Mobile app to desktop air app

How do I convert my mobile air app to a desktop air app. I basically just want the app to look just like the emulator version but maybe with a 1024x768 view instead (tablet sized).

When you build the release build of the application, you can choose "AIR for desktop" and the app looks exactly like in the emulator.
Otherwise you have to port some of your application components to an AIR project (if you want the full AIR desktop functionality).

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What's the difference on StageWebview in Mobile and Desktop AIR apps?

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What's the difference between StageWebView in an AIR mobile and
AIR desktop app? (AIR 3.9 SDK)
I have the problem that in a StageWebView related feature is working and on mobile but not on desktop AIR apps.
The feature lets users login into a website and post to the forum - on mobile it seems that the cookie/session is not found.
What could be the reason for that?
Any ideas welcome!

I would recommend against using useNative = true in Windows, because that means the behaviour and presentation of the page is very unpredictable, since the user can have pretty much any version of IE from 6 to 11 and beyond. That's more than a decade worth of different (and some really old and buggy) versions of Internet Explorer. The embedded WebKit in AIR could use an update (it's a bit old), but it's still a lot better than the wild territory of native IE ;-). I'm glad the AIR team listened to us and in AIR 3.9 they gave us back the option to not use native IE in Windows (in some of the previous versions, such as AIR 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8, only the IE engine was available to StageWebView, which forced me to use AIR 3.5 for Windows versions of my application, since the IE engine provided all sorts of problems).
Anyway, I don't understand your post very well. First you say "is working and on mobile but not on desktop AIR apps". From that I get that your page is working on mobile but doesn't work properly on desktop, but then you say "on mobile it seems that the cookie/session is not found". That contradicts the other sentence, since now you're saying it doesn't work properly on mobile.
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I'm new to flash builder (using 4.5 for os x) and I've been working on a desktop AIR app for the last week. I've been running into a strange issue when deugging my app. Every once and a while (maybe 4-5 times a day) after I make changes to my code and I make a new debug build, a much older version of the app runs when I run the app with or without the debugger, or even if I export for release. It's as though its running (or building) from the cache, except I'm building a desktop app and I'm not testing the swf on a browser. I've turned off "Build Automatically", cleaned the project and build again but no changes are reflected. I can't figure out how, but after cleaning, quitting flash builder, restarting, cleaning, building again, etc.. numerous times suddenly I will see the current version of the app back up and running. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to quickly resolve the issue, or what exactly is fixing it. Every time it seems like something else triggers FB to refresh the build. I can even run the debugger and step through my current code while seeing completely different results on the screen.
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Thanks for the answer. How exactly Flash Builder is running is a little clearer to me now. I checked and the timestamps were indeed being updated correctly.
This helped me to look elsewhere for the issue. I actually now think it may have to do with mobile home sync that I have going through OS X. Whenever the sync runs, FB seems to launch an outdated (as in hours ago) version of the app. Despite the fact that the sync is not pulling in new files, it seems to be the issue. If i stop the sync I start seeing the current version of the app again when I run the debugger. So I think its just the OS causing my problem (although I still don't completely understand why exactly the issue would manifest itself in FB). Fortunately I can recreate the issue every time I run the sync, so the problem is consistent at least!
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How to read http cookies from adobe desktop Air app using flex/flash builder in AS 3.0 ??

Im developing Adobe desktop air app where i need to read the session id from the cookie of a http request.
I have found a property called URLRequest.manageCookies supported by AIR so i Hope there should be a way to read the cookies as well. Im Using Flash Builder 4.5
Please provide any reference code or guide me for this research;
searched a lot regarding on this web.
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I want to read http cookies not Local shared Object and in a desktop AIR application.
Im using Flash builder 4.5
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Sorry, but you are at the wrong forum; this one is only for discussions on the forums themselves. The Air forums are here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/air

Is there a way to open the settings app from an air app on both iOS and android?

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Not sure exactly why yet, but I finally found something that worked!!!! Hope this saves someone else hours of research:
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Desktop AIR app and Facebook login

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Thanks for the answer. How exactly Flash Builder is running is a little clearer to me now. I checked and the timestamps were indeed being updated correctly.
This helped me to look elsewhere for the issue. I actually now think it may have to do with mobile home sync that I have going through OS X. Whenever the sync runs, FB seems to launch an outdated (as in hours ago) version of the app. Despite the fact that the sync is not pulling in new files, it seems to be the issue. If i stop the sync I start seeing the current version of the app again when I run the debugger. So I think its just the OS causing my problem (although I still don't completely understand why exactly the issue would manifest itself in FB). Fortunately I can recreate the issue every time I run the sync, so the problem is consistent at least!
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IPhone Apps and MacBook Air Apps...

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