With this post I am announcing the end of MyFlashLabs services. It will no longer be possible to make new purchases through the website. If you are using any of our ANEs in your apps at the moment, you should not worry. Everything will continue to work normally and the software will be accessible till the end of your current subscription. In the meanwhile, you will have time to switch to another ANE provider.
It is very hard and heartbreaking for me to be writing this. But the ANE business has not been profitable for us for a long time. Up to mid 2019, the business was growing nicely but when Adobe left AIR, we lost a lot of customers and things started to go harsh. Although Harman support for AIR has been awesome and lovely since then, the business was never able to gain the power it had before. We tried hard to keep things go as smooth as possible but it didn’t work and we lost interest gradually. We even tried to offer the ANEs’ sale-license to Harman but there was not enough interest there neither. Little by little we shifted our focus to other fields.
However, I am super happy that I had the chance to be serving the AIR community in the field of ANEs since 2013. It’s been a great journey and I had the pleasure of knowing and working with the great AIR community. I’m sure I will miss that.
We have thought of open-sourcing the ANEs but it would be useless too because we know that we will not be able to maintain them at the current stage. And there are already a few open source ANEs out there which the community is not paying attention to.
We were in the middle of a very big release for the ANELAB software which would bring ANE implementation in AIR projects to the next level by automating almost everything and generating dependency ANEs on the fly using Gradle. But with this announcement that work is also stopped.
Nevertheless, I wouldn’t call this a complete shutdown. I would say a pause! If things about AIR flourish again, I’d be more than happy to come back and setup the team again. Even if that happens, I’m sure it will be focused on automation and the recent work we’ve been doing on ANELAB software rather than providing raw ANE files.
MyFlashLabs sunset
Hi dear AIR Developers,
With this post I am announcing the end of MyFlashLabs services. It will no longer be possible to make new purchases through the website. If you are using any of our ANEs in your apps at the moment, you should not worry. Everything will continue to work normally and the software will be accessible till the end of your current subscription. In the meanwhile, you will have time to switch to another ANE provider.
It is very hard and heartbreaking for me to be writing this. But the ANE business has not been profitable for us for a long time. Up to mid 2019, the business was growing nicely but when Adobe left AIR, we lost a lot of customers and things started to go harsh. Although Harman support for AIR has been awesome and lovely since then, the business was never able to gain the power it had before. We tried hard to keep things go as smooth as possible but it didn’t work and we lost interest gradually. We even tried to offer the ANEs’ sale-license to Harman but there was not enough interest there neither. Little by little we shifted our focus to other fields.
However, I am super happy that I had the chance to be serving the AIR community in the field of ANEs since 2013. It’s been a great journey and I had the pleasure of knowing and working with the great AIR community. I’m sure I will miss that.
We have thought of open-sourcing the ANEs but it would be useless too because we know that we will not be able to maintain them at the current stage. And there are already a few open source ANEs out there which the community is not paying attention to.
We were in the middle of a very big release for the ANELAB software which would bring ANE implementation in AIR projects to the next level by automating almost everything and generating dependency ANEs on the fly using Gradle. But with this announcement that work is also stopped.
Nevertheless, I wouldn’t call this a complete shutdown. I would say a pause! If things about AIR flourish again, I’d be more than happy to come back and setup the team again. Even if that happens, I’m sure it will be focused on automation and the recent work we’ve been doing on ANELAB software rather than providing raw ANE files.
Thanks,
Hadi
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