ANE for one platform on Flex mobile project for iOS and Android

Question

I'm very new at Flex Mobile Projects and native extension.

I have a big doubt... If I have an ANE that only works on iOS or Android, can I use it into a project for Android AND iOS?

I mean, if I want to do something and I've only found and ANE that works for iOS and another ANE that works for Android, can I create only one project and depending on the device use one or another? or should I create two different projects?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You should be able to correctly code using two different ANE's, one for each platform, but it does really depend on the ANE.

Most provide a isSupported flag to allow you to determine programmatically whether the extension is supported on the current platform.

if (ExtensionA.isSupported)
{
    // Use extension A
}
else if (ExtensionB.isSupported)
{
    // Use extension B
}

It's also worth noting that if the extension isn't correctly implementing a "default" version (i.e. one that gets used on unsupported platforms) this may fail. Really comes down to the ANE implementation.