Is it possible to change the minimum Flash Player required to version 10.2 for Flex 4.6 SDK? Currently the minimum required by the SDK is 11.1.
If it is possible to change it what would happen when someone views our application in Flash Player 10.2? Will it still run? Are there API’s that we can stay away from in our Application? You know what I’m trying to say…
Unfortunately the answer to that is: it depends.
It depends on which features of Flash Player you use. If nothing in your application uses any new features, it will run seamlessly in an older VM.
However it could be a daunting task to find out if there are any dependencies, because they could be buried deep in the Flex framework. So basically you would have to know the framework code from end to end. Or you’d just have to test your application in the older VM and see if everything still works as expected.
If you wish to target a different player version than the default, use the
target-playercompiler option; e.g.: