How to Overlay the Adobe AIR SDK for Use with the Flex SDK

This information is in the AIR_Android_ReleaseNotes_xxxx.pdf. What I am posting here is just meant to shift to the surface some very valuable information.

I know that there are many people out there that manually merge the AIR SDK onto the Flex SDK – myself included. I knew there had to be a better way to do it but “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” right?

Well I’m tired of spending those tedious minutes going through folders and copying over files. Yes, if you are in windows this is just a drag and drop operation but not for a mac. We need to get into terminal to do this.

1. In terminal, “cd” to the root folder of the Flex SDK

2. Place the AIR25_mac_sdk_XXXXXXX.tbz2 file in your root folder

3. Run the following command:

tar jxvf AIR25_mac_sdk_XXXXXX.tbz2

If there is a file permissions problem you may need to add a “sudo chop” to the front of that command, as such:

sudo tar jxvf AIR25_mac_sdk_XXXXXX.tbz2

FYI. The “sudo chop” was supposed to be a joke.

HTH

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Nate BeckJuly 21st, 2010 at 4:22 pm

Hehe… sudo chop.

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