Would just have liked if Adobe gave us more warning. I think it's a bit early to stop supporting iPhone 5, 5c, and iPad 4G, but I can live with it if necessary.
Unlike Adobe's past behavior of making announcements ahead of time for big changes like this one, this one caught us by surprise and for that, I'm a bit disappointed. But can we adjust to this issue? Sure. We always do. Apple threw us some curveballs lately, like Assets.car, and the non-public API bit, and somehow when the dust settles we're OK. It appears that this issue--like those two--will just make our jobs harder, but I've read posts that appear to prove we can upgrade our existing apps to use 64bit only without a new bundleId so the main impact of this move appears to be only to alienate those still on the fringe devices that are no longer supported. I'm not that worried about it. It's a corner case. Our customers can upgrade. Of course we plan to get another 6 months out of AIR 29 or more. We don't see any immediate need to upgrade to AIR 30 so we'll get some more time supporting iPhone 5, 5c, and iPad 4G. But there is another issue. I'm not happy about having to keep my AIR 27 SDK around for development in my IDE (adhoc deployment to USB dongled device), and then change back to 29 for release. If Adobe would have just fixed their breakage of adhoc deployment by refraining to add beta-reports-active entitlement key then all our IDEs would be able to just work without jumping through hoops with command line scripts to remove the entitlement and re-sign the app every time we try to debug the app. But we'll survive. This is not the end of the world. But definitely visit the thread and voice your vote to continue supporting 32/64 bit hybrid apps for another version or three of AIR and let us know exactly when we have to make this change. Cheers, On May 7, 2018, at 8:59 AM, bilbosax <waspenc...@comcast.net> wrote: I thought I might hear back from more people here because I assumed a lot of people here played with AIR. If you do, I really invite you to come to the Adobe forum and voice your opinions. This post was recently made by a guy named Flipline and it scared the socks off of me. If you have apps on the App Store and are using AIR, you really need to read this: "A larger issue is that using AIR 30, we can not even submit updates for ANY of our apps for ANY devices, whether they have 64-bit iPads or not: Apple does not let you make changes to UIRequiredCapabilities for any reason in an update, even if you change MinimumOSVersion to limit it to iOS 11 it will still be rejected because UIRequiredCapabilities can not be changed after an app is launched. This means we lose support for 100% of our users of existing apps if we upgrade to AIR 30. This is a separate issue from 32-bit devices being unsupported for brand-new apps, and which is even more worrying for me." In essence, you won't be able to update ANY current App Store apps that have been submitted using AIR. They need to hear us in this discussion please. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2486666 -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/
