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Adobe Air Version Checker

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So I had a bit of an annoying morning today. I went to update from AIR 1.5.2 to the latest release (1.5.3). The process didn’t go so smoothly. Long story short the updater would just hang up and sit there. I tried uninstalling 1.5.2 to get a fresh version of 1.5.3 rather than an update. No luck, the uninstaller wouldn’t work. I kept getting error messages about possibly not being an admin on my machine. Not true, I am the admin…. So what to do… Looking around the interwebz, it doesn’t seem like others are having the same trouble.

I checked permissions, restarted. Tried again, no luck. Tried again, and what? It tells me that I already have 1.5.3 installed. Huh? On which of the failed attempts did that happen? So I thought I would check the version number somehow. After a bit of googling. I found no easy way to verify the version number. You can do it programatically from within ActionScript. To do so you simply look at the following:

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.runtimeVersion

Looking at that property from within your IDE will tell you which version of the runtime you have in your installed SDK. To see which actual version of AIR is installed for AIR apps that you are running on the machine you need to execute the code within that environment.

So I built a quick little widget that displays the installed runtime version. Nothing too fancy here, just a utility. Feel free to install and use it via the badge installer below…

Please upgrade your Flash Player In order to view this content you will need to have the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player.

You can install the widget from the install badge above, or you can download the .air installer here

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December 10th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

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  1. Hi Jason,

    Thanks for that. It’s pretty handy.
    It’s annoying there isn’t an easier way for people to check what their installed version number is.

    Cheers,

    Adrian

    Adrian Parr

    11 Dec 09 at 6:50 am

  2. I hope you don’t mind, I’ve re-blogged about this on my site …

    http://www.adrianparr.com/?p=122

    Adrian Parr

    11 Dec 09 at 7:04 am

  3. I’m glad someone else found it usefull. Thanks for the mention

    jason

    11 Dec 09 at 7:36 am

  4. if you don’t mind using undocumented features, you can simply use this from Flash Player, without making AIR app:

    import adobe.utils.ProductManager;
    var mgr:ProductManager = new ProductManager(“airappinstaller”);
    if(mgr.installed){
    trace(mgr.installedVersion);
    }

    DL1t

    11 Dec 09 at 1:21 pm

  5. Very cool. I remember now running into the Product Manager a while back while looking into AIR install badges, but never took the time to investigate further. Thanks for the comment.

    jason

    11 Dec 09 at 4:17 pm

  6. Thanks Jason. I found this useful little Adobe knowledgebase article, which gives you a way to check the version of AIR on Mac and Linus systems:

    http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407625.html

    I can’t find anything similar for Windows.

    Chris

    18 Jan 10 at 4:13 pm

  7. @Chris Nice find. I hadn’t seen that article, thanks for the link. Jason.

    jason

    18 Jan 10 at 5:34 pm

  8. Thanks for this util Jason.

    Mike

    14 Jul 10 at 8:31 am

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