AIR SDK v51.0

[ajwfrost]

Hi all. Finally, we are releasing a new major version of the AIR SDK - the major version update is because of a number of new ActionScript APIs and features that are being added, which means the SWF version code will also be going up to 51 (fourth byte of the SWF = 0x33).

This discussion thread is to provide information about the new features/APIs. Our intention is to create a new main comment for each of the features, and then we (or anyone) can reply on those comment threads, so that we keep each thread specifically about a particular feature. We can then use it to give examples, provide updates on the status (51.0 is released initially as a beta/pre-release, some features are not actually completed), and hopefully it still stay roughly organised.

For full ActionScript API details, check out the "What's New" page of https://airsdk.dev/reference/actionscript/3.0/

[ajwfrost]

AS3: Minor language updates

A few minor updates to mention:

• String now has startsWith and endsWith methods
• Array and Vector have includes and isEmpty
• TextField has an allowedDomains property, see htmlText, img tag not working #1242
• Socket has a tcpNoDelay property, see Proper TCP_NODELAY support #2569
• DatagramSocket has a broadcast method
• MouseEvent has a MOUSE_WHEEL_HORIZONTAL type, see MouseWheel horizontal scrolling support (MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL_LEFT, MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL_RIGHT) #1858
• SecurityErrorEvent has a CERTIFICATE_ERROR type, see [Feature Request] Ability to suppress network security popups about invalid certificates #1453

[marchbold]

Try changing

import net.gimite.websocket.WebSocket;

to

import air.net.WebSocket;

[c273634386]

1172: Unable to find definition air. net: WebSocket.

Additionally, the DatagramSocket class does not have a broadcast function

[ajwfrost]

Is there any way you can add "-swf-version=51" to the compilation command line? (I'm not actually sure how to do that via Animate..?!). We will get a patch out for this soon....
Alternatively if you open up your compiled SWF file in a hex editor, change the fourth byte to 51 (0x33), it's probably either 50 (0x32) or 15 (0x0E)...
Plus please ensure your app descriptor file has the 51.0 namespace (and Animate is changing this back to 50.2 currently if you run via that..)
thanks

[itlancer]

@c273634386
To broadcast messages you need to use static method of DatagramSocket:
DatagramSocket.broadcast(byte,0,0,"192.168.1.255", 9410);

[GeneralVimes]

Just today I though "looks like I need startsWith method"! Eager to test in in AIR51!

[ajwfrost]

AS3: ByteArray updates

Trying to make the old ByteArray class a little more useful, per #2152 (comment), we have added some conversion routines for base64 and hexadecimal (aka base16) strings. So for example, you can create a ByteArray from a string in base64/base16 format using ByteArray.createFromBase64 and ByteArray.createFromHexString respectively. And to encode an existing ByteArray into base64/base16, you can use byteArray.toBase64() and byteArray.toHexString(). It's also possible to write base64/base16 strings into a ByteArray stream in the same way you might write bytes, objects, strings etc - so byteArray.writeBase64() and byteArray.writeHexString()`.

Another method that has been added is a writeRandomBytes() method. This doesn't add to the ByteArray object in the same way that other write methods do, instead it overwrites the whole of the ByteArray object with random data. The intention here is to allow any sensitive data to be overwritten in memory, rather than an operation such as setting the length to 0 which will "deallocate" the memory, but will be unlikely to actually change/overwrite that memory location (depending on the OS/CPU perhaps). This option can also be used to create random data in an existing ByteArray - there's a new function to create random data in a new ByteArray too, see the Encryption class.

[GeneralVimes]

Wow, really cool! I had to write my own functions for that

[ajwfrost]

AS3: Encryption updates

A minor change was to add the SHA-512 capabilities into the Digest class. We have also included a new Encryption class that can be used to perform AES CBC encryption and decryption of ByteArray objects, where you can provide the key and initialisation vector. There's a utility to generate random data in case that's also helpful - this is underwritten by the appropriate operating-system-specific cryptographic random byte generator.

