Posts in Category "AIR"

Adobe Flash Player 11.7 and AIR 3.7 Now Available!

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Tareq Aljaber | Comments (1)

Over the past 3 months we have been hard at work on the next version (Code name: Geary) of Flash Player and AIR. Our main focus in this release of Flash Player was to improve the sandboxing feature that was introduced in earlier versions.

In addition to improving Flash Player security through sandboxing enhancements, we’ve also fixed high priority bugs and issues that were reported by our community and partners.

Similarly we have been focusing on making AIR 3.7 a world-class platform to build your apps for Android and iOS platforms. In this release, we are introducing exciting features such as capability to host swf files on an external server which can then be download by your iOS applications at runtime, and support for gamepads on Android devices (like Ouya TV). Amongst a couple of other features, this release also addresses the need of preventing backup of shared objects, if required by your iOS application to comply with Apple guidelines.

Also the Flash Pro team has recently provided a glimpse of their next generation tool. Check out this quick tour:

We encourage you to continue provide your feedback and comments and stay tuned for more exciting features.

Tareq Aljaber
Product Marketing Manager – Web Segment

iPad mini Support is Now Available!

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Tareq Aljaber | Comments (1)

We are excited to announce the availability of an update to AIR 3.5 and Flash Player 11.5. Developers can now create games and apps targeting iPad mini with AIR 3.5. We have also included security and bug fixes to Flash Player.

We look forward to get your feedback and comments.

Adobe Flash Player 11.5 and AIR 3.5 now available

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Tareq Aljaber | Comments (0)

We are excited to announce the release of Adobe Flash Player 11.5 and AIR 3.5. This release is primarily focused on security and stability enhancements and includes iOS and debugging improvements as well.

With Flash Player 11.5 and AIR 3.5, the debugging workflow has been improved through a feature that allows developers to obtain a stack trace even from a release build. Additionally, developers can publish and package apps targeting iOS 6.0 with AIR 3.5. Click here to learn more about all the new features in AIR 3.5 and Flash Player 11.5.

We encourage you to download AIR 3.5 and Flash Player 11.5 and unleash your creativity. Please follow us on Twitter (@FlashPlayerBeta) and Like us on Facebook.com/AdobeAir to stay updated on upcoming beta builds and features.

 

Go DRY

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Tareq Aljaber | Comments (1)

Building mobile apps is at the same time exciting and challenging for developers. The pace of technology and tool advancement is exciting, yet the ever-growing list of platforms and devices poses significant challenges.

With all this technology, there are many solutions to help you to build and create the apps you want to reach the platforms and devices you care about. Broadly, these manifest in two categories: native and cross platform.  Go “native” if you have good knowledge of both Objective C for iOS and Java for Android and can afford the time developing for both environments. A cross platform solution, though, will enable you to learn and program in a single environment.

This is where Adobe and AIR comes in. With Adobe AIR, you can deliver Flash Player browser content as an application.  Leverage the tools you are familiar with, like Flash Professional and ActionScript 3.0. With a few simple changes and clicks, you can publish the same code to iOS and Android: no major re-architecture or new languages to learn. This is what our friends at Gree call DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself).

Having one code base can help cut your debugging, testing, and development costs. This is what you get when you go with Adobe AIR. No need to do things two or three times when you can do it once with Adobe AIR.

15,000+ iOS and Android apps have been built, submitted, and approved using Adobe AIR. For example, Machinarium was built using Adobe AIR for iOS and Android devices. NBC Universal’s Olympic applications used Adobe AIR to deliver Olympic content to millions of devices. You can see some of the best games through the showcases at the Adobe Gaming site (http://gaming.adobe.com/).

Check out this cool video demonstrating one code base running across desktop, Android, and iOS all connected through p2P:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-JH35CyagE

Maybe you, too, can go DRY!

Enabling the web and app development with new bleeding edge technology – Flash Player 11.4 and AIR 3.4

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Tareq Aljaber | Comments (0)

We’re proud to announce the release of Flash Player 11.4 and AIR 3.4. Flash Player 11.4 takes game development to a new level with the new ActionScript Concurrency (ActionScript workers) feature, which helps developers create more responsive games and apps by offloading tasks and computations to background workers. Game content is more responsive as these workers run concurrently to leverage more machine resources while helping to avoid UI freezes and other events that slow down game play.

In addition to concurrency, Flash Player 11.4 adds other core features, including webcam support for StageVideo so Flash Player can utilize GPU acceleration to render better performing webcam video streams. And now Stage3D content can run in hardware accelerated mode on broader range of desktop GPUs/ hardware, particularly on the Intel GMA chipsets, thanks to Stage3D constrained mode. In addition, the Starling framework has been updated to be constrained mode ready.

You might ask, how many end users can enjoy these new release features? Over 400 million users have already installed Flash Player 11.2, and with background auto-update, a feature we released in Flash Player 11.2, these 400 million connected users get updated within 6 weeks of every new release. And there are many more factoids on Flash Player reach here.

