It's posible to install a Flash generated .IPA using TestFlight ?
I need to test my app in a few number of ipads, for private (not public) use.
Thanks.
I haven't used it myself, but there's a native extension for TestFlight provided by Adobe.
It comes bundled with the Adobe Gaming SDK (maybe you can download it separately).
Here's the documentation.
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I am working on the windows-8 PC. And i have some HTML app gui which i want to convert to android mobile app.
I am new to phonegap.
How to setup the development environment for phonegap?
1> Following tool android developers app tells to use phonegap cli to create new project :--
http://phonegap.com/blog/2014/04/23/phonegap-developer-app/
This video uses Android sdk to create new project :--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF6dzbTDwdY
Which is the best methord to start working with phonegap ?
Do we need android SDK if we work with phonegap cli ?
2> This link tells to use commandline or IDE methord to create phonegap projects :--
https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/wiki
3> What exactly is the relation between android SDK & phonegap cli .. ?
i would recommend you to use Cordova. Why? Yes, there is no realy reason why to do this, It's rather a question of what you like to work with.
I'm using Cordova. Maybe you read the Getting started guide and then the following documentation.
After you installed all, you can open up the CMD and create a new cordova project. If you want to know, how to do this, go on with the posted link above. A little bit under the setup instructions you can find a Guide which explains you, how to setup a new project and so on.
If you work with Cordova, you need Eclipse and i would recommend you to install Genymotion for having more options of deploying an app to a device.
Later on, if you would like to convert an Application to another platform you can use the Phonegap Build from Adobe. But normaly you can use your code like you wrote it for android 1:1 for iOS. Maybe there are some tiny differences, but they would'nt be fixed by the phonegap build i think. So... i would say there is no way to say "You should work with Phonegap" or "You should work with Cordova" it's your choice.
If you want to build app for android locally you'll need android SDK. This is because phonegap/cordova uses the android SDK to wrap the app.
Basically phonegap/cordova uses the SDK to compile the project for android platform and to build the APK file which can be installed in devices. You can interpret as Phonegap/cordova cli is an interface between android technology and cross platform technology. Similarly iOS will need some native technology to work with phonegap. Thiese SDK helps to build and package the app for their own platform which you've written in HTML/CSS/Javascript.
Is any way to install and use ane extension from external module/swf.
As far i know, that extension files(ddl etc) is installed with native installer.
Is any way to install them in runtime, for example when external swf is loaded?
On mobile: no - all code needs to be there at compile-time; you can't load any external code at runtime (through a SWF or ANE).
On desktop, it might be possible, as an ANE is essentially a SWC with some magic, but in that case, it would be easier to just use the SWC/SWF directly.
A client is having me convert an HTML5 video web application that I've already built into an AIR app.
The end users are going to need this to work with no internet access, so I MUST include a LOT of video files with the installer. This works fine on my machine, but my client can't install it because the .air file is too large and they don't have enough RAM. We'll need this installed on a number of laptops that aren't super powerful.
My SDK is up to date and we're using AIR 3.1.
Has anyone else run into a similar situation? Is there any workaround? For instance could I either include both the installer and the .air in a zipped folder, then have the installer move the video files to the appropriate location, or use AS to have the installer download the files (they will have internet access when installing).
I'd recommend you not to include heavy video files into your application. Downloading assets from web is a descent idea, I use same technique for several museum touchscreen apps.
So here's workflow: on startup app tries to connect to "assets server" and request list of files to download. It can be list of all the files, or list of files that have been updated/added since timestamp that you pass with your request. Then you download them to File.applicationStorageDirectory. Not to have mess in that directory I put all of them to "cache" subdirectory.
In case there's no internet connection for some reason when you install that app, you can have all that "cache" folder on your memory-stick/externalHD so you can manually perform that downloading process.
If you use Greensock's LoaderMax: I've written a simple URLStreamLoader that extends LoaderItem, handy for downloading files. Can share that.
The problem is quite obvious: the Adobe AIR provided installer for deploying your application is lacking.
However, Adobe recently released a new feature for deploying Adobe AIR apps: "runtime captive bundle" (Windows or OSX).
Which means 2 important things:
You receive an .exe which no longer requires an user to have Adobe AIR runtime installed (and no more incompatibilities when targeting multiple Adobe AIR runtimes).
You are no longer provided with an installer, and you have to find your own (which solves your problem halfway).
Target bundle when "compiling", and then just use a better installer (Windows or OSX) - think you are just deploying a normal application (worked for me:) ). There are too many installers arround to mention.
Your installer of choice + bundle compiling, together solve your offline installation requirement and the memory exhausting issue.
Packaging a captive runtime bundle for desktop computers
I have overlaid Air 3.0 over the flex sdk. I have targeted swf version 13 and included 3.0 in the header of my xml file, is there anything else i need to do to get my app published with air 3.0.
Also is there a way to check what version of air the app has been published with once it has been published?
I am using flash builder 4.5 and osx.
You can get the AIR version at runtime using NativeApplication.nativeApplication.runtimeVersion
Edit:
Also remember that there are different SDKs for Windows and for OSX. The Windows SDK does not work on OSX and vice-versa. Attempting to do so results in a runtime error.
OS X doesn't really matter.
Your application descriptor has changed in format since AIR2.0 The easiest way to check this is create a new AIR 3 project and check the app descriptor xml for that application, and compare it to yours. You will easily find out the differences.
The AIR runtime version (as lukevanin said) can be read from
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.runtimeVersion
Then you can publish in the same way as before (export release build -> select certificates, etc)
I've made an AIR app with Flash Builder 4. Works great but I want to run the app without installing it. So..... when I install the app, I copy the files from program files and paste it on a CD and give it to somebody. He runs it on another computer without AIR runtime with as result that it doesn't work.
How can I bypass this? Like some launcher/setup that installs AIR runtime for the client if it aint installed. If it is installed, run the AIR app.
Thanks.
Creating an AIR Badge would be a good option.
The idea is you pass a link to the client, the AIR Badge check if
AIR is installed. If it is, installs your app, otherwise installs AIR
first.
There's a pretty good AIR Badger tutorial on the Adobe Developer Connection site. AIR Badger is an AIR App Grant Skinner wrote to make the setup easier.
Also check out the new AIR Launchpad, which is another AIR app that helps you get started with all sort of AIR related functions, including install badge.
Unfortunately the AIR Badger works online.
You cannot bypass AIR install. Maybe have a third party utility(batch script/etc.) that looks for air related files/.air filetype associations and based on that launches an AIR installer you supply on CD or the app itself.
On osx you have the mdls command that displays information about a file. You could check for kMDItemKind:
mdls -name kMDItemKind /path/to/yourApp.air
If it prints "com.adobe.air.InstallerPackage", then air should be installed, otherwise it will just print "Document".
There should be something similar for windows command prompt that checks registry file type associations.
After you've done that check, install AIR first or just the app, depending on the result.
HTH