Our previous release had introduced the idea of encrypting a BinaryData tag within a SWF file, which you can create from any file at compile-time via the embed command:

	[Embed(source="secret.txt", mimeType="application/octet-stream", encrypted="true")]
	private const EncryptedData : Class;

To extract the data, you could then do:

	var decryptedData : ByteArray = System.decryptBlob(EncStrings);

This option is still available, but the encryption key used here is randomly generated by the ActionScript compiler and then embedded into the data in an obfuscated manner. This is not particularly secure and so an additional option has been added so that developers can use their own key data, in the form of a string (only the first 16 characters would be used, but the string can be of any length.. it can't be true or false though...)

To set the string, there are two options:

1. Use a different value within the encrypted attribute in the Embed directive: for example, encrypted="new secret key"
2. Keep that value as "true" and instead pass a new option to the compiler, -compiler.encryption-key "new secret key"

If both options are used, the value in the Embed directive will take precedence. Of course, you need to pass the correct string then into the decryption request:

    System.poisonStrings = true; // ensure we overwrite the key's memory when we've finished with it
    var key : String = "new secret key"; // should be e.g. retrieved via HTTPS
    System.poisonStrings = false; // can be turned off once the String is allocated
    var decryptedData : ByteArray = System.decryptBlob(EncStrings, key); // pass in the same string used to encrypt this data!
    key = null; // force garbage collection and overwrite the key's memory
    // use the data...
    // ... and then:
    decryptedData.writeRandomBytes(); // overwrite the decrypted data with garbage

[ajwfrost]

AS3: Single-Precision Floating Point

This is one of the 'beta' pieces of functionality, it is passing the test cases that we have but there may still be issues with this. The change is a fairly major one in the ActionScript compiler and virtual machine, to introduce a single-precision (32-bit) floating point value, aka binary32. This is most likely something that would be useful for some of the Stage3D graphics programming, there are new functions in Context3D and VertexBuffer3D to use floating-point values (note that it was already possible to write single-precision floating point values into ByteArray objects; this just provides some options and optimizations when using Vectors).

The bulk of the original changes had actually been done by Adobe some time ago, along with updates for a "float4" type which was a structure holding 4 floating point values (so e.g. xyzw, rgba, etc, again targeting the Stage3D world). We have not proceeded with float4 as we were looking to use the storage slot instead for a 64-bit integer type, but it would be good to hear feedback on the thoughts here. I would add that there was still a lot of work that we found was needed in order to get the float value to work properly; the AOT compiler for iOS in particular had not been touched, so this is one area where some real-world testing would be particularly valued.

[hydroper]

Was just a new opcode added? It seems like parsing SWF compiled from a 10f literal results in an error at FFDec. Can you tell which is the instruction and its code if that's the case? Any modifications to the AVM2 bytecode?

[hydroper]

Oh, well, I could have looked at legacy avmplus to get an idea of it... Hope to not have annoyed for this simple detail ^_^'

[ajwfrost]

Yes, I think the opcodes were already there:
https://github.com/adobe/avmplus/blob/master/nanojit/LIRopcode.tbl

We had to make a number of changes to avmplus to get it to work, but then we also split it out so that we added support for "float" but not "float4". So a lot of updates based around this:
https://github.com/adobe/avmplus/blob/858d034a3bd3a54d9b70909386435cf4aec81d21/core/avmfeatures.h#L428
we now have AVMFEATURE_FLOAT4 and VMCFG_FLOAT4 which are undefined/off.

So in the compiler, if you use a float type then it will bump the ABC version up to the "VMCFG_SWF16"
https://github.com/adobe/avmplus/blob/858d034a3bd3a54d9b70909386435cf4aec81d21/core/AbcParser.cpp#L193

[Fancy2209]

Are there plans to add more types like this at some point? According to an archived version of the AS Next Roadmap, Adobe planed to add a lot more of this kind of ttypes to allow for better performance

Hardware-oriented numeric types: For example, int, uint, float, float4, byte, short, long, etc. (the exact set of types is still under discussion). Currently in ActionScript 3 integer values can overflow into floating point values. This will be changed so that numeric operations will never change the underlying representation of the numeric. We foresee this addition greatly reducing implementation complexity and improving runtime performance.

