Adobe AIR Application Installer
The Adobe AIR Application Installer is a system utility bundled with the Adobe AIR runtime environment. It handles the installation and uninstallation of AIR-based applications on macOS. Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) was a cross-platform application framework that allowed developers to build desktop applications using web technologies (ActionScript, MXML, HTML, JavaScript, etc.) and deploy them across macOS, Windows and Linux. While AIR was once widely used for rich desktop applications, Adobe formally ended support for the platform in 2013, though the runtime remained available for legacy applications.
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1 suggestionThe Adobe AIR runtime and its associated installer have been unsupported since 2013, and no native Apple Silicon build has ever been released. The installer itself is an Intel-only utility that currently runs under Rosetta 2 on M-series Macs, but will stop functioning entirely when Apple removes Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028). If you still have AIR-based applications you depend on, you should begin planning their migration now. Contact the application vendor to ask whether they have updated their product to a native macOS app or web-based equivalent. If the AIR applications are in-house tools, consider whether they can be rebuilt as native Swift/Cocoa apps or web applications. Any AIR applications left running on Intel-only Rosetta will become completely unusable in fewer than 30 months.
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