Upgrading your app to AIR 1.5
Monday, 17 November 2008In attempting to upgrade the AirShows application to use the new AIR 1.5 runtime, I tried to simply change the target SDK to Flex 3.2 in the project settings. However, this was giving me all sorts of strange errors, from not launching to displaying the following error dialog when trying to launch the application in debug mode:
On a hunch, I checked the application configuration file AirShows-app.xml file and noticed that it uses the following namespace declaration:
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0">
Since the Flex 3.2 SDK actually expects to be building AIR 1.5 applications, I had a feeling that this was the root cause of my problem. A quick change in the namespace to the following solved my problem:
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5">
Thankfully I didn’t waste a whole lot of time trying to figure this out, but I do wish Adobe had provided slightly more useful error messages.
