ADT Batman: The Utility Belt for the AIR Command-Line Compiler
by Gritfish on July 11, 2011
Over the last few months I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR on my iPad and Nexus S. The performance increase has been phenomenal between 2.5 and 2.7, and with the rewrite of boxy2d’s event system, I’ve been getting around 50 physics objects on screen without any slowdown whatsoever.
My biggest gripe, though, is with Adobe’s lack of updates for AIR publishing in flash.
The Adobe ADT (link) is a great tool for packaging AIR applications, but getting my head around using it instead of publishing from flash was one of my biggest headaches getting started, and it’s a massive hurdle when you’re taking your first steps and playing around with mobile development.
Trying to remember all the options for the ADT was a chore, and so was opening up a terminal window each time when all I wanted to do was push a button and have it WORK.
To speed up the process of coding > packaging > testing, I wrote my own generator to put together a .bat script file.
The ADT .bat maker is free to download, use and share. I hope it’s as useful to you as it is to me. If you find anything that needs correcting, leave a comment or contact me here.