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

By: Chris Hills

Chris Hills — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:18:35 +0000

Adobe AIR managed to infect my system as it is now bundled with Adobe Reader. I was not asked if I wanted to install it, nor could I find an alternate installation package that does not contain AIR.

Now that it is installed, I cannot remove it. When I try, I get the message “This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.”.

By: Hart Woolery

Hart Woolery — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:07:50 +0000

+1 to Manish Jethani’s comment on the security violation error of loading a remote swf into an application. Should be some way to allow specific domains full control of the application.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:29:10 +0000

Garbage Collector does not work properly. it is not with AIR but also with Flex 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0. I think there is problem in GC itself at player level. the AIR application transparent window eat some much amount of CPU. that is very bad.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:04:46 +0000

I downloaded the “Tour de Flex” app yesterday to my Mac Book Pro. I was playing with it for about half an hour today. I then went to use another application and then when I went to use “Tour de Flex” it just showed the top menu bar. I tried but the App would just no appear again. I then shut down my Mac and the “Tour de Flex” app would not let me. I then did an “Alt CTL esc” to clear.

I was hoping to develop using Air, but it appears to have a least one major issue. I have enjoyed using Flex.

By: Sergey Popov

Sergey Popov — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:30:56 +0000

+1 to:

“For all platforms:
- Allow the user to install the application in “user space”, opposed to “for all users”. This would remove the need for administrator rights, and it would be much easier to install and uninstall!”

We faced this problem right now in distributing business intranet application - our users don’t have administrative privileges but have AIR runtime - but to install or even to update application, they need administrative privileges again. I don’t understand it at all - why AIR runtime always install applications “for all users”? Why it can’t be configured? :(

By: bruce stenberg

bruce stenberg — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:30:52 +0000

For me it’s printing. The printing generated by flex is very blury and things like barcodes etc need to be crystal clear.

I would also be nice to have complete control over printing without an os print dialog box.

By: davidstclair

davidstclair — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:38:22 +0000

Less scary installs.
Possibility of NON admin installs for applications.
More customisation in the installs - allowing us developers to make the install routine fit with the rest of the OS. The black boxes are cool but are different to the rest of the system mesages.
cheers

By: Dallan Quass

Dallan Quass — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:35:55 +0000

The scary installation warnings. Because AIR issues scary warnings than you don’t get when downloading an exe, it makes it seem to most people that AIR apps must be much worse than the exe’s they’re used to.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:00:20 +0000

For Windows XP:
- Better error handling when a user with restricted account tries to install an AIR application. It will fail (because you need administrator rights), but the error message indicates something is wrong with the AIR file, “contact the publisher”. Same goes for de-installation, we get funny error messages here, too.

For Linux:
- PLEASE support Linux in the installer badge.
- Please support 64-Bit Linux. It’s very painful to have a high-end computer and then your have to go through so much trouble to install Flash and AIR on it.

For all platforms:
- Allow the user to install the application in “user space”, opposed to “for all users”. This would remove the need for administrator rights, and it would be much easier to install and uninstall!

By: John Athayde

John Athayde — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:20:56 +0000

Trying to run any AIR app gives me:

“This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.”

After downloading the Adobe AIR installer from Adobe.com and trying to run it, the *installer itself* gives me that error.