Michoko
Here are some of the key issues in our communications with Harman so far. Andrew wrote:
The goal for the formal release of AIR v33 is then at the start of July, hopefully giving sufficient time for application packaging/testing/deployment prior to the 1st August deadline. Apologies for the delay (and for the information drought recently) – this deal has been a long time being prepared and ensuring that all the lawyers are happy!
It's almost July, and a stable release doesn't seem like its in the cards until at least the second week of July based on more recent communications but there's still no guarantee. Furthermore, despite letting us know that the deal has been a long time in the making, there was almost no rollout prepared -- no website or functional pricing model. These minor details already paint a bleak picture in terms of the resources Harman is allotting for the SDK.
On the 7th we were told the beta would no longer be on time
As I'd written below (on 31 May), we are hoping to soon publish our beta of the AIR v33 SDK to support Android 64-bit ARM platforms. We were targeting the end of the coming week - 14th June
We're thinking that it would be good to get you "something" that you can use ASAP just to start testing your own applications, so we are planning to push out a beta version (or perhaps we should call it alpha..) as soon as this is ready,
On the 17th we were finally told Beta links were coming "soon". And a day later we have this:
As a quick update: we found an interesting problem this afternoon with our builds of the AIR runtime, which means we were unable to release these ones; we've just managed to resolve this and are rebuilding the release candidates. It was an issue with symbol visibility caused by the build system, rather than anything functional, so we expect our previous testing to still be valid with the rebuilt versions.
We'll be doing a brief bit of sanity testing on this in the morning tomorrow so we should be able to get the release out to you by around midday GMT. Thanks for all those of you who've accepted that license agreement, I'll send you links to where the packages can then be downloaded.
I'm still waiting for the link. We look forward to continue working within the AS3 ecosystem, don't get me wrong, it's just a tough sell at the moment considering we don't have anything concrete to tell our clients during a pivotal time where they have a TON of questions and fears.
I don't have anything more to say about this, especially here. Sorry Josh.