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

By: amit

amit — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:02:11 +0000

there should be a way to change the location of air run time, for installed air application. What i belive is that for now it harcoded in the executable

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:25:32 +0000

Thinking that the only way to do things is asynchronously is just plain stupid. Hello, we’re doing some GUI here!

I simply can not fathom the way Adobe people are thinking by not giving an alternative to do URL requests synchronously. It makes things complicated for nothing.

The more I use Adobe AIR the more I get frustrated with the ridiculous APIs. If it weren’t for the multi-platform capability, I’d definitely stay away from it. If only there were a comparable open source alternative …

By: Arend

Arend — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:58:00 +0000

Luis: Thanks for doing the research on the memory allocation.

Biggest issue is memory allocation, especially for long running apps.

By: RCharles

RCharles — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:25:58 +0000

I’m an end user with a software background but not an AIR developer. When I launch TimesReader, an AIR application, I always get an AIR popup saying I need to upgrade. How can this be disabled? I won’t automatically launch an upgrade without doing some research. (I have the same problem with Adobe Reader and the Adobe habit of forcing automatic updates, which I block.)

RCharles

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:41:05 +0000

Our biggest issue is support for firewire to natively split the audio and video for use with streaming. Flash Live Media Encoder does it, but when using Aodbe Air to replicate it, there is no built in support, and only uses the Video from firewire and ignores the audio, which forces us to have to plug in the Audio from RCA as well as the firewire when streaming.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:50:07 +0000

The current issue is biggest…

Error creating AIR file.
Usage error (Incorrect arguments), from Flash CS4

I solved by removing one of the files i intent to attach with it….., try this…. i worked to me…

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:10:35 +0000

I just finished doing more experiments, I looks like the AIR app does free the memory, but the OS leaves it assignned to the app process, until other apps requiere that memory. So, looks like it is a natural behaviour and the memory leak is not as terrible as I thougth.

Thanks
Luis

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:19:25 +0000

Hey, Ive been pulling out my hair about memory leaks in an AIR 1.5 app.

I discovered something interesting.

After removing references and listeners, if I minimize and restore the app. It does free the memory!!

Its weird, I added two lines of code to minimize and restore when my pre defined top of memory is reached and It does the work.

Adobe people, What a heck do you do when the app is minimized and restored? Is it the OS, who cleans the memory?

Why dont you do that when you pass the GC?

Thanks
Luis

By: Arun Ganesh

Arun Ganesh — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:58:03 +0000

Hi,

Any one knows the solution, am trying to attach the encrypted SQLite database adobe air-adobe flex bulder , it does not get attached using sqlconnection.attach throws error, though the given key is correct, but it gets open using sqlconnection.open with the same key, any one knows the solution, how to attach the encrypted data base, since am using two data base one is opened and another must be attached to the existing ,thanks in advance. using adobe air- flex related. i use the following code

databaseFile1 = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath(“Sample_1.sqlite”);
databaseFile2 = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath(“Sample_2.sqlite”);

dbConnection.open(databaseFile1, SQLMode.CREATE, false, 1024, secKey);

dbConnection.attach(“db2″,databaseFile2,null,secKey);

got the following error.

ERROR #3125 Unable to open the database file.

By: amar

amar — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:42:56 +0000

@Shayon ,

you must be having Eclipse plugin version of the Flex Builder open while installing AIR run time.This gives the same error as told by you.