[ajwfrost]

AS3: WebSocket Support

This was a request quite a while ago, and there was a suggestion to perform the functionality all in ActionScript, which is possible of course; but it may make it a little more optimised for this to be provided by the underlying runtime. It was also something we found quite handy when doing some interactivity demonstrations between Adobe AIR and Adobe Express add-ons, which run in the browser (and can now communicate nice and easily with AIR apps..).

A WebSocket can be set up either as a client or as a server. If a client, you can just call the connect() method. This part is not yet implemented - the class will support the dispatch of 'connect', 'ioError' and 'securityError' events in a similar manner to a normal Socket object.

The more usual case is for AIR to act as the server, for which you can use a ServerSocket, and when a socket connection has been received, create the WebSocket object and call startServer():

private function onConnect(sockEvent : ServerSocketConnectEvent) : void
{
    _webSocket = new WebSocket();
	_webSocket.startServer(sockEvent.socket);
}

The WebSocket will at this point enter a listening mode and will expect the client to send an HTTP upgrade request, to switch to the WebSocket protocol. It will handle the handshaking and messages can then be sent via the sendMessage() function, or received via tha websocketData event. Note that message types that are supported are just text (String) or binary (ByteArray). Message lengths are limited to 4GB (i.e. the largest value that can be stored in the uint length of a ByteArray object).

[Fancy2209]

This could also make sense for when AIR WebAssembly happens, since Socket and XMLSocket aren't supported allowed to work on Web Natively.

[ajwfrost]

AS3: Zip Archive Support

This utility provides a more optimized and platform-agnostic mechanism to manipulate zip files. Currently the support is only for extracting/unzipping files, but the remaining APIs will be implemented in the near future.

One of the key provisions here is an asynchronous unzip operation. So for example:

var inputZipFile : File; // must be set to an actual zip file
var outputFolder : File; // must be set to an existing folder
var zip : ZipArchive = ZipArchive.load(inputZipFile); // parses the central file records
zip.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onProgress);
zip.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
zip.extractFilesAsync(outputFolder);

The unzip, expand and writing of the files will all take place in a background thread, with progress events sent out once per frame (if the number of files processed has changed). Note that the progress event does not provide updates in terms of bytes, instead the bytesLoaded and bytesTotal actually will refer to the number of files written vs the total number of entries in the zip.

[ajwfrost]

Hi

If you've got a zip file on the filesystem, and you want to extract its files onto the filesystem, then you would need two steps:

    // 1. load in the zip:
    var zip : ZipArchive = ZipArchive.load(inputFile); // a File object representing the .zip
    trace("Zip loaded with " + zip.entries.length + " entries");

    // 2. extract the files
    zip.addEventListener("progress", function(e:ProgressEvent):void {
        trace("Unzipped " + e.bytesLoaded " of " e.bytesTotal); // (not actually bytes)
    });
    zip.addEventListener("complete", function(e:Event):void {
        trace("Completed");
    });
    zip.extractFilesAsync(outputFolder); // a File object representing an existing folder

Your code snippet looks okay - so are you saying that those files aren't actually being written to the file system?

When you load a zip file from the file system, we just read in the records to populate that "entries" vector. If you try to access one of the files' data, then we extract/expand the file data. So you could do the extraction manually but that 'async' method uses a background thread as much as possible (to do the inflation and file writing).

[pavelzmolik]

Hello, thanks for the reply. Yes, you are described it right. I can load the zip file, I can see the entries, with all properities incl. data(byteArray), but i cant reach the physical writing into the chosen output folder. I tried your snippet with hardcoded directories, but no effect. the output folder is empty, all data contains the zipArchive class instance only.
I think I can write them with filestream workaround, but this "freeze" the app running, becasuse its too many files to write and its consume all CPU time until all files are saved to disc.
Have you any advice how to "copy" files from the zip archive with "exctractFilesAsync" method?
thanks a lot

Edit: I am developing it on the Windows 10 PC / in Adobe Animate with 51.0.0.4 SDK if this info helps

Edit2: I just realized, if the zip file contains only files(no directories), so system WRITES files in to file system. But if there are some files in the folder, system dont write any. If there is a combination files alone and some folders(with files). System write only files at the "root" archive and ignore folder structure. I think that is a bug. In the entries vector I can see whole zip file structure, but it cannot write it info disc

