AIR is alive and well on the Mac App Store 🎉 (TestFlight too) — a thank-you and a hand to anyone stuck

[apofis1969]

Hi everyone 👋

I just wanted to share a small win, because a year ago I'd have told you it was impossible: our Adobe AIR app is now live on the Mac App Store — including TestFlight — running alongside the iOS and Android builds, all from the same codebase. On AIR. In 2026. 🐾

I'm posting partly to say thank you to HARMAN and this community for keeping AIR not just breathing but genuinely capable — and partly to offer a hand, because getting there meant solving a few things that aren't written down anywhere.

If any of this sounds painfully familiar:

"…is missing a provisioning profile … not eligible for TestFlight" 😩
codesign / notarization rejecting the bundle over leftover Flash-era files
the signature that just won't validate no matter how you --deep it
and if you're shipping through Xcode, the upload step throwing its own curveballs on top of all that
…then you've fought the same dragons I did. The good news: every one of them is solvable, and it's now a clean, repeatable, one-command process for us. I've written it up as a proper pipeline. If you're blocked on shipping an AIR app to the Mac App Store, reach out — happy to point you in the right direction.

AIR still has road ahead of it. Glad to be building on it — and glad to help others do the same.

Johannes, Klug Home Solutions

[dmunsie]

Wow.. sounds awesome, I would just write it up here for all to see. ;) Thanks!

[marchbold]

Yeah or consider contributing to airsdk.dev. I know the article I put up there a few years ago is sorely in need of updating: https://airsdk.dev/docs/tutorials/platform/macos/creating-macos-pkg-files

(it's all open sourced here: https://github.com/airsdk/airsdk.dev)