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Your First AIR 2.0 EXE file

By Rich Tretola | November 17, 2009
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Here is a very simple example of how to create your first installed exe for an AIR application. Here is what I did.

NOTE: Please make sure you have your application xml file set to:

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<supportedProfiles>extendedDesktop desktop</supportedProfiles>
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Using Flash Builder public beta with an updated Flex 4 SDK (overlayed with the new AIR 2.0 SDK), I created a simple application.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
                       xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
                       xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo">
    <fx:Declarations>
        <!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->
    </fx:Declarations>
    <s:Label x="138" y="143" text="Hello World!" fontSize="36"/>
</s:WindowedApplication>

Next, I compiled the application at an AIR file by exporting the release build and self signing it.

Finally, I simply opened the console and ran the following command:

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adt -package -target native C:\AIRSamples\AIRSample.exe C:\AIRSamples\AIRSample.air


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Thats it, my AIRSample.exe was created.

Note: you could also have created a dmg or rpm:

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adt -package -target native C:\AIRSamples\AIRSample.dmg C:\AIRSamples\AIRSample.air
adt -package -target native C:\AIRSamples\AIRSample.rpm C:\AIRSamples\AIRSample.air

Here is what the install process looks like for the exe.

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Topics: Adobe AIR | 36 Comments »

36 Responses to “Your First AIR 2.0 EXE file”

  1. Christian Cantrell Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Thanks for getting a sample up so quickly! What do you think of AIR 2 so far? Got any big plans for apps?

    Christian

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    Rich Tretola Reply:
    November 17th, 2009 at 11:31 am

    No problem, I had to wait until today. :-)

    As far as apps, not sure yet but we certainly have a lot more possibilities now.

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  2. Remi.T Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 11:26 am

    Thanks too for this post.

    The install screen doesn’t look like the default air install screen. I was wondering if it can be customized ?

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  3. achraf Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    hi,

    i follow all off these steps and when i launch the command like, i have this error message (ava[2588:c0b] Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/SafariStand4.0L167).
    I am on Mac osx leopard.

    i type this in command like adt -package -target native /airApp/main.app /airApp/main.air

    do you have any idea ??!!!

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    Rich Tretola Reply:
    November 18th, 2009 at 5:20 am

    Your command is incorrect, the -target native should be either an exe, dmg, or rmp.

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  4. uberVU - social comments Says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

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  6. Nikola Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    Hello,

    I’ve tried the command, but I have problem. I can’t access (recognize) the adt! How to solve this?

    And what about the shortcut menu option (convert to .exe) if you right click the air file?

    Thanks in advance,
    Nikola

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    Nikola Reply:
    November 19th, 2009 at 10:53 am

    I solved it!

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    mukesh gupta Reply:
    November 6th, 2010 at 7:42 am

    How, I need the helo to solve the same issue on Windows 7 machine

    Reply to this comment

  7. Martin Arvisais, As-Is - Développeur et Formateur Adobe Flash - Flex - FMS - Actionscript 3.0 - AIR - Web - Internet :: Flash :: Beta du Adobe flash player 10.1 et Adobe AIR 2 disponible Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 8:59 pm

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  8. AIR 2.0 Native Installer Concerns | EverythingFlex: Flex & AIR Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 8:42 am

    [...] Your First AIR 2.0 EXE file [...]

  9. Ajith Says:
    December 7th, 2009 at 12:17 am

    Hi,

    I’ve tried the command ( adt -package -target native C:\sampleapp.exe C:\sampleapp.air ) in cmd, but I am getting an error message (‘adt’ is not recognized as an internal or external command).

    Then I tried the same command with ‘Adobe Flash Builder Beta 2 SDK Command Prompt’,but i am getting the error message (-storetype is required).

    Please tell me how to solve this issue?

    Thanks,
    Ajith Kumar R

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    Rich Tretola Reply:
    December 7th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    This means that you do not have the SDK added to your classpath correctly.

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    Ajith Reply:
    December 8th, 2009 at 2:37 am

    Hi Rich Tretola,

    Setting the classpath solved the issue.
    Thank you very much..:)

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  10. mukesh Says:
    December 7th, 2009 at 5:41 am

    Hi,Thanks for the code. But I got the error “storetype is required.” I do not how to solve that, do u have any idea to solve that.I am using Flash4 builder with AIR version 1.5.2.

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    Rich Tretola Reply:
    December 7th, 2009 at 5:45 am

    This only works with AIR 2.0. You need to upgrade your SDK and then overlay the Flex SDK with the AIR 2.0 SDK.

