Adobe Air for Windows download

Summary

HARMAN is now the primary maintainer of the Adobe AIR SDK, taking over active development and support after Adobe discontinued its stewardship in 2020. The runtime and SDK remain a solution for building applications and games that run across desktop and mobile environments, including content authored with tools such as Adobe Animate. HARMAN funds ongoing work through a commercial licensing model while offering a complimentary tier for hobbyists and low-income developers.

Project stewardship and licensing model

Adobe stopped providing AIR directly at the end of 2020; HARMAN entered into an agreement to continue maintaining the runtime and SDK.
Unlike when Adobe subsidized AIR through revenue from other commercial products, HARMAN’s investment in the platform is supported by paid SDK licenses. A no-cost tier is retained to keep the platform accessible to smaller creators.
Revenue from these licenses underwrites maintenance, platform updates, and new feature development to keep AIR competitive for rapid cross-platform development.

What the SDK enables

Rapid creation of interactive applications and games for multiple operating systems, including animated content produced with timeline-based tools.
Deployment flexibility: developers can target specific host platforms or generate universal installer formats that rely on a shared AIR runtime.
Support for modern mobile packaging and 64-bit builds to comply with current app store and OS requirements.

Platform support and build details

Desktop: AIR runs on several PC operating systems and supports both platform-specific builds and generic .air installers that use a common runtime.
Mobile: the SDK supports the two leading mobile OSes and now focuses on producing 64-bit application packages and current app-bundling standards.
Build workflow note: developers use the AIR SDK from a compatible desktop development environment to produce mobile packages; some packages for one mobile platform can be created from any supported SDK host, but certain platform-specific builds require a matching desktop OS.

Current engineering priorities

Addressing bugs and stabilizing runtimes to improve reliability and performance.
Introducing new features driven by real-world developer needs.
Moving development efforts toward full 64-bit support; legacy 32-bit output for some devices is being deprecated and may no longer be available in recent SDK releases.

Community input and roadmap

Prioritization of fixes and enhancements is community-driven: feedback from AIR developers helps define what gets addressed next.
HARMAN plans to continue evolving the SDK with a focus on performance, stability, and broader platform compatibility to ensure AIR remains useful for cross-platform app and game development.