#1 most frequent
United States of America
76.0%165 installations of 217
What is Adobe AIR?
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#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.6%10 installations of 217
#3 most frequent
India
2.8%6 installations of 217
Adobe AIR
Pros
- Saves and stores documents and keeps organized
- Crossplatform compatibility
- Can build without code
- Applications and secure and fast
Cons
- There are not a lot of resources out there, even from Adobe
- Not used a lot so not a lot of integrations
- Difficult to learn at first
Most Important Features
- Interface
- Easy builds
- Offline usage and document access
- Reliable
Return on Investment
- It has helped us build better applications and quicker
Was Once Great…
Pros
- Flexible Deployment
- Solid API with AS3
- Once had strong user base
Cons
- No longer supported by Adobe
- Dwindling user base
- Lack of new functionality
Most Important Features
- Cross-Platform Publishing
- Familiar AS3 API
- Easy to work with
Return on Investment
- A cost effective way to publish to many platforms from one code base
- Didn’t have to retrain in new APIs
- Could publish to both iOS and Android
Alternatives Considered
Xamarin
Other Software Used
Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, GitLab
Adobe AIR: A good solution for cross-platform deployment
Pros
- Runs on Windows, Mac OS, Android and Apple iOS.
- Allows developers to use tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Flash Professional and even text editor to develop an app.
- Adobe AIR runtime and AIR SDK are free.
Cons
- Android widgets are currently not supported in AIR.
- Not all Adobe Creative Suite applications are compatible with AIR.
- No support for desktop Linux.
Most Important Features
- Cross-platform functionality.
- Integrates with some Adobe Creative Suite apps.
- Supported by third-party plug-ins.
Return on Investment
- Allows easy porting of functionality and look and feel to many diverse platforms.
- Shorten development and deployment time.
- Reduced training and support costs by re-using common widgets.
Alternatives Considered
Visual Studio IDE
Other Software Used
Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe Animate (formerly Flash)
Great tool that I wish they would bring back in it's previous iteration!
Pros
- Easy to learn
- Works efficiently
- Seamless integration
- Adobe support (when it was still being updated)
Cons
- Would have been nice to keep it supported
- No updates in a long time
- Not many tutorials on advanced features
- Can no longer update it anywhere
Most Important Features
- Adobe reliability
- Easy to learn for our freelancers
- Free
Return on Investment
- Enabled us to take on some new projects
- Was very little ROI as it was a free application for most of it's life
Other Software Used
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe PhotoShop
AIRing my grievances
Pros
- Easy to develop for, skills for programs such as Adobe Animate and basic backend translate well to the program.
- Stable across multiple different platforms.
- Can get a working prototype really quickly
Cons
- Adobe Air applications are taxing on a user's CPU, especially considering how simple a lot of the apps are.
- Updating and installing Air based applications is very user unfriendly, often asks for updates that are aggressively pushed to the front of the user.
- As HTML 5 has gotten more and more sophisticated, for basic things a lot of times browser-based apps make a lot more sense.
Return on Investment
- It's a safe environment, great for entry-level programmers to get started and show their ideas.
- Easy to get started, build and iterate.
- However, at a certain point, Air applications can become unwieldy so for any serious project. We often would rather build it all outside of a middleware environment.
Alternatives Considered
Adobe Flash, canvas and CreateJS
Other Software Used
Adobe Flash, Zoho Creator, HP OpenView