Author Archive: Romil Mittal

Using release swf for publishing AIR applications

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Romil Mittal | Comments (1)

Adobe tools like Flash Builder allow you to compile actionscript sources of your application and then package all the swf content and assets as .air, .ipa, .apk and native package formats.

This post is meant to stress on the importance of using Release version of swf file for packaging when you intend to publish it on an application store.

Why should I care to create the release version of a swf?

There are two major advantages of using the release version for publishing applications:

  • Application Size – The debug version of a swf contains lot of extra information which is required for debugging during development. As a result, the size of debug version of a swf is always more than the corresponding release version. Continue reading…

Versioning in Flash Runtime (-swf-version)

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Romil Mittal | Comments (2)

AIR 3 Beta got released on Adobe Labs last week, providing a great opportunity to try out some of the exciting new enhancements that have been made by the team. Christian’s post provides the quick steps to get started with the AIR 3 Beta SDK.

In the “Additional compiler arguments” box, you need to add “-swf-version=13″ to make use of the new APIs introduced in AIR 3. So one question you might have is that if you are already specifying the namespace in your AIR application descriptor as 3.0, then what is the need of specifying more versioning information? Let me share with you some background about versioning in Flash Runtime.

SWF Versioning

Starting with AIR 2.6 release (and Flash Player 10.2), we changed our SWF versioning approach. Earlier we used to increase the SWF version only with major release of Flash Player. For eg. Continue reading…