Flash Builder 4.7 - How to update AIR SDK

sachax

Is it possible to use AIR 3.6 with Flash Builder 4.6?

VVcau

hello evrybody

I did exactly what you said on a mac. When i open FB 4.7, the Air SDK installed appears correctly (3.5), but when i put 3.5 instead of 3.1 in the first line of the app-xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.5"> when i try to run it says that the namespace is "unknown" and when i try to export to a validated version after putting the certificate (it's an android app), u have this error...

Documents/Adobe Flash Builder 4.7/Dis_moi_tablettes/bin-release-temp/Dis_moi_tablettes-app.xml: error 102: Invalid namespace http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.5

please help me i'm totally blocked since more than 3 days which this

thanks

Mistakenness

I think that if you use a trial version of Flash Builder you can't pack, because the utilities folder is empty.

Daniel

*sigh* ...

I've only just seen this (I hadn't packaged for iOS during the last weeks). It's the same for me: on OS X, I have to merge the 4.6 SDK into the 4.5 SDK in order to be able to package iOS projects. (For those on a Mac, remember to use the "ditto" command on the terminal to do this.)

Seriously, I don't know what's up with the Flash Builder Team. This is really terrible. 🙁

I have forwarded the bug report to my Adobe contacts right away. I'll keep you updated if anything comes out of this.

Al_Birdie

The pathetic update mechanism Adobe is using for the FB4.7 is just one more thing that drives developers away from this IDE.

If it wasn't for the iOS simulator, I'd be using a a different IDE as well.

Daniel

I have just been notified from Adobe that they have fixed this problem! When you download AIR 3.6 now, everything is included for iOS packaging.

Al_Birdie

Definitely a step in the right direction!
Thanks for the update Daniel.

dmonkey

I don't know if this is related but I'm trying to build a Starling Mobile AS3 project in FB 4.7 using the latest AIR 3.6 SDK. I followed the steps described above and I'm having a very strange issue:

When I compile the project in the AIR Simulator everything works, same for the iOS Simulator, but when I compile a release build for iOS and deploy it on the iPad it starts to get a little funky... The app just freezes. When I then recompile for AIR, I get a runtime error: It seems the embeds suddenly stopped working and Starling can't generate Textures.
Again, I know the assets are properly embedded, they only break when I export a release build for iOS !

My project is setup like this:
One Flex Library project, which has all the Game logic, assets, ...
One Mobile As project : a wrapper for the game

Any ideas are welcome, because I'm out of options...

Thanks !

yono

I too am out of options (and patience) after my third fresh install of FB 4.7 (after trying to update the AIR SDK and following all of Daniel's and Adobe's instructions) - on the latest fresh reinstall I get the following range of errors on startup. No workspaces imported at all. Any ideas on how to sort this please let me know.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4195718/fb4.7.png

cparki3

I just got the same exact error as yono! C'mon FB!!

Al_Birdie

I've had that error once. IIRC, removing the metadata directory solved the issue. You can find that in your workspace directory.

yono

Apologies for my last late night last post. A fresh head this morning and I managed to get FB4.7 and AIr 3.6 installed OK after some more re-installing. The trick is if you reinstall it to make sure you use the uninstaller which is in the FlashBuilder 4.7 directory. Also I was using a version of the AirSDK3.6 which didn't include all the bits required for some reason. Thankfully Daniel has got Adobe to update that stuff up!

Still after doing that and rebooting (on MacOSX) a fresh install of FB4.7 yields a huge list of errors in the Error Log. I ignored them all and downloaded the latest AirSDK 3.6 with Compiler (that now seems to now have everything in it!) - so if you use ditto on the command line and merge it with (make a backup first) the original AIRSDK folder it will work. The error log grows a little bit more but everything seems to run OK so far. A few null pointer errors but nothing that stops compiling.

So yes it works - but be warned FB4.7 is not some software to trust with your latest client project quite yet. Keep a separate version of your project with FB 4.6 just in case. Adobe I hope you are listening to us - your users!

If anyone has any more ideas on how to solve any of the list of errors in the Error Log (screenshot below) - please post up some more answers! Ignoring them just seems to be waiting for trouble.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4195718/fb4.7_errors.png

Lastly - thanks again Daniel for getting Adobe to release an AirSDK with all the components included in it! My client thanks you too!

Al_Birdie

Unfortunately, there's is no way to clear, or even reduce the errors in the log.
Yes, FB is buggy as shit (I pretty sure I'm not allowed to write what I feel about a company releasing alpha software for $500+ here, so I won't, but I'm sure you get the intention) and I don't see any effort from Adobe fixing these major issues. There isn't even a FB JIRA any more.

Make sure to raise your voice in the FB forums: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5147502#5147502

Better yet, file as much support tickets as you can (that's what I've been doing lately). I'm pretty sure that will raise their attention.

YopSolo

Is it possible to use ASC 2.0 whith flash builder 4.6 ?

i don't want to "upgrade" to 4.7 because there is no "creation mode" in 4.7 :/

Mistakenness

No, I don't think so.

osro

"i don't want to "upgrade" to 4.7 because there is no "creation mode" in 4.7 :/"

You mean "design view" for Flex? ASC2.0 does not support Flex.
So you are forced to use the old compiler with Flex.

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