AIR.SWF in-browser API is broken with FP 11.2

The AIR.SWF in-browser API, as documented here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WSfffb011ac560372f-1c6efe05128cca667e7-8000.html#WS5 b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7cd2
is no longer working. It reports that AIR isn't installed when it really is.
I've filed a bug for this here:
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3062591

LocalConnection will only work between two applications running on the same machine.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/LocalConnecti on.html
"LocalConnection objects can communicate only among files that are running on the same client computer, but they can be running in different applications — for example, a file running in a browser and a SWF file running in Adobe AIR."
If you need to communicate between an app running on an iOS device and a swf in a browser on a computer look into the ServerSocket Class:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/reference/html/flash/net/ServerSocket.html
Works a little differently than LocalConnection but will allow connections between two different physical devices (ie: 2 computers, a computer and a mobile device, 2 mobile devices, etc). Since the iOS device uses the air runtime stuff it should have access to the ServerSocket Class while the browser swf can use a standard Socket to connect to the iOS device.

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http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=distributing_apps_3.html

quote:
Originally posted by:
cjm771
can't manage to figure out how the air.swf api works
The main thing you must understand about air.swf
is that its most important functionality can only be called from
within a UI event handler, such as for a button click. It's very
picky about this. You can't, for example, use the button click
event handler to begin the loading of air.swf, then in the "loaded"
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ready at the time the event handler is called. So, load it on app
startup. I even go to the extent of disabling the buttons that call
into air.swf until it's loaded.
quote:
im a bit unclear on where i get appid or developer id
The appid is your application's unique ID, which
you gave in setting up your project. Adobe recommends using
something based on your web site's domain name, in reverse order as
is done in Java and Objective C. If you're at foo.com, and call
your program Qux, then com.foo.qux is a good appid. The use of
domain-like names helps ensure that programs from different
companies don't collide with each others' namespaces.
By default, the pubid is a random number assigned by the IDE.
I forgot how you find out what number it used, just that there's a
way. Or, you can assign it yourself, in the project settings for
the AIR app. Right-click the project, go to the Run/Debug Settings
section, edit the launch configuration for your AIR app. You'll
find a Publisher ID field there. The documentation for ADL may be
helpful for picking your own pubid.
quote:
if someone has an example app or more in-depth explantion of
incorporating the given code , i would much appreciate it.
See my code in this thread:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=75&catid=697&threadid =1352505&highlight_key=y&keyword1=air%2Eswf

Adobe air swf file error in browser

my fla file setting
version: adobe air 1.0 actionscript 3.0
i able to compile without problem and when i load the swf file in browser, if my actionscript included this line "import flash.filesystem.File". My flash just show up "blank" . no error in flashlog. if i removed this line, my swf file able to run. what is wrong?
p/s: i embeded the air app as swf and open with browser

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