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Adobe AIR for iOS in IntelliJ IDEA 12 Leda

October 5th, 2012 by Alexander Doroshko

We are pleased to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 12 will support new features of Adobe AIR SDK 3.4. They are designed to simplify iOS apps development process:

  • Run/debug AIR applications on iOS Simulator (Mac OS X only)
  • Debug iOS apps on device both over USB or network
  • Single-click iOS app deployment to the device without the need to manually install it using iTunes


You’ll find these options on the Flash run configuration dialog via Run | Edit Configurations.

This feature requires AIR SDK 3.4 or higher.

Since AIR SDK 3.4 isn’t bundled with the latest Adobe Flex SDK 4.6 or Apache Flex SDK 4.8, you need to download it manually and copy it over your Flex SDK.

Note also that Mac users shouldn’t copy AIR SDK files using Finder, because Finder replaces folders. You need to replace individual files preserving the folder structure. Instead run the following command line from Terminal:

ditto air_sdk_folder flex_sdk_folder


Make sure you have installed iTunes 10.5.0 or higher on your computer, for direct deployment to an iOS device.

You can try this feature in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP.

As always, feedback is very much welcome on our forum and in our issue tracker.

Develop with pleasure!

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8 Responses to “Adobe AIR for iOS in IntelliJ IDEA 12 Leda”

  1. Gellard Says:
    October 5th, 2012 at 9:03 am

    Realy nice! Thx.

  2. miguel Says:
    October 5th, 2012 at 11:08 am

    Nice! And what about Flexunit support for mobile projects? Any update?

  3. John Dewar Says:
    October 7th, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    There’s a combination Flex/Air SDK available here: http://gaming.adobe.com/getstarted/

  4. Alexander Doroshko Says:
    October 8th, 2012 at 1:37 am

    @miguel please vote/watch http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-68482

  5. Derek Says:
    January 28th, 2013 at 12:26 pm

    Trying to add the Adobe Gaming SDK but Intellij 12 Ultimate doesn’t recognize it’s home directory as valid. Am I missing something?

  6. Alexander Doroshko Says:
    January 29th, 2013 at 4:14 am

    @Derek. Indeed IntellilJ IDEA requires Flex SDK that includes AIR SDK. See workaround here: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-99981

  7. Jesse Pinuelas Says:
    April 23rd, 2013 at 4:08 am

    Feature saves a good amount of time. Ran into a few issues deploying it to iOS simulator but other than that works great.

  8. Alexander Doroshko Says:
    April 24th, 2013 at 2:57 am

    Jesse, can you please give details on the issues if they are related to the IDE? Forum or issue tracker are the best places for your feedback:
    http://devnet.jetbrains.net/community/idea/ideacommunity
    http://youtrack.jetbrains.net

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