Adobe AIR issues with iOS 8 and poor performance

Question

Problem Description:

We have two (distributed!) iOS apps built for Adobe AIR:

• One uses the pure native AS3/AIR capabilities (vector graphics, integrating swc's from Adobe Flash, etc.).
• Another one uses Starling and DragonBones as game/animation engines.

Upgrading our devices (for example, iPad 3) from iOS 7.1.2 to iOS 8.0.2, we encounter numerous bugs and performance decrease:

• Screen flickers to black every few seconds.
• MANY memory warnings that were not there before.
• Animations stop working after interacting with the UI - for example after MOUSE_UP event on any interactive display object, all the animations are skipped - MovieClips skip to last frame immediately.
• Animations get stuck in the middle if user interacts while they’re playing.
• Sound playing issues - sounds can work ok after launch, but then randomly stop and never come back. Sometimes though in some of the screens sounds won’t work at all.
• Sound recording (via normal Microphone.getMicrophone()) stops working at some point.

Environment:

All of the above are bugs discovered ONLY in iOS 8 and with different devices and different apps with different technologies (Starling / not). Besides AIR SDK 15, problems happened also with AIR SDK versions 14, 13, and even 4.

Basically I can say that our apps are useless under iOS 8 and AIR SDK. We have other native apps that made the 7>8 transition with no problem, so it must be an AIR issue.

iOS 8 should work like it does under iOS 7.

Anyone also encountered these issues? any suggestions?

Here's also a bug report I posted in Adobe Bugbase system:

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3835391

Answer 1

Please update your AIR SDK and re-compile it again. Here is the link http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html. Select your version.

Actual version is 15.0.0.302 from the Labs. It contain a lot of iOS8 fixes. I'm not sure if this can help but just try to do this.