Compiling Flex Hero Apps with MXMLC in ANT

Posted by: Terry Ryan on December 9, 2010

I ran into a problem today trying to use ANT to publish the same AIR application to BlackBerry and Android at the same time. Basically, when I used Flash Builder Burrito to push directly to a device for either platform it worked perfectly. When I did it via the ANT script I just got a white screen.

The cause: I had the wrong config loaded. I had air-config.xml as the configuration, and needed airmobile-config.xml as the configuration.

Took me a bit, but I figured it out. So if you're looking to compile your Hero apps via ANT, use the right config.

Terry Ryan's complete blog can be found at: http://terrenceryan.com/blog/

About Terry Ryan

Terry Ryan is a Worldwide Developer Evangelist for Adobe. The job basically entails helping developers using Adobe technologies to be successful. His focus is on web and mobile technologies including expertise in both Flash and HTML. Previous to that, he spent a decade working in various technical roles at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Terry is also the author of Driving Technical Change, a Pragmatic Bookshelf title. It's about convincing reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and ideas.

He blogs at http://terrenceryan.com/blog and is tpryan on Twitter.