Adobe AIR available mobile platform

Hello All,
I am interested in knowing what mobile platforms will have support for Adobe AIR - either directly from Adobe or by third party.
I understand Android currently supports it what about Windows Mobile 7, Qualcomm Brew MP , Mediatek etc
Regards
Srini

See response here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/716414?tstart=0
-Rob

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Any idea when adobe air for mobiles is coming out and on what phones will it be available?
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Sorry, only Apple will know that, Rob; and even if we knew, nobody would be allowed to post it here, before the raw support has been released.
Keep checking this link. Apple - Aperture - Technical Specifications - RAW Support
I'm waiting for the Aperture update so I can start playing with my pics.
I can understand, that you are eager to try your new camera - try Adobe's DNG converter, while you are waiting - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=106&platform=Macintos h
or shoot rwa&jpeg and set the Import panel to import raw&jpeg, with the jpeg as original. YOu can change that later, when the raw support has been released, and use the raw files you imported.
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Léonie

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I was just recently asked whether there is a project for developing Adobe AIR for mobile devices?
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lookin g forward for Adobe AIR to come on mobiles as there are lot
of limitations in Flash lite pertaining to local ddevice data
storage.
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Hello, I am somewhat confused by the content published by Adobe which claims that AIR for Android or iOS publishing creates a fully native app.
For example, in this Adobe Developer Connection article (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html) written in May 2011, the following claims are made:
"Since we are able to compile ActionScript to ARM ahead of time, the application gets all the performance benefits that the JIT would offer and the license compliance of not requiring a runtime in the final application."
"When you build your application for iOS, there is no interpreted code and no runtime in your final binary. Your application is truly a native iOS app."
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http://www.tricedesigns.com/2011/08/10/air-3-0-captive-runtime/
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http://www.swfgeek.net/2011/09/26/targeting-flash-player-11-rc1-air-3-rc1-in-flash-profess ional-cs5-5/
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http://www.swfgeek.net/2011/09/26/targeting-flash-player-11-rc1-air-3-rc1-in-flash-profess ional-cs5-5/
Note that if you are using Flash Pro to create an app with AIR 3 you will need actually package the app with the Command Line. The tooling is not yet available in Flash Authoring Environment.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/iBrent#p/u/6/MRcoJ6ClLqo
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Excessive connection latency... Does Adobe Air support connection pooling on mobile?

Hello,
I am developing a mobile app which loads thumbnail images from a remote server. During testing on the Android platform, however, I have discovered that images are very slow to load. By monitoring server logs I have determined that the poor performance is caused by the lack of connection pooling, meaning that each request builds a new connection. Running the sample code below on a mobile device produces 20 requests and 20 connection attempts. By comparison, the same web or desktop app creates 2 connections and reuses those connections for subsequent requests. The substantial overhead and latency associated with generating new connections has a substantial affect on performance, with 20 thumbnails taking approximately 4-5 seconds to load on mobile versus 0.5 - 1 second on a desktop.
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package
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          import flash.display.Sprite;
          import flash.display.StageAlign;
          import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
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          import flash.net.URLRequest;
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1) Is there something that I can do to enable connection reuse?
2) Is this an inherent limitation with Adobe Air for mobile?
3) Can someone confirm whether this limitation exists on other mobile platforms (iOS or Blackberry)?
Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I am really hoping that this isn't a fundamental limitation of Adobe Air as it causes my app to feel very sluggish.
Thanks,
Adam