Edit3: Now I realized there is a problem with creating directories with the ZipArchive class. If I manually create the folder (same structure as in the zip file) then system extract and COPY all files even they are in the folder(in zip file). So if I create whole folder structure manually, and then I exctract files from the zip file, they are extracted correctly. The only problem is creating folders into file system! I dont know if you can repair that, but now I can extract files and can use the class but with this limits :)

[ajwfrost]

Thanks for the extra analysis... just to check, this is the app-storage location that you're writing to -> which means we shouldn't have any file/folder permission problems. I will double-check that we have the folder creation set up properly. Some zip files contain entries for the folders themselves (zero-length) and some don't, so we'll check with both cases to make sure this works....

[pavelzmolik]

OK thanks for your work.. And I have some other issue with ZipEntry class. I have tried to check entry flag to dig out if the entry is a directory or a file. At the docs of ZipEntry you have this

DIRECTORY : uint = 0x40000000
[static] Flag value for a directory entry

 	 	FILE : uint = 0x80000000
[static] Flag value for a file entry

If I try to trace the flag code I get this

puzzle_menu/ -> 0  -> flag:16
puzzle_menu/puzzle_menu_back_1.swf -> 69122  -> flag:32
puzzle_menu/puzzle_menu_back_10.swf -> 98751  -> flag:32

And its the same on windows(animate) or on the iOS device. According the docs, directory entry should pull out 1073741824 and file entry should pull out this 2147483648 so I cant compare entry flag with ZipEntry constants. I tried a dig out a little bit, and the values are same as AIRxZip library
Please try repair docs or the ZipEntry class to compare values with class constants. :) I know this is developer feature, so I can contribute with this little bit

[ajwfrost]

Ah - yes, looks like you have a zip with DOS attributes but not Unix ones. We'll add some mapping there to ensure this works a bit better....
thanks

[ajwfrost]

AS3: StageText type

See #3060 - there is a new contentType field on a StageText object, using values provided in a new StageTextContentType class. The behaviour of this may be somewhat platform-specific, the intention is to implement these values for iOS and Android, in particular so that the One-Time Password functionality can be provided on these platforms (i.e. a text field can be set up with the integration with incoming SMS traffic, according to what is normally supported in native Android/iOS applications.

Currently the frameworks/APIs are in place but further implementation/translation will be required to complete this feature on Android and iOS.

[ajwfrost]

AS3: StageWebView updates

There had been a number of features requested in StageWebView implementations, to change the behaviour for example recently to remove the zoom buttons on Android (#3061). The constructor for a StageWebView object has been updated to provide a lot more flexibility, allowing us to update the capabilities without needing API updates. See #1170 (comment)

The constructor can now be called with a dynamic configuration object, although the actual handling of this configuration is not completed. A list of options that can be provided, and their platform support, will be added to the AS3 documentation and also included here in the reply thread for this comment. See https://airsdk.dev/reference/actionscript/3.0/flash/media/StageWebView.html#StageWebView()

The other update needed for a StageWebView was the communication between the AS3 and JavaScript side. This should occur via the postMessage/sendMessage mechanism, and from an ActionScript perspective there is a postMessage method and a webViewMessage event (using a DataEvent event type). In JavaScript, the "postMessage" API can be used and "message" event handler (note that in Edge at least, this seems to need to be prefixed by window.chrome.webview). Messages can be sent as strings, although it may be more common to use JSON and to stringify this. Note that all communications are asynchronous; you cannot post a message to the WebView and get an inline response, you would need to add the event handler for "webViewMessage" and continue execution once that is received.]

[shaucky]

Does this mean that as long as JavaScript executes window.postMessage(), ActionScript can capture events? At the same time, ActionScript executes stageWebView.postMessage(), and JavaScript can capture the event, right?

[ajwfrost]

That's the plan .. although the JavaScript side may be platform-specific i.e. different OS webview implementations may have different requirements. I'm pretty sure Edge WebView2 uses 'window.chrome.webview.postMessage()' instead of 'window.postMessage()'...

