Combined version of the Flex 4.6 and AIR 3.5 SDK for the lazy ones.

Hello You all,

I’m sure about this time you’ve already heard that Adobe’s AIR 3.5 SDK and Flash Player 11.5 are out of beta and ready to download for production work, if You have been staying up to date You know that in order to use the new features of AIR and the Flash Player runtimes you have to merge it with the Flex SDK and then add/remplace the playerglobal.swc file and unless you have a tool like FDT IDE that makes this process less cumbersome by doing the merge for you with a single click, but when you’re not using FDT you need to go and use the terminal of some other tool for merging.

So in order to save You the effort I’m uploading a combined version of the Flex 4.6 and AIR 3.5 SDK so all you have to do is download the zip file uncompress add it to your IDE of choice SDK’s path and start playing with AIR 3.5 and Flash Player 11.5.

Download the Combined version of the Flex 4.6 and AIR 3.5 SDK

Cheers,
Dave

The Combined version of the Flex 4.6 and AIR 3.5 SDK for the lazy ones. by David Gamez, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Mexico License.

Posted by Dave Gamez @ 7 November 2012 30 comments

Tags : air 3.5 , air sdk , flash player 11.5 , flex 4.6 , FLEX SDK

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Nov 7, 2012
8:51 am

#1 Devin :

Thanks Dave, I’ll definately download this, since it’s a bit too much trouble for Adobe to do it.

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Nov 7, 2012
10:23 am

#2 swfgeek :

You’re welcome Devin!

Nov 7, 2012
11:15 am

#3 LMAO :

I thought I just had to overwrite Flex 4.6 with the latest version of the AIR SDK and that’s it. So I was doing it wrong all this time?

What are those extra steps needed? (in case I need to do the same for the next AIR version).

Thanks for this package!

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Nov 7, 2012
11:51 am

#4 swfgeek :

If You’re working on a Windows OS overwriting is fine in Mac there’s some extra steps to be done (because overwrite actually erases all the contents of the folder to ve overwritten) here’s more info about it: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/how-overlay-air-sdk-flex-sdk.html

Nov 8, 2012
3:15 am

#5 jonnysparkplugs :

This wont unzip using 7zip or winrar, i’ve tried re-downloading it. Anyone else have any luck?

Nov 8, 2012
4:08 am

#6 Skeddio :

I agree. I have downloaded it 2 times, but the archive is impossible to unzip…

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Nov 8, 2012
2:21 pm

#7 swfgeek :

@Skeddio @jonnysparkplugs

Thanks for pointing it out, just recompressed and reuploaded the file, should be working ok now.

Cheers,
Dave

Nov 9, 2012
5:39 am

#8 Germain LECOURTOIS (Imarkahann) :

Hi !

I just merge my AIR3.5 SDK with Flex 4.6 ( Mac OS )
No problems when I did it with Air 3.2 and 3.3 but here with 3.5 …

“Cannot find ‘air-config.xml’. Please choose another SDK.”

( FDT 5.6 64bit Mac OS )

Any idea ?

Thanks

Germain

Nov 9, 2012
5:45 am

#9 Germain LECOURTOIS (Imarkahann) :

Oh… Oh … I think something goes wrong in the fil merge on Finder … Try with Merge sdk tool in FDT …

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Nov 9, 2012
5:53 am

#10 swfgeek :

Hello Germain,

In Finder using Terminal a “sudo tar jxvf AIR34_mac_sdk_XXXXXX.tbz2″ will do, If not the merge tool in FDT saves You trouble, I did it both ways and my final SDK was fine.

Cheers,
Dave

Nov 9, 2012
5:55 am

#11 Germain LECOURTOIS (Imarkahann) :

Thanks for your advice,

So, Merge Tool do the right job

Author

Nov 9, 2012
6:09 am

#12 swfgeek :

You’re welcome

Nov 9, 2012
11:06 am

#13 Vinicius :

How update in Flash BUilder 4.7 ?

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Nov 9, 2012
11:26 am

#14 swfgeek :

Hello Vinicius,

I’m not a Flash Builder user myself and haven’t tried Flash Builder 4.7 but this forum thread should get you started:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4734285

Cheers,
Dave

Nov 12, 2012
4:31 am

#15 Flesher :

Not working on Mac.

Nov 12, 2012
5:19 am

#16 Yorick :

Hi,

I downloaded this and wanted to use this in Eclipse. I get the following error on running my project with the new AIR:
invalid application descriptor: Unknown namespace: http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.5

When I revert back to AIR 3.4, everything works fine. I am quite sure I set all project settings correctly. Any thoughts?

Nov 12, 2012
5:45 am

#17 Yorick :

Ok, somehow this got fixed when I downloaded AIR from the Adobe site and then manually merged it with flex.
So it must be something in this particular merge… very odd.

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Nov 12, 2012
3:52 pm

#18 swfgeek :

Hello,

Yorick and Flesher, I haven’t encountered that problem I’m using the very same merged SDK in my projects ( I’m working on Mac OS 10.8) and it’s working fine, i also double checked the .zip file isn’t corrupted, here’s a screenshot of a simple test to check AIR and Flash Player version.

Flex 4.6 & AIR 3.5 SDKs merge test.

Cheers,
Dave

Nov 14, 2012
4:58 pm

#19 Gabe :

I kept getting “process terminated unexpectedly” errors when trying to publish to AIR Mobile or Desktop (on Mac, Flash Builder 4.6). I finally just downloaded the SDK myself and following the instructions at http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/how-overlay-air-sdk-flex-sdk.html. Everything worked after that. Thanks for trying to save me the time though!

Nov 22, 2012
4:09 pm

#20 Cozzbie :

Wondering how I can use this to update my AIR version from 2.0 to 3.5 in Flash CS5…any help will be much appreciated

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Nov 24, 2012
12:13 am

#21 swfgeek :

Hello Cozzbie,

I have a previous tutorial on how to make Flash Player 11 & AIR 3 Release Candidates work in Flash Professional CS5.5.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Dave

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Nov 27, 2012
7:37 pm

#22 swfgeek :

Hello Yorick,

I forgot to say that You need to double check the Adobe AIR project’s application descriptor
file is using the correct namespace for the AIR 3.5 SDK so You don’t get namespace errors.

Cheers,
Dave

Dec 7, 2012
8:08 am

#23 Sebastian :

awesome thanks buddy!

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Dec 7, 2012
8:16 am

#24 Dave Gamez :

You’re welcome Sebastian!

Cheers,
Dave

Jan 8, 2013
2:58 am

#25 WilliamX :

Downloaded and corrupted. Running Mac OS X 10.7.5 And tryied with unarchiver and iZip, no luck.

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Jan 9, 2013
8:17 am

#26 Dave Gamez :

Hello William,

Will check the zip file for any errors and reupload it asap!

Cheers,
Dave

Jan 14, 2013
10:55 pm

#27 edward :

i tried using the combined folder on my macintosh flash builder 4.7; when I hook it in, all the “package” statements in my code get compiler errors, and it doesnt’ work at all. I tried changing the namespace to 3.5, but it says “invalid namespace”. I don’t know why this doesn’t work. I curse adobe for not going the tiny extra step of posting a merged folder so we don’t have to struggle with this!