Use Adobe Air 3.3 SDK with Flash Builder

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Adobe Air SDK V3.3 was finally released june 8th 2012 and can be downloaded here: http://www.adobe.com/products/air.html

Now I am trying to use it within Flash Builder V4.6 by 'overlaying' the Adobe Air 3.3 SDK over a copy of the Flex V4.6.0 SDK in /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4.6/sdks/4.6.0/ Once I try to configure the overlayed SDK the Flash Builder complains that 'Directory does not contain a Flex SDK'

Anybody an idea on how to successfully get Flash Builder to use Adobe Air V3.3 SKD?

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For MAC users the best way is to copy the 4.6.0 folder and rename it in "4.6.0 + 3.3" Then extract the AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2 file, go in it and rsync the content to the new sdk folder.

rsync ./* -avl /Applications/Adobe\ Flash\ Builder\ 4.6/sdks/4.6.0\ +\ 3.3/
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How to update Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 to AIR 3.5 SDK

Using these guidelines and elsewhere pages, I managed to update my installation. Thank you all, below are the details.

Download AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2 from http://www.adobe.com/special/products/air/sdk/

Decompress & untar the files (double click will do).

Navigate to /Applications/Adobe\ Flash\ Builder\ 4.6/sdks

Copy the existing 4.6.0 sdk folder and rename it as you wish. (e.g. 4.6.0_AIR3.5)

Navigate to the extracted AdobeAIRSDK folder and use rsync:

rsync ./* -avl /Applications/Adobe\ Flash\ Builder\ 4.6/sdks/4.6.0_AIR3.5/

Check these files (inside frameworks folder) for references to the old player and version entries:

  • air-config.xml
  • airmobile-config.xml
  • flex-config.xml

Update xml files:

<target-player>11.5</target-player>
<swf-version>18</swf-version>

In Flash Builder go to Preferences > Flash Builder > Installed Flex SDKs, add the new 4.6.0_AIR3.5 path, give it a name and make it the default sdk if you wish.

Don't forget to update your project xml namespace:

<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.5">
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merge in terminal tar jxvf AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2 Replace AdobeAIRSDK.tbz2 with the path to the downloaded AIR SDK tarball eg /User/XXXX/Downloads Add the folder for the new player in SDK/frameworks/libs.player and call it 11.3 where you see 11.1 copy the playerglobal11_3.swc from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html and dont forget to update the argument in flash builder to include swf-version=16 to get all the goodies And change the xml to target 3.3

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if you use a mac ! do NOT overwrite the folder. it will not just copy new files, it will do a complete replace of the sdk folder. So please enter each folder and copy/replace each file. Looks strange but this is how "mac" works.

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