During the last few months, several device manufacturers have released Intel Atom based mobile phones and tablets. Momentum has been developing in the market for x86-based Android tablets, and with Intel committing that there will be 40 million tablets shipping by the end of the 2014, we knew the time was right to deliver native AIR support.
We have been listening to our AIR developers and we are very excited to announce support for packaging of AIR applications for Intel x86 based Android devices. This support will allow AIR developers to directly target the x86 Android platform, providing the best performance possible from their AIR applications.
With this new support, developers will be able to package their applications in captive mode. This capability will soon be available in the AIR SDK on Adobe Labs, so check back soon! The final version will be made available in one of our upcoming major releases.
The Adobe AIR platform is stronger than ever. Today, Adobe AIR powers more than 50,000 unique mobile applications on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. These applications have been installed more than a billion times by users across the world. By adding support for x86 based devices, our developers will be able to reach out to even more users, thereby making their applications succeed in this highly fragmented space.
Update (June 10th) – Android x86 support is now available in AIR 14 release.
Update (July 8th) – Before publishing x86 version of your AIR app on Play Store, please refer to this article to understand versioning.
Comments
That’s really good news, thanks for taking prompt action on this feature request and letting us know, Romil.
Thank you Team Air – we’ve got large deployments of Mobile Air apps that we developed for our customers and we were sweating bullets about this one. This helps us tremendously in terms of continuing to build for, and recommending our customers to stick to Adobe Air platform.
Wonderful news! Thanks Adobe
This is great news, also lots of exciting announcements at the Flash Online Conference ! Improved Stage 3D, AGAL2, new packager etc
Now we need windows phone support
At this moment WP market looks like not growing. It’s paused… or growing but very slowly. Also they demonstrating own power in switching to Android partially. This mean WP is so ugly and not popular, so in the future they will kick off WP OS. Developing Adobe Air for Windows Phone – it’s just time wasting.
Also in near future we will receive WP 9 and where can be WP 8? )
This is great news. Thanks for the continuing support. Please keep the communication coming though. After months of complaints it will be great to finally have a fix for this issue.
Awesome! When will it be available for download?
Hooray this is great news!!! Probably my favorite part about this news is learning that Adobe actually reads it’s bug base! Thank you adobe, but keep on reading!!
We need support for Windows Mobile Now!
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/07/windows-phone-surpasses-blackberry-in-the-us-despite-flat-market-share/
Windows Phone > Blackberry
Wow – fabulous news! Great work guys!
Thank you so much Adobe for your continued support of this amazing SDK! This is really awesome!
Thank´s Romi! That is very good news.
ooh! Love the AIR! Thank you Adobe!
Very, very good news.
For me that was the number 1 issue (the second 1 with Windows Phone support :D).
Thank you Adobe.
Great news! I won’t fall asleep today!:D
Awesome! Thanks, Team AIR!
Great news! Keep it up team AIR.
Will Adobe AIR for x86 Android support hardware video acceleration (using Intel’s libva librariers) for best video presentation ?
Yess! God is back.
Thank you Adobe! very good news!
Awesome! Thanks, Team AIR! this is great news.
Great news, thank you!
Thank you Adobe ! this is very very good news. I will continue developing Air. Your efforts means a lot for us developers.
The other thing I really love is to pay for flash technologies. In this way we can support you too and be sure you will continue supporting of Flash/Air technologies and developers.
Thanks Again!
Great news.
Thanks Adobe.
Thanks AIR team, glad to see you are aware of what we need to be successful.
Will this version of AIR support / enable Flash content to play within Webkit? Will it be updated to also enable all HTML5 constructs to play within Webkit? (If not, a list of supported/unsupported elements would be useful) Thanks!
Thanks for the Easter good news!
Adobe AIR Team rocks!
This is really great news! Thanks Adobe AIR team!
Thank you Adobe Air Team. This great news – that restores my faith in AIR
Great Great Great news… Keep it up Adobe…
I specially like the new that “Adobe recognizes that Flash is good for more than just Gaming and Video” HELL YA!
i agree with you
Thank you Adobe. That’s great news.
Great news,
Thank you for listening to your community.
Thank you Adobe. Wonderful news
This is great news.
Can you explain the changes to expect in the way apps and native extensions are packaged ? Do we still produce only one APK ? Do native extensions need to include a new Android-x86 platform ?
Bravo!
Great news!
Thanks Adobe.
great addition, thx a lot !
After 5 months… and when this pack are download ?
Very nice I need it.
Good job Adobe but it will take long time for you to win the confidence of flash community because it was you who create this messup all around you could have keep silent on flash player as others did for other web plugin. Well let see how long you keep AIR alive so far seems good
Great! Thank you!
Please vote to have Bug 3744843 evaluated by Adobe!! Thank you!
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3744843
Great! Keep up the awesome work on AIR!
good…!
So good……..!
That’s great news! Thank you for listening!
Is there any announcement yet on when the Beta version will actually be available from Adobe Labs. Having waited months for a fix with no updates, to have an imminent fix for Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 performance issues but no delivery date is leading to a minor F5 addiction on the Adobe Labs page. We understand that Beta releases are “when they are ready”, but a steer as to when that is likely to happen would be very appreciated.
I totally agree with you, it is unfortunate to depend on adobe for certain applications …
Great! Thanks Adobe!
Absolutely flipping amazing!
Thanks!
No news on Windows Mobile support? Due to movements with Nokia releasing an Android mobile, are we expecting MS to go over to Android?
Any latest thoughts from Adobe would help us inform our clients and our strategy for supporting the Windows Mobile platform natively.
Will this app work on Samsung Galaxy S4?