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  12. ajith Says:
    January 28th, 2010 at 8:06 am

    Hi,

    I got an error when i tried to build air file.Error message given below:

    “Error creating AIR file: 306: ERROR, desktop, mobile Device, or extended MobileDevice”

    Please help me.

    Thanks,
    Ajith Kumar R

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    john barrie Reply:
    January 31st, 2010 at 11:12 am

    “Error creating AIR file: 306: ERROR, desktop, mobile Device, or extended MobileDevice”

    I also got this message while creating the .air !

    Did you find a solution for this ?

    if the “supportedProfiles” tag is removed I can export fine. Of course this means that the “nativeProcess” nolonger works. ;) But it does give some indication to the source of the problem.

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    Rich Tretola Reply:
    January 31st, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    Make sure you have your supportedProfiles set to:

    <supportedProfiles>extendedDesktop desktop</supportedProfiles>

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    ajith Reply:
    February 1st, 2010 at 12:09 am

    Hi,

    Thank for the reply,now it works fine…

    jonnyp Reply:
    September 28th, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    When I do this it doesn’t allow nativeProcess calls to work at all. What’s the deal?

    Pontus H Reply:
    December 8th, 2010 at 1:17 pm

    If I put extendedDesktop desktop in the -app.xml file, NativeProcesses are disabled. How do I solve this?

    Im using Adobe Flash Builder 4.0.1

    Best regards
    / Pontus

  13. Mitesh Says:
    February 15th, 2010 at 9:31 am

    Hi,
    very nice example thanks for that.But i am facing only one problem whenever i execute the adt -package -target ////

    i get signing options required to package from descriptor and file set. please help me i will be thankful to you

    Reply to this comment

  14. Adobe Air 2(Beta 2) to Exe – Packaging Air app in Windows executable « Bishop On Development Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    [...] 1-4 above are covered very nicely in Rich Tretola’s Everything Flex blog, but has less emphasis on errors. The following steps will show you how to set up the environment [...]

  15. David Says:
    March 23rd, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    I am the same as Mitesh in that I get signing options required to package from descriptor and file set when I run the adt command

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  16. Brian Says:
    March 24th, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    David (from the post above) found a solution to the signing problem that Mitesh was having (and that I sometimes get, although I dont know why). Here is the comment he put on my blog:

    Quote: Can I just add (for those who have a similar problem) that apart from removing spaces in the command line,I did need to add signing options so my command line looked like

    adt -package -target native -storetype pkcs12 -keystore C:\Users\David\test_cert.p12 C:\Users\David\mytest.exe C:\Users\David\test.air

    Thanks Dave

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  19. Mohit Says:
    August 10th, 2010 at 6:35 am

    Hi,

    I create a dmg package using ” adt -package -target native C:\AIRSamples\AIRSample.dmg C:\AIRSamples\AIRSample.air ” command but when i open this into mac it gives me messgae that not recognize all time,

    Can you please help me ?

    Thanks
    Mohit

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    Mudasir Reply:
    February 3rd, 2011 at 7:45 am

    You’ve to create .dmg package in Mac. you can’t create package of other OS in Windows.

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  20. Gourav Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 3:25 am

    Hi,
    i want to convert my .air to .exe
    i try same process and also write this like to my xml
    desktop extendedDesktop
    and im using air2 so i write:

    but when write
    “adt -package -target native C:\AirExe\AirinstallerDemo1.0.dmg C:\AirExe\AirinstallerDemo1.0.air”
    to command prompt i got the fallowing error:
    ————————————————————————————
    -storetype is required
    usage:
    adt -checkstore SINGIN_OPTIONS
    adt – certificate ……..
    adt -help
    …
    .
    .
    …
    adt -version
    SINGIN_OPTIONS : – stroretype (- )?……….
    …….
    …….
    *
    ———————————————————–

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    mukesh gupta Reply:
    November 6th, 2010 at 7:43 am

    -Same issue for me also.

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    Mitesh Dave Reply:
    November 8th, 2010 at 8:15 am

    Please Refer this site for additional help mukesh.it will certainly help you :)
    http://bishoponvsto.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/adobe-air-2beta-2-to-exe-packaging-air-app-in-windows-executable/

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  21. Matt Houseman Says:
    March 18th, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    All,

    I totally get how to create an installer like so:

    $ adt -package -target native c:\AirExe\myApp.exe c:\AirExe\myAirApp.air

    Is it possible to run the installer silently from the command line? Part of our smoke test process is to do nightly builds which would include the adt command above. What we’re missing right now is automatically copying the installer to a QA machine and silently install from the command line. Currently, we have a QA engineer manually running the GUI installer.

    We want to automate as much of our process as possible and without installing silently from the command line, we’re kind of dead in the water for automating this process. Thanks…

    Matt

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