[shaucky]

Got it… so does that means AIR 51 didn't finish the method…

I searched for some document, it seems many OS don't offer a designated name, for example on MacOS/iOS need a name offered by Objective-C. And on Android need the webView.addWebMessageListener().

AIR should offer those name later… Hope those information can helps some.

[waveofthought-code]

Will the StageWebView api be expanded to provide more methods such as clearCache, clearHistory, clearCookies, etc?

Currently, if I present a third party login in a webview, any cached cookie/session information is maintained in a WebView folder that exists one level above my application storage directory. Since I can't manually delete this folder with a File reference, I'm left with no way to "forget" this user's session, short of it expiring on its own accord.

Example: Person A launches my app and does a Facebook connection with WebView2. They close the app, and then Person B (on the same computer) opens it up to play. They also want to use Facebook connect, but when they try its using Person A's previously-stored connection info because its stored in this folder I can't delete/clear/purge.

Being able to programmatically handle some basic cleanup of webview data through the as3 interface would be super helpful!

[shaucky]

Did the releases version (51.0.1.1) forget to provide JavaScript methods/objects for posting WebView Messages on other OS?

[ajwfrost]

ANE:

There are still some works in progress with ANE functionality to improve the possibility of integrating third party libraries/capabilities into AIR applications; but the main addition for AIR 51.0 is the ability to render content from a memory buffer into the normal Stage display list tree. To do this, you would need to create a MediaBuffer object (we've not actually publicised the air.media.MediaBuffer class much yet). Typically you would either create this from a ByteArray or BitmapData, or from some embedded SWF data, but you can also pass the object in to an ANE and have the ANE then directly lock and write into the MediaBuffer memory. The MediaBuffer can be configured as the source of a DisplayObject which can then be added into the display list like any normal DisplayObject or Sprite.

To do this, you would set up an ANE and pass it the necessary objects:

  var ane : ExtensionContext = ExtensionContext.createExtensionContext("com.harman.air.NativeDisplay", "");
  var buffer : MediaBuffer = MediaBuffer.createFromBitmapData(bmpData);
  var sprite : Sprite = new Sprite();
  addChild(sprite);
  ane.call("setDisplayObjectSource", buffer, sprite);

and then within the ANE, you can set this MediaBuffer as the source for the object:

  FRESetRenderSource(ctx, args[0], args[1]);

The sprite should then have the contents of that bitmap data object. This of itself is not particularly useful, but you can also provide animation, either by using a different MediaBuffer object in different frames, or by changing the data directly within each frame:

  uint8_t* pData = NULL;
  uint32_t width, height, stride, format;
  if (FRE_OK == FREMediaBufferLock(ctx, args[0], &pData, &width, &height, &stride, &format))
  {
    // fill in the data with some new values
    memset(pData, 0x33, (height * stride));
    // unlock and set the display object as dirty
    FREMediaBufferUnlock(ctx, args[0], true);
  }

Some notes:

• The 'format' above is for potential future use, currently the assumption is that the data contains ARGB values but in future we may add formats such as YUV etc.
• The lock/unlock are expected to be thread-safe but the lock should not be held unnecessarily, since if there is a redraw needed by the linked DisplayObject, it will need to also access the MediaBuffer's memory. Currently the FREMediaBufferLock will fail if called from a background thread, some more work is needed to ensure that the internal memory management/garbage collection will allow this kind of mechanism..
• Future plans also include the ability to share hardware-accelerated handles such as EGLImage or similar, to enable enhanced or accelerated integration between the AIR display list and third party components.
• These capabilities are not yet exported via the Java interface for Android ANEs, but this should be possible in the near future.

[ajwfrost]

@RayGyoe what sort of debugging do you mean? Are you trying to debug the ActionScript code that's ending up in the "library.swf" packaged in the ANE? Or the native code?

The library SWF is loaded prior to the main application SWF... so it may be that there are some hoops to jump through in order to get debugging working from that. Let us know exactly what you're trying/expecting, and we can take a look in more detail..

thanks

[RayGyoe]

@ajwfrost I would like to express that there might be some misunderstanding. I am not trying to understand how to debug the program.

I am attempting to run the sample code found in https://github.com/airsdk/Adobe-Runtime-Support/tree/master/samples/mediabuffer_rendering, but it is not working as expected. Please check the error in the screenshot above.

