex project, it's not. ... View more

AIRI is an unsigned (no certificate) AIR file, as such it cannot be deployed as executable on a computer. NewB0rn is referring to native app compilation which requires captive runtime and export with native app extension (eg. .exe), this also allows for deeper access to OS features (eg. NativeProcess) ... View more

You should get that type of dialog box for any app you install on your computer, the adobe dialog box is just looking different that's all but it's not asking for anything other apps don't require too. Those dialog boxes don't ask to access everything on the computer, that's a misconception. Compiling AIR apps with captive runtime as native apps is NOT a way to avoid those permission access confirmation boxes contrary to what newB0rn claims. If apps (AIR or not) can be installed on your computer without dialog box permission confirmations then so can viruses. ... View more

10% seems high but I take your words for it. Where did you find those figures? ... View more

Would be ideal sure, is this really what's gonna happen? Let me answer with a question: Did Adobe ever took a decision or made a move that would ensure the future of Flash technology? ... View more

Animation and video? For what purpose? (if not to run in a browser in what platform is this going to run?) As for AIR yeah maybe but developing flash technology just for AIR doesn't sound like something Adobe is gonna want to do. We'll see after 2020 but Adobe as never once surprised me .... ... View more

Starling and feather have never been professional frameworks, the 2 authors (payed by Adobe) have decided to target beginners instead of professionals for their audience forcing people like me to develop their own (the performance of Starling is just awful and without mentioning its design). The Flash community has never been known for its willingness to support open source, I used to be for years a very active open source contributor (and actionscript.org super moderator) with framework, apps, tools, etc ... But even with thousands of people using my stuff constantly at the most I got less than a dozen click the "donate" button and this along a period of 6 years. I had a SoundManager framework, the best you could ever find out there, downloaded 80k times and got 3 donations for it totaling $7 .... Flash people just don't want to pay a cent for anything and this is the main reason so many talented developers stop providing/helping with open source projects. The truth is, it's hard to find out there a community that is LESS whiling to support open source. The Flash community is cheap as hell and they got the open source projects and the future they deserve. ... View more

Within your Typescript code you can use whatever you want. I target canvas and use PIXIJS for example so no createJS involved (all my projects run on canvas and canvas only) but if you use createJS then you already have a similar conversion setup in place just much more limited. ... View more

Of course the announcement has direct bearing on AIR, the Flash player is the backbone of AIR, the "engine" if you will. AIR will continue to develop its own features within its own scope but it will do it based around a core engine (FP) that will never evolve anymore. After 2020 the AIR platform by definition will have a expiration date, period and no amount of wishful thinking will change that. ... View more

Of course, my tool converts code and code only (from AS3 to Typescript) so this is not the problem, the problem is whether you have a Typescript implementation of NetConnection, NetStream, etc ... I had to develop a Typescript framework to mirror the flash package classes that are referenced. For example all flash display list classes are based on PIXIJS (by composition so this can be switched), my flash sound package is an implementation of the AudioAPI, etc ... ... View more

No my tool converts the code from actionscript3 to Typescript and that's all it does. Because the assets and asset management is done via a ContextResource framework (also internally developed) that framework also converts perfectly to Typescript (same assets are used in both AS3 and Typescript). The conversion is direct and project compiles immediately in Typescript and runs flawlessly in browser, both output (flash/html5) are visually indistinguishable from each other. ... View more

Do you make any use of cacheAsBitmap or related properties? These can produce this kind of issues when used with wrong rendering target. ... View more

You are kidding yourself, AIR is coasting and has been for years, no windows store packaging available remember? AIR will simply not support any new platform, they will update the currently supported ones until .... until ... AIR is irrelevant. AIR is simply treated like Flash has been by Adobe, support it, update it, don't make anything new and wait until it's safe to pull the plug. Maybe you are too young to remember but when Adobe bought Macromedia they inherited the publication of FP9 and the preparation of FP10 (quickly fixed to FP11) and since FP11 what else did Adobe do for Flash? That's right zip, nothing. ... View more

All my Flash web based games (and code base) have been converted to typescript and run on canvas. I developed a specific tool to make the conversion (one month work). Now I can make a new Flash game, click a button and get my typescript project, compile and get my HTML5 game running immediately. My point is that this is doable depending on how your code base was build to start with. ... View more

It's a private tool developed for my needs and my company, like I said if there's interest expressed I could develop a public version, we'll see. ... View more