14 DAY TRIAL // Adobe has just updated its Android application with a few important new features and improvements. One of the major additions to Adobe Air is support for Android 4.4 KitKat platform.
Although the feature has already been added, those who experience issue of any kind on their KitKat devices are advised to offer their feedback.
Two new features have been included in this update as well. More details on these new features are available below:
- Mobile Workers (concurrency): introduced as a beta feature in AIR 3.9, we've continued to improve this feature based on your feedback for its official release in Air 4;
- Support for native resources access by R* mechanism in native extension: currently, to use the native Android resources in the Android Native Extension one has to use getResourceID() API while typically to access the resource IDs developers use the R.* mechanism.
"Air 4.0 onwards, apps developers will be able to access the resources by R.* mechanism. All the dependencies need to be specified in platform.xml as following and all the dependencies and resources to be packaged in the ANE."
You can now download Adobe Air for Android for free via Google Play Store. Keep in mind that the application should be fully compatible with most devices running Android 2.3 and up.