Hmm. You were absolutely correct, that's a bit disappointing!
This is Android recompiled for 3.4 rather than 3.1.
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COMPLETED 50 with 8 loaders in 11327 milliseconds or 226.54 per load.   50           8              11327    226.54
COMPLETED 50 with 50 loaders in 8899 milliseconds or 177.98 per load.   50           50           8899       177.98
COMPLETED 50 with 50 loaders in 9280 milliseconds or 185.6 per load.     50           50           9280       185.6
COMPLETED 50 with 50 loaders in 9513 milliseconds or 190.26 per load.   50           50           9513       190.26
COMPLETED 50 with 8 loaders in 9744 milliseconds or 194.88 per load.     50           8              9744       194.88
COMPLETED 50 with 1 loaders in 16383 milliseconds or 327.66 per load.   50           1              16383    327.66
Versus Apple iPad recompiled for 3.4 rather than 3.1.
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COMPLETED 50 with 8 loaders in 502 milliseconds or 10.04 per load. 50      8        502    10.04
COMPLETED 50 with 50 loaders in 100 milliseconds or 2 per load.     50      50      100    2
COMPLETED 50 with 50 loaders in 117 milliseconds or 2.34 per load. 50      50      117    2.34
COMPLETED 50 with 50 loaders in 93 milliseconds or 1.86 per load. 50      50      93      1.86
COMPLETED 50 with 8 loaders in 270 milliseconds or 5.4 per load.    50      8        270    5.4
COMPLETED 50 with 8 loaders in 307 milliseconds or 6.14 per load. 50      8        307    6.14
COMPLETED 50 with 8 loaders in 316 milliseconds or 6.32 per load. 50      8        316    6.32
COMPLETED 50 with 4 loaders in 555 milliseconds or 11.1 per load. 50      4        555    11.1
COMPLETED 50 with 4 loaders in 547 milliseconds or 10.94 per load. 50      4        547    10.94
COMPLETED 50 with 4 loaders in 535 milliseconds or 10.7 per load. 50      4        535    10.7
COMPLETED 50 with 2 loaders in 1038 milliseconds or 20.76 per load.        50      2        1038          20.76
COMPLETED 50 with 2 loaders in 1042 milliseconds or 20.84 per load.        50      2        1042          20.84
COMPLETED 50 with 1 loaders in 2107 milliseconds or 42.14 per load.        50      1        2107          42.14
COMPLETED 50 with 1 loaders in 2099 milliseconds or 41.98 per load.        50      1        2099          41.98
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PS: Code I used in my test (which was a conventional View based Mobile app) is below in case you want to include it when you submit a bug report.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:View xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" title="TestLLatency" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
   import mx.events.FlexEvent;
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    startTest();
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    if(queue) throw new Error("Please wait for previous test to end.");
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     bob.getChildAt(1).addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,repeatTest);
     bob.getChildAt(2).addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,repeatTest);
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     bob.getChildAt(4).addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,repeatTest);
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       break;
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       this.numLoaders = 4;
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       this.numLoaders = 2;
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      case 0 :
       this.numLoaders = 1;
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<fx:Declarations>

</fx:Declarations>
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<mx:UIComponent id="bob" width="100%" height="100%" creationComplete="uicomponent1_creationCompleteHandler(event)" />
<s:TextArea text="{results}" width="100%" height="100%" />
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RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR is GM now and you can
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http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/robohelp-packager-for-air
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knowledge base, online help and external web pages.
· Multiple templates to choose from - Organizations get
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skin or theme for each of these templates. With RoboHelp Packager
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pre-release).
Needless to say, Adobe AIR has attracted a lot of interest
among the help community and some of the experts believe that
within two years, Adobe AIR will be the preferred help format for
40% of all help authors.
If you have not tried it, you can download it now from
http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/robohelp-packager-for-air
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Adobe Technical Communication Suite, FrameMaker and RoboHelp
www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/
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- Flash Builder is pretty bad as the development environment,
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I ruled out HTML5 frameworks for the same reason as you stated above. Last few months I've been working with Xamarin MonoTouch and I think it is perfect for my projects. 100% native UI experience, about 80% of the code is shared among the platforms, iOS, MacOSX, Android and Windows 8/RT are supported. Took me about 2 months to convert my 2Mb ActionScript Adobe AIR project to Xamarin MonoTouch (iOS). The entire process was fun and painless. Now thinking to port to MacOSX and Android. My iOS app is already at the App Store, no major complains so far.
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Virtual Currency For Adobe Air

Hey guys.
I made an app with Adobe Air for mobile and I want to intergrate Virtual Currency to the app. I have idea, but I don't want to build it from the scratch. I try to find some kind of platform that help to solve this problem, but I haven't found it.
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Are you using the Acrobat.com desktop application? This is no longer supported; you should uninstall it, and use the Adobe Reader tools for this.
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Adobe AIR for Android

Hi there
I would want to know if Adobe AIR will still be supporting Android.
We are currently creating a app using Flash Builder and we are just cautious that it won't be supporting Android in the future, is this true?

Do you mean will Flex support Android? That's a question for Apache.
As for Adobe AIR (with or without Flex) we all wonder how committed Adobe is to it. To me it seems Adobe is fairly committed to Adobe AIR as a platform, even though the whole Flash platform has been scaled back -- AIR is doing quite well and there are frequent updates. That's only my guess, as good as yours.
-Aaron

Adobe AIR available mobile platform

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