Comments on: What are your biggest issues with Adobe AIR?

By: Cameron Gull

Cameron Gull — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:48:49 +0000

I found out the solution to my problem “air file is damaged”. After trying everything I could find, it occurred to me to see if my servers had a MIME type to recognize .air files. Voila! I added that, and the upgrades worked beautifully!

for your reference, the correct mime type for .air is:
application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip

By: Cameron Gull

Cameron Gull — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:51 +0000

What is currently driving me nuts is how next to impossible it is to get an airVersion update to work (when it updates the entire app) as opposed to a minor update.

I keep getting “air file is damaged” errors. I’ve tried every suggestion I’ve found online to no avail.

I also agree with Yardboy. We really need to be able to protect our HTML/Javascript code! We were thinking of creating some really useful apps using Air until we found that out.

By: Erik Hauters

Erik Hauters — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:12:29 +0000

The fact that the file-copyToAsync method has no progress-event. That’s an issue to me!

By: Shayon

Shayon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:22:54 +0000

I have a feeling that everyone on openSUSE 11.2 (64-bit) have been facing exactly the same message as that by Jeff -

“An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator.”

Any idea what might be causing it?

By: Yardboy

Yardboy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:57:47 +0000

Inability to protect the code in an HTML/Javascript AIR app is my biggest complaint.

Printing support is another big issue. I’m currently shelling reports/labels out to a browser so they print correctly.

By: Tim Bowerbank

Tim Bowerbank — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:19:04 +0000

Currently trying to publish AIR file using Flash CS4 and keep getting the same error message: usage error (incorrect arguments)… noticed that this has been reported above. It works fine in ADL.

I’m on Mac OSX 10.4.11 – all updates installed on Flash CS4.

Any help would be great – thank you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:38:41 +0000

Getting the really un-useful error message: An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator.”

I’m running the installer as root. I am the administrator.

SuSE 11.2 (64 bit)

By: AnandGanesan

AnandGanesan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:52:33 +0000

HTML component used in AIR consuming more memory.
Simply loaded google page in an empty AIR
application with an HTML comp.

I have simply clicked the books link and checked the memory goes around 42 MB.

I am using AIR verison 1.5.2

Thanks,
Anand G

By: pravin

pravin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:36:37 +0000

@ above : You can download the xml d file from here…

Here is the xml file …

http://pravinranjan.com/downloads/Tree_3_app.xml

By: pravin

pravin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:33:56 +0000

The current issue is biggest…

Error creating AIR file.
Usage error (Incorrect arguments)

Here is the xml d-file…

com.adobe.example.TreeXMas
1.0
Tree_Xmas
Free games — Lit up the XMAS tree
Tree_Xmas
Freeware

Tree_3.swf
standard
false
true
false
true
false

128x.png
48x.png
32x.png
16x.png

false
false