Something that would clear this up is a roadmap or something similar. If I'm right then publishing a roadmap is gonna take a very, very long time, if I'm wrong then it should come shortly. ... View more

"pessimism and negativity from the usuals" well of course, it's not like we have been right all along .... lol maybe THIS time we'll get it wrong right? ... View more

It's the end, it's management of dead tech with the expectation of making some money out of it. The advantage for Adobe is that now the plug can be pulled on AIR at anytime since Adobe is not responsible for it anymore. For HARMAN, as long as AIR can make them some money they will run the updates but as soon as the income goes below a certain level then AIR will be out. This can come as soon as next month, you will never get a warning. AIR new feature from HRAMAN? You can always dream .... But dreams don't make apps. ... View more

I agree, at first without much information I said there might still be hope for this technology after all. But after getting more information I really don't see how this is not just the end for AIR and a very quick and fast end on top of it. I thought AIR would likely be dead by 2021, I was wrong it's actually 2019 and I must say I did not see that coming. Adobe gave time for Flash developers to adapt, they gave no time at all for AIR developers. AIR is dead for Adobe in June 2019, done, they give it away and good luck to you all. As for HARMAN, it's not that difficult to read between the lines, they say they had secret "talks" with Adobe for a LONG time but now, June 2019, they got AIR, have no AIR forums, have no AIR roadmap, have no AIR plans or goal announced anywhere and their communication is about one guy coming to the Adobe forums to post here and there, cos you know, they had such a LONG TIME to prepare. In all likeliness, the business model is cashing out on all developers/companies that still have AIR apps in store and need extra time to switch tech. Then when the income is too low HARMAN will just remove AIR from circulation and that will be it. HARMAN is also useful for Adobe since they take all AIR responsibilities away from Adobe, it's sort of a mini musical chair system. Adobe is not supposed to pull the plug on AIR dead cold, but by giving it away to another company, they get rid of any AIR responsibility and commitment, HARMAN on the other hand can pull the plug anytime, even tomorrow, and you'll get no one to complain to or blame. It's good for Adobe since they get rid of something they wanted to get rid of for a long time, it's good for HARMAN since they might make a few bucks with very little risks, and of course that's all bad for all AIR developers that didn't want to listen to people like me for years and CHOOSE to NOT use another technology despite having YEARS to do it. It gives me no pleasure to be right, but I was right about Flash and I was right about AIR and I posted for years on these forums to HELP people make the right decisions. Those who find themselves stuck with this dead technology with no replacement can ONLY blame themselves Today. You had the information, you didn't believe it, it's your OWN fault, all the SIGNS were there and you didn't want to see them. Special mention to zwetan_uk for being so wrong about so many things .... No, AIR is not "fine", everything is not "normal", Adobe is not still "committed" .... ... View more

For anyone interested this is my conversation with my project manager: - A company is taking over AIR and will make us pay for using it? OK, did they announce a commitment to any feature development? - no - Did they announce a clear goal for that technology? - no - Did they publish a roadmap or said they will publish one soon? - Not that I know, I don't think so. - yeah, AIR is over for good, we need to replace all our AIR apps and we need to do it now, this is top priority. ... View more

Don't get me wrong, I'm not sure or convinced you guys taking on AIR will end up nowhere but it's clearly possible, maybe the only likely possibility. What AIR needs is a huge mountain of improvements, not just maintenance, to make AIR relevant again and a real player in cross platform tech. As far as I can tell you guys are gonna get a small team on this which seems to indicate maintenance mode only. Most tech articles I saw online (the few that commented on this) about this noticed Adobe is pulling the plug dead cold on AIR and HARMAN won't put a big team on it and is only gonna try to cash out on the dead tech for a few years and I got to say that sounds like the likely outcome to me as well. Maybe I'm wrong of course and those articles are wrong as well, we'll know soon enough. Anyway this announcement is making us move faster on our replacement of AIR, we still have 8 apps made with AIR with conversion in progress and we are accelerating the development so we can replace all our AIR apps by the end of summer. ... View more

I have said it many times on these forums that Adobe will likely pull the plug on AIR very soon and I have been called many names for saying this. Turns out (once again) I was right all along. Adobe is pulling the plug on AIR starting this month and officially completely abandon AIR next year. They announced they will only provide BASIC update until then, whatever that means. As for HARMAN taking over, when looking deeper into their business, products and roadmaps, it's very unlikely they will develop further the AIR platform at all or at least not in a way that most here would expect. They will adapt it to their needs and products for sure and then provide AIR developers with a commercial SDK version for the sole purpose of being able to publish to supported platforms. The goal is extremely likely to squeeze some money out of it until it's completely dead while they can keep using the technology for their internal needs. Sorry guys, I know this sucks, but HARMAN is not going to save AIR, they are just going to maintain the SDK so you can keep publishing and make you pay for it and that's all there is to it, no new features, no new nothing. Anyone that has still AIR apps in stores, you have less than a few months to switch to a different technology, even if you agree to pay for the right to publish with AIR it's likely it won't last that long anyway. ... View more

