Nick, The big difference is the UI layer... There is no Flash Player distribution any more. There is a bundled FP installation that can sit inside Chrome, but it relies on Chrome to do its UI..
It became a big pain in the rear to continue to maintain compatibility with all the different variants of X11 (what are there now -- 6 of them?!), plus all the wacky things that graphic cards do. When dealing with something like the Flash Player, you can't leverage a lot of the native UI that is exposed to you by the WM, so you end up drawing everything by hand. Adobe decided at one time that it wasn't worth all the debugging and testing for such a small portion of the population. This was the same population that was railing on Adobe for only distributing blobs instead of the source code (something they are unwilling and unable to do due to 3rd party licenses software). Android is a "closed" environment. It offers one way for applications to draw to the screen -- and generally it is the same for ALL Android based devices. Display drivers are obfuscated from the developer, along with all the other things that a developer would need to worry about in an X11 environment. -Nick On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Nick Collins <ndcoll...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe this is just my ignorance of the nuances involved, but since Android > is pretty much linux under the hood, what is the difficulty for Adobe in > maintaining a linux distribution of AIR? I understand it may necessitate > limiting it's support to certain distros, but that would be better than > nothing, would it not? > > Nick > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:45 AM, aYo ~ <a...@binitie.com> wrote: > > > Gracias Saleh :) > > > > ~a~ > > www.ayobinitie.com > > http://mrbinitie.blogspot.com > > > > > > On 29 April 2013 11:43, Saleh Abdulawal <saleh.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Yes it did, Thanks to "aYo ~", the same steps goes for IntelliJ Idea > > > Ultimate 12 > > > > > > here are the steps explained in this post with snap shots: > > > > > > > > > http://saleh360.blogspot.com/2013/04/up-and-running-with-apache-flex-on.html > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:24 PM, aYo ~ <a...@binitie.com> wrote: > > > > > > > this worked for me and it did not require setting up the SDK in /opt. > > > This > > > > was for FDT. I guess that's the beauty of Linux, flexibility > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://mrbinitie.blogspot.com/2013/02/using-apache-flex-49-sdk-with-fdt5-in.html > > > > > > > > ~a~ > > > > www.ayobinitie.com > > > > http://mrbinitie.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > > > On 29 April 2013 10:22, Alexander Doroshko < > > > > alexander.doros...@jetbrains.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 26.04.2013 23:11, Saleh Abdulawal wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Here is the Steps: > > > > >> > > > > >> 1- Download the Windows Binary and Copy to opt + chown > > > > >> 2- Download Flash Player Debuger 11 and place it inside the sdk > > folder > > > > >> under "Player/11/" > > > > >> 3- in sdk/frameworks/ backup "flex-config.xml" and replace it with > > > > >> attached file > > > > >> 4- Download and Isntall IntelliJ Idea Ultimate Edition & Install > it > > > > >> 5- Create a New Project using the SDK > > > > >> 6- Select the Project and Press F4 > > > > >> 7- in "Global Libraries" Locate the SDK Folder and add it > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > what for is step 7? > > > > > Flex SDK should be configured at Project Structure | SDKs (not > Global > > > > > Libraries) and set to the Flash build configuration at Project > > > Structure > > > > | > > > > > Modules | [your Flash module] | [your Flash build configuration > > > subnode] > > > > | > > > > > Dependencies tab. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Alexander Doroshko > > > > > IntelliJ IDEA Flash Team Lead > > > > > http://www.jetbrains.com > > > > > "Develop with pleasure!" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > All the Best, > > > > > > Saleh A. aziz > > > Senior Web Application Specialist > > > Mobile: 00966-56-444-00-98 > > > E-mail: saleh.a...@gmail.com > > > Web : http://saleh360.blogspot.com > > > Li : http://sa.linkedin.com/in/salehawal > > > Tw : https://twitter.com/saleh_awal > > > Fb : http://www.facebook.com/saleh.awal > > > > > >
