Adobe AIR vs Canva

• Smooth transition from Flash/Actionscript 3, and ability to port older Flash projects to AIR with little to no code changes.
• Ability to integrate custom and third party native extensions (ANE files) provides access to hardware and other APIs otherwise only exposed via native java/obj-c/swift.
• Ability to code and test within a single IDE (Flash / Flash Builder / Flash Develop) makes it extremely easy to set up a project and development environment. The ability to use the Flash timeline is a huge advantage when doing animation.
• The abundance of AS3/Flash examples and tutorials online provide a vast resource compared to other hybrid solutions.

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• Great and easy to use templates for everything!
• Beautiful illustrations to use for free (with paid subscription)
• Group collaboration on projects. Easily save and send for comments from the team
• Branding kit so you never have to search for fonts or colors, they're always right there

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• 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.

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• Pro Subscription: If you have team members added, then you have to opt for a pro-subscription for the entire team, and not individual.
• There should be a functionality, that could differentiate between and enable it.
• Canva has moved some really useful feature under paid subscription, like resize the current post to different direction, or to download the graphic with transparent direction.
• It's an internal decision, but as a user, these features are pretty basic and should have continued to be free.
• Canva can introduce cheaper paid plans that can include some of the Pro features that are frequently used, even if they don't include that complete photo/video library.

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• Disney Interactive ended up ultimately having to pivot drastically to switch entirely over to Unity for our tech stack due to lack of support for Air. During this transition, we lost a huge amount of good talent, and were forced to shutter many projects.
• Prior to the switch to Unity, Air allowed us to quickly port several web games to mobile after overhauling the graphics to be bitmap rather than vector based.
• Air allowed a small number of our developers to be able to transition to mobile before the elimination of all web flash positions.

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• Empowers our team to make slick, branded materials without tying up the graphic designer's time or requiring expensive software
• The numerous templates make creative design easy and quick
• Canva saves all of our designs, so we don't have to hunt down old files on the server

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