It's gonna be a challenge for sure. It's not really about bringing back developers to the tech but more about bringing new developers to the tech. The old non evolving AS3 is not helping in comparison to those modern and always evolving languages that are everywhere nowadays. Nothing really wrong with AS3 but nothing really exciting about it either. AS3 is gonna make the success of this more difficult and challenging. If only we had ASNext .... ... View more

Yes there's potential for a complete rebirth. At least imo under Adobe the future of AIR was doomed. Now hope can remain but we will have to wait and see. It's either gonna be awesome or it's gonna be disappointing but at least now nobody can know for sure. With Samsung behind for sure they have the financial capabilities of doing something great at least in theory. I don't want to get too excited cause it's still a long shot but this move gave me back something I lost years ago for AIR, hope. ... View more

This is good news instead or at least this gives ONE chance for AIR to be saved and become again relevant. Time will tell. ... View more

That's a weird question, if you export to "direct" that means you are using Stage3D, if you are using Stage3D that means you can't export to auto or other modes. If you CAN export to other modes then you don't use any Stage3D so don't export to "direct", it serves no purpose. ... View more

it's fairly easy so I won't be posting code but here are the steps: - Use the flash.media.Camera class to get a list of available (Camera.names) Cameras (permission required on mobile) - Pick the camera you need > loop Camera.names > Camera.getCamera( name ) > camera.position - Now you picked the correct camera > attach it to a flash.media.Video instance. - You can now add your Video instance in display list. - Take a screenshot of the camera > camera.drawToBitmapData(bitmapData);  < pass a valid BitmapData with the correct size - Save screenshot > bitmapData.encode( .... ) < will give you binarydata that you can save in DB the way you see fit. That's it. All those operations are described with examples in the AS3 Docs, use them. ... View more

I'll be surprised if they don't pull through as well but we are not used to this type of wait with AIR releases and you got to admit this is very unusual. Now some people are freaking out and we can understand that especially if they don't have a backup plan and another technology in hand. Like I said overall this is all information that anyone can use as they see fit so none of this is negative. ... View more

Those are ridiculous statements. Yes Adobe can afford for developers to hate them it just depends which ones. Adobe communication in forums is almost flawless when it comes to certain products/subjects, not when it comes to AIR and related where we mostly get silence. Adobe teams are very active on forums just not this one, this is reality. Nope, AIR is not good business, it's now barely used around the world and it's costing Adobe more than it's worth. The few dozens (hundreds top?) people that use it around the world doesn't cut it. People that are complaining, asking questions, etc ... are not whiners and are helping. First, the questions and criticisms are justified and the only reasons they look like whining is because they never get any answers by Adobe. For some of us, it's not our first rodeo of that type with Adobe and Adobe forums. Same posts, same comments, same debates, happened for years on the Flash forums and it turned out that the "whiners" as you call them were right all along. Second, this is helping, this gives a view of the state of this technology for anyone reading these forums. They can read your posts and think this technology is gonna be around for the next 5 years, or they can read other posts and think it's probably not worth investing time in it. At the end they got information and made their own choices. So the "whiners" are here to help too and since you seem to be missing that point as well, the whiners CARE about AIR and that's why they are here complaining. ... View more

One thing for sure we'll all regret AIR. ... View more

It makes sense and you probably could be called a AIR "expert", how many years have you worked with it? Now imagine you've been working with Unity for 5/10 years and you are an "expert" at it. What would be the chances you will still think Unity is slow compared to AIR? Personally I have 20 years of Flash experience, working with Apollo was painful (it would become AIR later), switching to AS3 was annoying after years of AS2 but at the end you just transition and can't go back. 5 years ago I had to get into nodejs, typescript and webgl and that was just awful coming from years of AS3. Today I can do this in my sleep, wanna Ios? android? Boom here it is, wanna desktop, done, etc ... Everything is easy and fast when you are expert at it and everything seems stupid and slow when you are not. As you seem to plan a switch to Unity, how many expert Unity developers do you think feel Unity is not comfortable and efficient? Do you really think you will still feel that way after 5 years of Unity dev? ... View more

People did bring up the "double speed" idea before .... It's a delusion, you work fast with AIR cos you know it well but that's the end of it. If you want to delude yourself into thinking anyone, ANYONE, would develop with AIR twice as fast than any other technology then that's all it is, a delusion. Note that some developer like you working with different technologies say the exact same thing for THEIR technology: "double speed". Other developer like me who know better roll their eyes and smile. ... View more