[RayGyoe]

@ajwfrost Testing version 51.0.1.1, does this new feature still not work?

[RayGyoe]

@ajwfrost In AIR 51.0.1.3 version, MediaBuffer still cannot work. We look forward to its availability and support for multithreading

[bobaoapae]

any updates on that feature? @ajwfrost

[raresn]

@ajwfrost SUPER! can't wait to test this! I am guessing we will fail to have proper autocomplete using IntelliJ because of the plugin?
Also, i can't find this anywhere, but is the EOS fix here as well?

[ajwfrost]

Yes the EOS camera fix is in there, the release notes are at https://airsdk.harman.com/previews
We may pull that over into the 50.2.4 branch depending on how long we think it will take to get 51.0.0 into a release-ready version!

Autocomplete I thought was based on the airglobal.swc file so I would have hoped that worked automatically? It does in FlashDevelop .. :-)

[raresn]

It is going to be a fun weekend! Thank you!

[bobaoapae]

Could you please add a method to load zipfile from bytearray? Currently I'm writing to a temp file and then using the new zipfile class to load the data and process the files data in my application. But this add a unnecessary overhead but it's still more fast than others available library's to handle zip files like fszip. If you can just add a method to load from bytearray will be awesome.

[ajwfrost]

Good idea :-)

[pavelzmolik]

Hello, maybe it is not the correct topic to ask. But I didn't find the any answer while googling. So I'd like to ask, is there some possibility that AIR SDK works with apple "on-demand resources"?
On-demand resources

I din't find any link on google to some tutorial in AIR SDK, there are some tutorial to SWIFT, but it isn't what I am looking for..
But the basical question is if AIR can work with that or not..
If yes, can you link me some tutorial?
If not, is this possible to implement to the AIR?
thanks for answer

[bobaoapae]

As i know On-Demand Resources it's not available in adobe air, maybe @ajwfrost can provide some ane just like they did for android asset delivery

[ajwfrost]

I actually thought on-demand resources was already possible without explicit support added into AIR .. let me check though, I will try to dig out an earlier conversation about it...

[dmunsie]

If an app runs ok in 50.2.4, will it run fine in v51.0? I'm concerned with updating to the latest SDK if things are running just fine in 50.2.4. Thx.

[ajwfrost]

If things are running fine in 50.2.4 then stick with it... :-)

51.0 is still beta: mostly that means that the new features aren't completely finished/fixed, but there are other changes that could increase the risk of regressions. So until we've got to the final release of it (probably in 5-6 weeks?), it's best to stick with 50.2.4. We're looking to pull a few of the bug fixes from 51.0 back into 50.2.4 and do a .5 release of that ...

[bobaoapae]

Sorry for post this here, just hoping to get some attention:

Will this receive any new updates? : #2869

@ajwfrost

[takazawa-gg]

@ajwfrost
Thank you for continuing to update the AIR SDK.
I'm looking forward to the new version.

By the way, does this version include the addition of Android's Focus event?
#2772

We should continue to use 50.2.3.6 for Android builds to avoid this issue.
We hope the new version supports Focus events.

[ajwfrost]

The new version should have the NativeWindow support, but I'm not actually sure whether the activation events are yet connected! we can check; if they're not there, they will be for the subsequent release!

thanks

[takata-gg]

Hello, I tried it with v51.0.1.1. But it doesn't seem to be working yet.
I hope that Android focus events will be added in the next version.

[takazawa-gg]

@ajwfrost
Hello,

Has the schedule for adding the Focus event in Android been determined?

Typically, around August each year, Google Play's requirements mandate increasing the Android API level.
Consequently, we are considering updating to the latest AIR SDK around that time.
We hope that the Focus event will be included in AIR SDK v51 by then.

Best regards,

[ajwfrost]

Hi @takazawa-gg - we do now have Android supporting activate/deactivate events from stage.nativeWindow, separately from the NativeApplication.nativeApplication ones that are only sent when the whole application starts/stops. Currently one bug with it: when the NativeApplication goes into the background/foreground it is sending a spurious NativeWindow one too (so, you get two in a row for the window, plus one from the application). Will try to get that sorted out and then release it...

thanks

[takazawa-gg]

I understand the current situation. Thank you for your reply!
I'm cheering for the bug fix to go smoothly.
I look forward to further updates.

