Build Adobe AIR applications with your Maven!

General purpose

Some time ago, Adobe released AIR for mobile devices. There was a question: how to package AIR-application automatically? Flexmojos allows you to build only *.air packages, so I have created the plugin which could work with platform dependent AIR SDK and additionally build packages for mobile devices.

Current status (1.0.2)

• Building AIR, APK, IPA packages
• Adobe Native Extensions (ANE) support
• Simple configuration
• No need installing SDK. Plugin downloads it as dependency

Plans

• Building native desktop packages (exe, dmg)
• Install to device mojo
• Linux SDK artifact working over wine (just for fun :)

Quick start

Add repository with plugin and SDK artifacts into your POM

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>yelbota-dropbox-repo</id>
        <url>http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36020926/maven/</url>
        <snapshots><enabled>false</enabled></snapshots>
        <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>yelbota-dropbox-repo</id>
        <url>http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36020926/maven/</url>
        <snapshots><enabled>false</enabled></snapshots>
        <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Add adt-maven-plugin into plugins section

<plugin>

    <groupId>com.yelbota.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>adt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.2</version>
    
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <goals>
            <goal>package</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
    
    <configuration>
    
        <sdkVersion>3.2-RC1</sdkVersion>
        <target>ipa-debug</target>
        <keystore>certificate.p12</keystore>
        <storepass>******</storepass>
        
        <!-- Required for ipa* targets -->
        <provisioningProfile>myapp.mobileprovision</provisioningProfile>
        
        <!-- 
             Optional. Application descriptor. By default is 
             src/main/resources/application-descriptor.xml
        -->
        <descriptor>src/main/flex/Project-app.xml</descriptor>
        
        <!-- 
             Optional. Replaces versionNumber in application descriptor. Useful
             for CI. 0.0.0 by default. 
        -->
        <versionNumber>${build.number}</versionNumber>
        
        <!-- 
             Optional. Replaces versionLabel in application descriptor. 
             ${project.version} by default.
         -->
        <versionLabel>${project.version}</versionLabel>
        
        <!-- 
             By default includes lookedup in target/classes directory. Usualy
             maven-resources-plugin copy here content of src/main/resources.
             You can change this behaviour by setting <includesRoot> property. 
        -->
        <includes>
            <include>icons</include>
        </includes>
        
    </configuration>
</plugin>

You can configure signing with adt.build.keystore, adt.build.storepass and adt.buid.mobileprovision properties.

mvn package -Dadt.build.keystore=certificate.p12 -Dadt.build.storepass=******

If you want to use your own SDK package, place it into plugin dependencies. Be aware, that AIR SDK is platform dependent.

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.yelbota.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>adt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.adobe.air</groupId>
            <artifactId>air-sdk</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
            <type>zip</type>
            <classifier>${os.family}</classifier>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    ...
</plugin>

AIR Native Extensions support

ANE support designed in true maven style. Just deploy your extension to maven repository and add dependency. You don't need to include <extensions> section in application descriptor. It will be done automatically.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.adobe.extensions</groupId>
    <artifactId>vibration</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <type>ane</type>
</dependency>

Note that Flexmojos doesn't support ANE dependencies at this moment (30.03.2012), so you can deploy your ANE with ane and swc packagings, and add they to dependencies both. Another way: use my experimental Flexmojos fork version 4.3-beta-y1 (available in my repo).

Foreign resources:

• Apache Maven
• Flexmojos
• Building Adobe AIR Applications