Texts dont show on release build for an adobe air mobile app with localization support

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I am building a mobile application with localization support. The app supports three languages and it is targeted for android and ios. Everything works fine for debug builds; i can test everything for all the languages. When i do a release build, all the text on the app disappear! Buttons show with no text. If i change some of them to no use resourcemanager, the changed ones show the text. Does anyone knows why would this happen? I am using Flashbuilder 4.6, Apache Flex 4.11 air 13 beta.

Thanks.

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airadobeflash-builder
are you embedding your fonts in the App? - JK Patel
No, I am not embedding fonts. - Michael Tarimo
1. Which are the fonts you are using ? 2. If you are not embedding the fonts, then are the fonts installed on your device? - Adrian Pirvulescu
I am not using any special font in the app, just stylings for the size, weight and colors, here and there. - Michael Tarimo
its trick, not to solve the answer 1.build a app with just a single label, check in both(dev, release) - JK Patel

2 Answers

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To resolve this issue you must embedded font in you app. its a common scenario say when your system have XYZ font, so your app in your system give proper output, so there have different case say someone have a font so not got an issue but someone may be not installed font in his system at that time what our application do????? simple nothing. so i have solution for this question is to embedded a font in your app. several way to embedded font in your app

first way(in css)

@font-face { src: url("location"); fontFamily: alias; [fontStyle: normal | italic | oblique] ; [fontWeight: normal | bold | heavy] ; [embedAsCFF:true | false] ; [advancedAntiAliasing: true | false]; } .customStyle { fontFamily: myFontFamily; fontSize: 24; skinClass: ClassReference("spark.skins.mobile.TextAreaSkin"); }

second way(in Main app)

<fx:Style> @namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";

    @font-face { 
        src: url("../assets/MyriadWebPro.ttf"); 
        fontFamily: myFontFamily; 
        embedAsCFF: false; 
    }       
    .customStyle {
        fontFamily: myFontFamily;
        fontSize: 24;
        skinClass: ClassReference("spark.skins.mobile.TextAreaSkin");
    }   
</fx:Style>

for more help on embedding a font in your app go to http://divillysausages.com/blog/as3_font_embedding_masterclass

may this will help you

Regards JK Patel

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I have finally figured out the problem, it was a bug in my code! There was no default value for ResourceManager localeChain on the first initialization of the app. I was not seeing this problem on my testing devices as the app had saved the localechain value in the device local storage. Every time i do a new development build and install on my devices, it would read the saved localechain on the first initialization. Thank you Patel