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Yikes - sounds very similar to trying to deploy Java desktop apps. Not a pleasant experience. Why don't they just bake the AIR runtime into the original downloa
by deeringc 14y ago
Yikes - sounds very similar to trying to deploy Java desktop apps. Not a pleasant experience. Why don't they just bake the AIR runtime into the original download? Sure it would be bigger and you'd end up with duplicate copies, but almost anything is better than trying to get end users to download runtimes.
- Dove 14y agoWell, 16 MB is a really quite a nasty large size for an app. For reference, one of the low-end phones I target has 180MB of internal memory. (And I don't think I can tell an app -- and certainly not an AIR app -- to install itself on the SD card, though a wizardly user certainly can.) You can get away with 16 MB in a graphics-heavy game, but something that's mostly forms and screens really ought to come in under a megabyte. Phonegap gets to bundle the platform because their hello world is only 300k. I really don't think AIR could get away with that. But I agree, the user experience might be better if that was an option.