Adobe AIR

Adobe AIR

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Adobe AIR	Score 7.8 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Adobe AIR Jon Marr Owner Chose Adobe AIR Originally, Adobe AIR was the only game in town, and its blend of flexibility in platforms it could publish to (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), ease of use, and familiarity made it the clear choice. Now Adobe no longer supports it, and we’ve found the transition to Harmon unworkable … Incentivized Helpful? MR Marilyn Rodriguez Owner/Art Director Chose Adobe AIR We already use all the other Adobe products so it was an easy choice to use AIR for our programming type of programs. As we used it more, we found that it was very simple to learn/the learning curve was not very steep at all. We honestly didn't look at any other options, … Incentivized Helpful? JM John Mihaila Software Manager Chose Adobe AIR Adobe AIR does not support Windows phones but works well on both Android and Apple iOS. It enables developers to build and deploy good quality applications to mobile platforms for a majority of mobile users and allows developers to build working prototypes in a relatively … Incentivized Helpful? YI Yosef Ing Director of Social Media Chose Adobe AIR There are definitely other platforms out there that are awesome but Adobe AIR is just what our other developers were used to using but we do have some success. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Cookson Junior Animator Chose Adobe AIR Generally stacks up fairly negatively, program definitely has its place, I appreciate what it can allow but now most desktop apps are fine enough as browser based experiences or for personal use mobile is the way to go. Air isn't the best environment for that. Incentivized Helpful? William Alvarez Inside Sales Support Associate Chose Adobe AIR Appcelerator is open source and is very good, but my company wanted something more business-oriented and with more formal support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Adobe AIR Originally, Adobe Air was a great choice for us to build mobile titles from prior web titles when compared to tools such as native iOS with cocos2d. We were able to get games stood up much faster than our competition and out to market to make money. That said, as Unity improved … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe AIR Adobe AIR is more friendly to a serious programmer because it supports core programming methodology in a way that Unity does not. Both AIR and Unity have a hidden underlying layer of event management code that can add performance costs. However, Unity is more friendly to a … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Gorence Software Developer Chose Adobe AIR Since Adobe AIR can be used with the Flash IDE, there are not many other solutions with such a robust toolset. The ability to import layered photoshop files directly onto the stage, and then ability to animate and create movieclips within that IDE is an extremely valuable … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Multiple platforms Pro App development Pro Mobile app
Top Cons	Minus Not supported Minus Lot of resources Minus Vector graphics

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User Ratings
	Adobe AIR
Likelihood to Recommend	5.7 (9 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)

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	Adobe AIR
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe I would recommend [Adobe AIR] because it works very well, I just wish there were more resources out there on it to help the onboarding. Incentivized YI Yosef Ing Director of Social Media Read full review
Pros	Adobe Adobe AIR supports a lot of commonly needed features for mobile app development. It is fairly stable and consistent once you learn how to use it. It is cross-platform and is supported by some useful third-party plugins. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Adobe Over the course of months/years, various security exploits and other issues are discovered and patched in AIR, often requiring you to rebuild and resubmit mobile apps to the various storefronts. This happens often enough that it's worth mentioning as a major con. While development on Adobe AIR seems to be fairly constant, there is very little communication between the community and Adobe regarding the future and general support of AIR. The track record of Flash (and particularly Flash Mobile) does not inspire much confidence that Adobe intends to support Flash/AIR for years to come. Adobe AIR does not seem to perform as well (in terms of raw performance, memory usage, framerates, responsiveness, etc.) as other hybrid solutions for certain tasks. For example using shaders tends to be experimental still, and graphic/animation intensive projects often require the use of third party frameworks such as Starling. Incentivized Thomas Gorence Software Developer Read full review
Usability	Adobe Although Adobe AIR is just an SDK without an actual "UI" it's commonly used within Flash, Flash Builder, or FlashDevelop. Considering the integration with Flash IDE, there are very few tools that can compete with its features. Incentivized Thomas Gorence Software Developer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Adobe Originally, Adobe AIR was the only game in town, and its blend of flexibility in platforms it could publish to (PC, Mac, iOS, Android), ease of use, and familiarity made it the clear choice. Now Adobe no longer supports it, and we’ve found the transition to Harmon unworkable for us. Incentivized Jon Marr Owner Read full review
Return on Investment	Adobe 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. Incentivized JM John Mihaila Software Manager Read full review
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