No, AIR is the most convenient platform for INDY developers, not businesses. Any SERIOUS business can't use AIR anymore, done. Look for nationwide AIR job on indeed, none, zip, done. ... View more

They left our apps alone for years then they came after us in January, maybe you just escaped their radar so far .... Also our subscriptions business is a multi million dollars one so that could explain why they came after us. ... View more

Totally correct, while other cross platform technologies handle those situations fast and well, AIR can only count on aficionados on the forums to make excuses for them as to why they can't react. At this point and for a few years now it is clear that Adobe AIR is mainly generating reasons for people to leave the platform instead of generating reasons as to why they should stay. Apparently some people still cannot read the signs .... For me AIR is just going through what Flash went through, a clear lack of will/vision for future by its owner (Adobe) which as a result make people leave the platform, then once the number of developer using it is low enough they'll just announce the end of support and that will be it. How hard can it really be to realize AIR as no other future? ... View more

1. Yes you can get your subscription based app accepted by apple, after 8 years on the store they started rejecting our apps for violation of policy, we had to go through the appeal and on the second appeal they gave us a phone number to call, we had many conversation with Apple team about what was wrong with our apps (they are never very clear on the phone about what's wrong so record everything and analyse later), then we started modifying the apps (remove any mention of subscription/website), modifying the store description (no mention of subscription/website), and modifying our WEBSITE (yeah that's as bad as it gets, they DO check your website) in order to not imply a competition with Apple subscription system. After a couple of months, back and forth, work, modifications, our apps were accepted again. 2. There are a few cross platform technologies that are pretty good and well supported (again AIR is not one of them). . Xamarin . HTML5 (WebGL) with cordova/ionic/phonegap with typescript (no javascript/css/html) . the new google cross platform Flutter ... View more

I can give you some tips about subscription based apps. First, don't build a business on AIR, serious businesses have no choice but to move away from AIR. It is not reliable and will likely die soon. It's your call but if you manage to get a reliable business together and Adobe announces the end of AIR (which they will), you are gonna have to build new apps with new tech ASAP. No businesses can afford to wait for that so that's why AIR is abandoned by businesses now and you can't find any jobs in that tech anymore. Your business, your call, at least you have been warned. Second, subscriptions based apps are fine if you got the market. The problem is with store policies toward subscriptions. The bottom line is that your apps can offer a login but NOTHING ELSE or else Apple will remove your apps from the store. That means no links as to where to can sign up, no advertising of any kind about your subscription system. Of course you can provide subscriptions based on Apple store system, that will cost you 30% for a year per subscription, 15% after if subscription is renewed. If subscription is interrupted for 30 days, next time the user sign up again it will cost you 30% again for a year. In our subscription based apps (free to download), we offer a free tour where people can use some functionality of the app but to get the whole thing they need subscription. Again as I said earlier you are forbidden to show in your app or store description where people can find and sign up for your subscription. This Apple policy (anti business) is going to the supreme court btw. ... View more

1. where is it crashing. (helps to have a QA team) 2. Does it crash in dev too. 3. trace, trace, trace. ... View more

It's always difficult to know exactly what's going on when your app crashes even after an update. After 10 years on the app store and 100 apps+ I can tell you the range of strangeness is quite large. A xml that was loading fine for years crashes the app now, parsing that json now crashes everything, removing that listener now terminates the app, etc .... You really never know what you are gonna get but all you can do is investigate, try to replicate and be patient. And let's not forget the best of all: In some instances the app would ONLY crash when LIVE, and never from testflight, or installed locally, just a lot of fun stuff .... ... View more

I can confirm all my apps still compile, run, and get published fine with latest AIR32 on Ios. ... View more

Cos the AIR team would have to change it not only for AIR but for all platforms, too much work for them. They are working on essential only now. ... View more

That method will never be changed but you can always write your own. ... View more

Good for your company, we did this 2 years ago. AIR is not something any company should rely on, at this point AIR is the only domain of indy developers up until Adobe pulls the plug. There are still people who think Adobe does NOT want people to leave the platform, there are mistaken, Adobe is working actively at making the last few remaining users to leave so they can safely put AIR away for good. ... View more

I'm not criticizing your English, you are obviously not a native English speaker, but most of what you say doesn't make any sense even after reading very carefully every single sentence. ... View more

I have often in these forums talked about the end of AIR and how ineluctable I thought it was but I always said Adobe will announce it and then it'll take a few years before they actually pull the plug. But what is actually going on, with no AIR33 release and the Android deadlines coming up makes me think that I might have been too optimistic and maybe the AIR team is already giving up and gonna let us all down this year. If that happens that would be the first time Adobe does something I did not see coming. If anyone still thinks the future of AIR is guarantied (and there are still many who do) then this should be your wake up call. ... View more