Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 - Manual (Page 826)

Publishing AIR for Android applications
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Create an Adobe AIR for Android file
Preview or publish an AIR for Android application
Creating AIR for Android applications
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Beginning with Flash Professional CS5.5, you can publish content for Adobe® AIR™ for Android, a mobile device operating system from Google.
This article describes configuring the AIR for Android publish settings in Flash Professional. For complete information about developing Adobe
AIR™ applications, see
Building Adobe AIR Applications .
For information about hardware and software requirements for desktop and mobile AIR applications, see AIR system requirements .
For complete AIR developer documentation see the Adobe AIR Reference .
Videos and tutorials
The following video tutorials describe how to create AIR™ for Android applications in Flash Pro:
Video: Flash Professional CS5.5 - Publishing an AIR for Android app (6:13, Adobe TV)
Video: AIR for Android - Part 1: Set up your development environment (GotoAndLearn.com, 18:49)
Video: AIR for Android - Part 2: Access the camera on an Android device (GotoAndLearn.com, 13:35)
Video: AIR for Android GPU Acceleration (GotoAndLearn.com, 15:55)
Blog/Video: One Application, Five Screens (Christian Cantrell, Adobe blogs)
Article: Developing a Mobile Application with Flash (John Hattan, gamedev.net)
(AIR 3.7 only) Packaging applications with only captive runtime (Android)
With AIR 3.7, packaging of AIR applications for Android in any target will embed the AIR runtime. This would help in improving the user-experience
as there would be no need to download the AIR runtime separately. A side-effect would however be that there would be an increase in app size of
around 9MB.
Flash Professional displays warnings if an AIR for Android application was packaged using the Shared Runtime option.
Create an Adobe AIR for Android file
You can create Adobe AIR for Android documents in Flash using the File > New command. You can also create an ActionScript® 3.0 FLA file and
convert it to an AIR for Android file through the Publish Settings dialog box.
To create an AIR for Android file, do one of the following:
Choose AIR for Android from the Welcome screen or the New Document dialog box (File > New).
Open an existing FLA file and convert it to an AIR for Android file. Select AIR for Android from the Target menu in the Publish Settings dialog
box (File > Publish Settings).
Preview or publish an AIR for Android application
You can preview a Flash AIR for Android SWF file as it would appear in the AIR application window. Previewing is useful when you want to see
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