[pol2095]

I have an error using AIR SDK 51.0.0.4 for Apple TV/tvOS :

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus15ZipArchiveClass4IdleEv
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(splayer.o):(symbol __ZN10CorePlayer11DoPlay_IdleEb+0x3ac)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus15EncryptionClass7encryptEPNS_15ByteArrayObjectES2_S2_
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID37air_security_Encryption_encrypt_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0xc)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID45air_security_Encryption_encrypt_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x6c)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus15EncryptionClass7decryptEPNS_15ByteArrayObjectES2_S2_
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID37air_security_Encryption_decrypt_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0xc)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID45air_security_Encryption_decrypt_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x6c)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus15EncryptionClass14getRandomBytesEj
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID44air_security_Encryption_getRandomBytes_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x8)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID52air_security_Encryption_getRandomBytes_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x6c)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus13ZipEntryClass14createFromFileEPNS_10FileObjectEb
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID39air_utils_ZipEntry_createFromFile_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x14)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID47air_utils_ZipEntry_createFromFile_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x74)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject8get_nameEv
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID33air_utils_ZipEntry_name_get_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x4)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID41air_utils_ZipEntry_name_get_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject8set_nameEPNS_6StringE
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID33air_utils_ZipEntry_name_set_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0xc)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID41air_utils_ZipEntry_name_set_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject12get_compressEv
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID37air_utils_ZipEntry_compress_get_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0xc)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID45air_utils_ZipEntry_compress_get_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject12set_compressEb
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID37air_utils_ZipEntry_compress_set_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x14)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID45air_utils_ZipEntry_compress_set_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x70)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject8get_dataEv
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID33air_utils_ZipEntry_data_get_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x4)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID41air_utils_ZipEntry_data_get_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject8set_dataEPNS_15ByteArrayObjectE
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID33air_utils_ZipEntry_data_set_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0xc)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID41air_utils_ZipEntry_data_set_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject9get_flagsEv
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID34air_utils_ZipEntry_flags_get_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0xc)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID42air_utils_ZipEntry_flags_get_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject9set_flagsEj
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID34air_utils_ZipEntry_flags_set_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x10)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID42air_utils_ZipEntry_flags_set_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x6c)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject12get_modifiedEv
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID37air_utils_ZipEntry_modified_get_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x4)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID45air_utils_ZipEntry_modified_get_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject12set_modifiedEPNS_10DateObjectE
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID37air_utils_ZipEntry_modified_set_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0xc)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID45air_utils_ZipEntry_modified_set_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus14ZipEntryObject5cloneEv
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID30air_utils_ZipEntry_clone_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x4)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID38air_utils_ZipEntry_clone_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus15ZipArchiveClass4loadEPNS_10FileObjectE
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID31air_utils_ZipArchive_load_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x4)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID39air_utils_ZipArchive_load_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus15ZipArchiveClass17loadFromByteArrayEPNS_15ByteArrayObjectE
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRCompilation failed while executing : ld64
SDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID44air_utils_ZipArchive_loadFromByteArray_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x4)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID52air_utils_ZipArchive_loadFromByteArray_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus15ZipArchiveClass16createFromFolderEPNS_10FileObjectEbbbb
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID43air_utils_ZipArchive_createFromFolder_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x90)

ld64: error: undefined symbol: __ZN7avmplus16ZipArchiveObject4saveEPNS_10FileObjectE
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID31air_utils_ZipArchive_save_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0xc)
>>> referenced by C:\\AIRSDK_Compiler\\lib\\aot/lib-tvos/libRuntimeInterpreter.arm-air.a(PlayerAvmCore.o):(symbol __ZN7avmplus8NativeID39air_utils_ZipArchive_save_sampler_thunkEPNS_9MethodEnvEjPx+0x68)

ld64: error: too many errors emitted, stopping now (use --error-limit=0 to see all errors)

Thanks

[dmunsie]

I was able to download the files, thank you. :) Before I take the time to research your ANE (it takes a bit of time to write, test, etc, on an Android TV, lol..) could you please tell me what buttons you are actively using in your existing Apple TV app(s) using this ANE? Thanks again.

