So I’ve been working on this Adobe Air app for Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine. We were putting the finishing touches on it last night and were testing the automatic update feature available via the Adobe Air Update Framework. I had successfully tested this numerous times on my computer. However, for some reason, the update was failing with an error code of 16828. Hmmm…
As it turns out, the updating process will FAIL if the air application currently installed on the computer was installed via a native OS installer. In other words, when you go to package up your application, and you compile to a .exe file or a .dmg file and then proceed to install the application using either one of those files, the Update Framework will not be able to successfully update the application, citing error 16828. This is a pretty big oversight by Adobe, and is current as of Adobe Air 2.6.
Hopefully they will fix this, but in the meantime, you can still package your installers as .air files and the updates will be successful! Let me know in the comments if this has helped you, or if you’re still having problems.
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