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Adobe AIR now Available for Android

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Re: Adobe AIR now Available for Android

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Post by slantyyz »

stackthat wrote: post #2

This is a big deal, if Google improve Android Store as well then new Android - AIR apps can be a new era for Android.

I think this would be a bigger deal if AIR was made available on Blackberry QNX, Windows 7 Phone and WebOS as well.

I'm not sure that most desktop AIR apps will translate nicely to the mobile experience at first, nor will you see a lot of nice ports of desktop AIR apps for some time.

Having AIR across all the major mobile OS's (except Apple's) would make it quite compelling as a mobile development platform, though.

Re: Adobe AIR now Available for Android

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Post by wizard_2 »

eiji wrote: post #3

The day "Adobe Air" installed itself on my pc without permission was the day I turned away from Adobe.

While I have no doubt it sneaked its way in though some means you weren't expecting, I've never seen air install automatically. It often is shoehorned in though flash, but there are numerous prompts about what it's about to do.

Re: Adobe AIR now Available for Android

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Post by eiji »

wizard_2 wrote: post #6
eiji wrote: post #3

The day "Adobe Air" installed itself on my pc without permission was the day I turned away from Adobe.

While I have no doubt it sneaked its way in though some means you weren't expecting, I've never seen air install automatically. It often is shoehorned in though flash, but there are numerous prompts about what it's about to do.

It installs itself together with "Adobe Reader 9" with NO option for exclusion ("... to leverage A.Air"). You can deinstall it separatly after installation.
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