[pol2095]

It's an ANE for Android TV, not Apple TV.

[dmunsie]

Forgive me if I'm confused.. in your original post you are talking about "Apple TV/tvOS", are you able to detect any other buttons than the standard up/down/left/right/enter/back on that platform? I have very limited experience with Android TV and have never tested anything on the Apple TV/tvOS due to I thought reading their TV controller would not be possible without some kind of custom low level ANE. Thx.

[pol2095]

Adobe Air use specific gestures for Apple TV Siri Remote support.

[dmunsie]

Just looking for a simple answer what buttons you are using in your Apple TVos apps. Thanks anyway for your time. Maybe I'll ping the guys at Distriqt and see if they are interested in developing a cross platform ANE for Android TV/Apple TV for reading the remote.

[GeneralVimes]

I see AIR 51 in the main Release notes - does it mean that we can use it in our live projects?

[shaucky]

This is the first redistributable release of version 51.x of the AIR SDK. This can be used for production applications, it includes all of the recent stability fixes and will be the baseline for future 51.0 releases.

From the release notes.

[ajwfrost]

To clarify -> 51.0.1.1, yes. We've got a kind of convention where a "0" in the third slot is used for pre-releases... so you can use 51.0.1.x for production. We'll switch over the "latest release" to this shortly (i.e. the default from the main download page)
thanks

[GeneralVimes]

Thank you! Yes, I wondered mostly because 50.2.5.1 is shown first on the download page.
I found a bug in 51, going to elaborate in the next post now

[GeneralVimes]

I tested AIR 51.0.1.1 on my game.
My game is based on Starling.
The game uses Starling and works this way: it has 4 images embedded, and all the rest game assets are loaded via starling AssetManager
Also I have junkbyte Console to log game events and errors. Console is drawn atop of starling content using the usual Displaylist
Used ANEs: distriqt's Firebase, Admob, In-Apps

This is what happens:
The game's preloader starts normally. But when the assets are loaded I just see a white screen and a console atop of it.
Also, when I drag the console bottom-right corner I see "null" in it.

Here I attach 2 videos: of the game compiled and built with AIR 50.2.5.1 and with AIR 51.0.1.1
50.2.5.1
video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fGeFgXdePDZQI4zXE3UyurjyD3715I9-/view?usp=drive_link
apk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H3uiK9o0feksKpF5ht46kv6--8h3KcCu/view?usp=drive_link

51.0.1.1
video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fPETrtflbDxIhK7m2el1w-lhWA7wMByy/view?usp=drive_link
apk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s0Os8Nm9phUSVM2fGEl03tZpMRz7ZSvl/view?usp=drive_link

[GeneralVimes]

Tried without any SDKs, the same: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LAzGIRgptQ2XmI6ZqQX8XNdBCe4dBxbq/view?usp=drive_link

Device Galaxy S23, Android 14

Also want to check, if I have an app compiled with AIR 50 and I have to change it to AIR 51, should I do the following:

• in application.xml change namespace from 50.2 to 51.0
• in compiler options change -swf-version=50 to -swf-version=51
  and is that all?

[GeneralVimes]

In AIR 51.0.1.3 everything works correctly. Thank you!

[marcussacana]

Any news about android Ahead of Time?

[ajwfrost]

A lot of the work is done regarding the code needed for this, but the main outstanding thing is adjusting the bootstrapping mechanism and the way the applications currently launch. Plus then, the toolchains need to be updated for it..

We should start looking into this further after we've done the updates for Android (this week) and the next Xcode/iPhoneOS updates after that..

[marcussacana]

@ajwfrost In Android Ahead of Time, do you consider maintaining hybrid support for JIT execution of SWF? Because unlike iOS, it is not a requirement for publishing. This would be useful in our application because we can keep the main logical code natively compiled, improving optimization and security, but still supporting assets with external code without requiring the recompilation of the entire project.