How to edit application descriptor in Flash Builder 4.7

Question

I am trying to migrate my AIR mobile project from FlashDevelop to Adobe Flash Builder 4.7. In FlashDevelop I have my AIR application descriptor application.xml. When I created a new Flash Builder project it generated a new application descriptor (Mail-app.xml) in the /src folder, and put it into /bin-debug. However, when I try and copy the configuration from my old application descriptor to the new one, the Main-app.xml in the /bin-debug folder remains the same. I tried cleaning project, but it immediately recreates some sort of default application descriptor in /bin-debug. Where and what should I change so the changes will be picked by Flash Builder?

Answer 1

There should be an application descriptor in your src folder. That is the one you make changes to. The one in bin-debug is a generated copy of that one.

Answer 2

The problem was that Flash Builder puts the generated application descriptor in the same folder as the main application file. When I created the project, the descriptor was created in the root, as the generated Main.as went to the default package. However, when I copied my source file, the main application file was in a com.mycompany.myproject package; so, Flash Builder generated the new application descriptor and put it there, and I missed it. Problem solved.