- the possibility of create high-performance content and optimize content

- the ergonomy of the development environment and the usability of the engine

- the great community

- the ability to call native functionalities using AIR native extensions (ANE)

- the facility of publish and debug for cross-platform

- the solidity of the language

- the frequency of the updates

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- have more official and free ANE

- find the good ANE is not always easy

- more official API for the different web services

- no windows phone support (for now)

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The ability to take the same code-base and package to Windows, Mac, Android and iOS with minimum fuss is a very strong and valuable feature of Adobe AIR.

With Stage3D and libraries like Starling that enable high performance on all devices.

AS3 is a powerful and mature Object Oriented language that has an incredible number of features. With the addition of many community built libraries, almost anything you can imagine can be built with it.

Development can be done at no cost by using the free IDE FlashDevelop. Though I prefer the paid option of using the Eclipse based FDT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More and more AS3 libraries appear to becoming abandoned so innovation and progress within the technology appears to be slowing.

Unfortunately clients' lack of knowledge of this technology, thinking it is just Flash, hurts its industry reputation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use AIR for game development. I'm happy about hardware acclearation for games, the ability to prototype quickly and easily and to test and deploy on multiple devices. I'm also glad for the amount of open source tech available for it like Flixel, Starling and Feathers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the biggest worries that I have about AIR is the uncertainty about its future. With HTML5 support becoming de facto and browsers getting more stable and capable, the need for AIR and the Flash player slowly disappears. It would be interesting to see how AIR will change and that uncertainty is annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saving time and cost because Adobe AIR works on android, iOS, Windows and Mac OS X. It is really cost effective to develop apps that is needed to be cross platform in a short period of time since most of the code are reusable and it helps me to focus more on the user interface of the app instead of spending hours trying to tediously maintain different code base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance can some how be an issue depending on how you develop the app. For example most of the things I have are built with Flex or some simple actionscript UI libraries where they are not using Stage3D api. It is ok because they are more business related application, however performance on this part should be more optimized even without fancy animations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

i used this toolset on almost 5 projects in my career and surely it was best time, where i learned decent development. actually at that time, there were less comparable choices. Still i beleive there are many, which provide that many features with few clicks. i mean, simple graphics, animations, transitions, sounds without being worried with small file sizes etc. more, i wasn't worried that it will work on mac or windows. super cool stuff was, application deployed was able to upgrade it self, as i put new build on server. i mean, that was awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its really hard to find dislikings in a toolset which was precise in its thought and does exactly that. my choices primarily was due to FILE IO and i get that. from what i remember, using sockets was a bit tricky but it was my inability to understand that, other wise, it was good. adding upgradable features was fun. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AS/3, the language is very easy to learn and one can take it to the extremes, and even touch C code through the proper interfaces.

Easy to use, multiplatform, fast IDE. Great for the web, PC and modern (fast) smartphones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like the fact that Adobe isn't supporting its own product as it should.

Since a competitor stated that it was slow, AIR's public perception trembled and Adobe wasn't able to face it properly affecting the developers community (giving hints of a clear future path and encouraging our clients to adopt it (install the runtime).

So, yes, it is a terrific product, with a marketing problem, something that Adobe can fix only if they decide to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The versatility of the software by been able to develop for different platforms and devices ,,, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lack of knowledge of the platform in the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The expience developing with Adobe AIR was great, and ActionScript is one of the best languages out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The delivery experience for the end customer was dreadful and what killed the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You have to have it to run a lot of programs since developers package the same code into apps. I like that it doesn't eat up a lot of my computer's processing in order to run it and the applications that need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really. It's a necessity to be able to use certain things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One runtime for different platforms: Android and iOS, shorten development time and resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasional runtime incompatibility across different platform versions. Components for Mobile Apps development are not up-to-date, e.g. sliding menu is not available like native platforms do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.