Other Tools
Developing AIR for Android is not limited to the tools mentioned so far. You can use a range of other products, but you need to manually install the SDKs and use the command-line tool. Please refer to the links provided for more information on how to use them.
Note
The Android SDK provides great mobile tooling, which we will cover in Chapter 3. It is particularly valuable if you want to learn more about native processes while you are testing your application.
The Android SDK is used to install the application on the device. Refer to Chapter 3 for further instructions.
The AIR 2.6 SDK is used to package and deploy AIR applications for Android. For more information, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/air/sdk/.
In all of the following development environments, you need to “overlay” the AIR SDK. Links are provided for instructions:
The free Flex and AIR SDK uses the Flex amxmlc compiler and AIR command-line tools. See http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home.
Power Flasher sells FDT, a development environment for ActionScript 3 and MXML, and offers the open source SOSmax, a socket output utility for debugging. See http://fdt.powerflasher.com/docs/Community_Resources#Multiscreen:_Targeting_Mobile_Devices.
Flash Develop is an open source code editor for Windows. See http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8079&p=37453&hilit=AIR#p37453.
JetBrains sells IntelliJ IDEA, a cross-platform editor particularly favored by Java developers. See http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/index.html ...
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