With the release of AIR 3.4, we are introducing several enhancements to our support for iOS app developers. Key features include iOS push notifications, iOS 5.1 SDK support, compressed texture with alpha for stage3D and Webcam support for StageVideo. Click here to learn more about AIR 3.4 features including features that apply to the iOS platform.

A great platform requires great tooling so we are also providing a Flash Builder 4.7 beta on labs in the last week of August. It will have support for Apache Flex 4.8, support for Flash Player 11.4 and AIR 3.4 and many improvements to iOS app development workflows including USB debugging, iOS simulator support, and direct on-device deployment.

 

Screenshot of iOS feature in Flash Builder 4.7 Beta

Screenshot of iOS feature in Flash Builder 4.7 Beta

 

A Flash Professional updater will be released in early September and will have many exciting features for you to choose from and experiment with, including ToolKit CreateJS 1.1, support for Flash Player 11.4 and AIR 3.4, improved iOS app development workflows including iOS simulator support, and direct on-device deployment.

 

Screenshot of iOS Simulation in Flash Professional

Screenshot of iOS Simulation in Flash Professional

We’re excited to see what you build with these new releases. For more information on gaming development, please visit the Adobe Gaming site.

Introducing AIR 3.3 and Flash Player 11.3

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Tareq Aljaber | Comments (0)

We are very excited to bring you Flash Player 11.3 and AIR 3.3.  With the AIR 3.3 SDK, Flash developers can now create expressive mobile apps and native extensions that target iOS5.1. In addition, this new version of the AIR runtime includes packaging support for iOS5.1 on Windows as well as iPad3 retina display capabilities.

AIR 3.3 brings easier application deployment on devices, improvements like texture streaming support for Stage3D and stylus support for Android 4.0. It also throttles resource usage when games or applications are running in background.

In addition to the enhancements in AIR 3.3, we are introducing new features in Flash Player 11.3 to enable more immersive experiences, especially for gaming. Developers can now build games allowing users complete keyboard input while remaining in full screen mode, preserving full throttled immersion in games.

To see what people are already building with AIR and Flash Player today, make sure to go to gaming.adobe.com/showcase. Don’t forget to check out Starling, the 2D GPU framework for game development on Stage3D. We recently announced the roadmap showcasing the latest games produced with Starling.

Interested in hearing more about developing mobile apps or games? Have some questions? Join us for a series of live webinars starting June 21, 2012 that teach you how to create Flash apps for iOS. Register here, and start bringing your Flash games and apps to life!

Flash – Chrome for Android Beta

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Bill Howard | Comments (0)

Today Google introduced Chrome for Android Beta. As we announced last November, Adobe is no longer developing Flash Player for mobile browsers, and thus Chrome for Android Beta does not support Flash content. Flash Player continues to be supported within the current Android browser.

Adobe is committed to innovating with Flash. We’ll continue enabling content developers to produce rich and immersive applications on mobile devices and PCs via Adobe AIR, and through PC browsers via Flash Player. Flash is uniquely positioned for creating and publishing advanced gaming and premium video content, and that is where we’re focusing our future investment. We recently released hardware accelerated support for 2D and 3D graphics for Flash Player on the desktop and will soon bring these same capabilities to mobile apps via AIR. Together with recent advancements in hardware accelerated video decoding, compositing and content protection, these capabilities provide the richest platform for game developers and video publishers to reach over a billion users across PCs and major mobile app stores, including the iTunes App Store and Android Market.

At the same time, we’re actively working to move HTML5 forward via our ongoing collaboration with Google and other members of the Web community. Adobe’s proposal for CSS Regions, which allows sophisticated, magazine-like page layouts on the web, is now shipping in the Chrome browser. We’re collaborating with Google and other members of the Web community on a proposal for CSS Shaders to enable cinematic, visual effects via HTML5 and we’re exploring the potential of its Shadow DOM proposal, which would enable the integration of rich user interface components in web pages.

We continue to work on ways to make the Web more expressive, drawing on our experience with Flash. Adobe has always been about enabling content developers to produce the richest content possible and we remain committed to that end across platforms and technologies.

Bill Howard, Flash Platform, Product Management

 

Flash Player and AIR Support for the Galaxy Nexus

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Alex Dewey | Comments (0)

We’ve received some questions regarding support for Adobe Flash Player 11.1 and AIR 3.1 on the Galaxy Nexus. To be clear, the Galaxy Nexus does not initially support Adobe Flash Player 11.1 and AIR 3.1. As we previously communicated in a blog post, devices and software updates from our partners which introduce new technologies are being developed on varied schedules that are different from our own, which means that the Adobe runtimes may not always be optimized or supported on devices until a subsequent release. We will provide a minor update to the runtimes to support the Galaxy Nexus in December.

Greg DeMichillie is the Senior Director of Product Management for Interactive Development