Comments on: Using the Adobe AIR Install Badge

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:15:21 +0000

First of all we need a better AIR Install Badge, because the AIR SDK has evolved, some things are deprecated now, like pubID – but still need it in order to make the badge work correctly (currently if you don’t specify an publisherID, you’re asked to install the application although is installed).
For anyone who is struggling take a look http://www.getwebreader.com/2011/02/a-better-custom-air-install-badge-google-analytics/

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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:11:26 +0000

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By: Igor

Igor — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:34:59 +0000

It’s clear… I need to contact their system administrator)

By: Igor

Igor — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:07:21 +0000

Hm… a little Googling point me to this:
‘You can do this by adding the following line to the .htaccess file for your server: (I�m not a server guru, so this may not work in all cases, but it works on the Apache server I�m using.)
AddType application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip .air’
Ok, i just have access to FTP, friend’s site hosts on foreign company server, so I look around at ftp://somesite.com and not find .htaccess file…

By: Igor

Igor — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:50:33 +0000

Thanks Jason! It looks like you are right. I place my .air file to friend’s web server, so appurl now like that
http://www.somesite.com/MyAirApp.air
Ok, then index.html load without errors and I able to click Install Now button, Installer seem to be stars, but anothre message appear.
The application could not be installed. Try installing it again. If the problem persists, contact the application author. Error # 2032. Here is screen
http://www.clickonf5.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tweetdeck_problem.gif
Strange, withoun badge .air installation run perfectly/

By: jason

jason — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:18:21 +0000

@Igor … My understanding ( and I could be wrong here ), is that you will need to have an absolute path to your AIR application on a web server. Not a local file path. That is to say that your path should start with ‘http://www….‘

Hope that helps.

Jason

By: Igor

Igor — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:32:23 +0000

Hi! Thanks for great util!
I’ve some problem when creating badge install with it.
When i load index.html there is message – Error. Invalid installer parameters.
So, i have my .air file locally,
C:\seamless\badge\myapp.air
Can this be a problem?

By: Bala

Bala — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:02:13 +0000

i figured out my problem

for anyone else struggling with this: http://forums.adobe.com/message/110535#110535

You can no longer call installApplication() or launchApplication() outside the context of a user-initiated event such as a button click. This change was made to improve the security of the browser API.

By: Bala

Bala — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:45:23 +0000

Hey jason, thanks for the suggestion. i do in deed have that in my descriptor file.

I was able to narrow my problem, I think it is a scope issue, maybe you can help ( I am a .NET developer, not so much AS3)

This code snippet is from the AIRBadge.as provided in the AIR SDK

This code works:
private var _appURL: String;
private var _appName: String;
private var _airVersion: String;

private var appID:String = “com.dbala.me.appid”;
private var pubID:String = “”; //

private var launch_args:Array = ["launchFromBrowser"];


private function onButtonClicked(e:Event):void {

	_air.installApplication( _appURL, _airVersion );
}

This code does NOT work:


private function onButtonClicked(e:Event):void {

	_air.getApplicationVersion(appID, pubID, versionDetectCallback);
}
private function versionDetectCallback(version:String):void

{

	if (version == null)

	{

		//this message displays

		root.statusMessage.htmlText = "blablabla installing";
		//this function DOES NOT execute

		_air.installApplication( _appURL, _airVersion );
		//this message displays

		root.statusMessage.htmlText = "blablabla after installing";
	}

	else

	{

		//this message displays

		root.statusMessage.htmlText = "Launching Application..";
		//this function DOES NOT execute

		_air.launchApplication(appID, pubID, launch_args);

	}

}

By: jason

jason — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:37:26 +0000

@Bala,

My first suggestion would be to ensure that your AIR application has the ‘allowBrowserInvocation’ set to true in your application descriptor file. By default it is false, and any calls to ‘launchApplication()’ will simply fail.

Jason