Now that MAX 2011 Conference is started, Adobe just launched the Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. Take a look at the features introduced by each of them.
Flash Player 11 features
Native 64-bit support (Flash Player desktop)
Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering
Adobe Flash Access content protection support for mobile
Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) support
G.711 audio compression for [...]
Yesterday, 11th of April, Adobe announced Creative Suite 5.5.
Besides all new features and improvements introduced in the new CS5.5, part of them presented in the previous video and some listed bellow, another new thing introduced with Creative Suite 5.5 is the “Pay as you go” subscription. Besides buying the whole product now the products [...]
A while ago Adobe has release AIR 2.6 for Android, iOS and desktop. These are the new things in AIR 2.6:
Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding. This features allows bitmaps to optionally be decoded in another thread as opposed to on-demand in the main thread.
Owned Windows. The use case for owned windows is primarily things like tool palettes. [...]
Adobe has announced new technologies on Flex Framework. These are:
Adobe Flash Builder “Burrito”
Adobe Flash Catalyst “Panini”
Adobe Flex SDK “Hero”
Mobile Application Development with Flex and Flash Builder
Each of them have new features, improvements and integration work-flows added and you can test all these new technologies on Adobe Lab. If you like to see some samples go [...]
Flash Player 10.1 for Android has been released to different partners and a few mobile devices now do use Flash Player 10.1.
Google
Nexus One
HTC
Evo 4G
Desire
Motorola
Droid
Droid 2
Droid X
Also, you can see the list on adobe.com. Today there are six but the number is increasing and I’m sure other devices will emerge.
In the previous article Apple let us know that they are relaxing the App Store Review Guidelines. This is great moment and Adobe could not miss it. Adobe’s Packager for iPhone is already available in the Flash Professional CS5 and Adobe is resuming development on it.
Although this is a big step forward, Apple’s restriction on [...]
Previously Apple restricted the application development for iPod, iPhone & iPad and excluded a number of technologies like Unity, Titanium, MonoTouch, and Flash CS5, but no limited to these.
See the following articles that explains the limitations:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/apple-puts-another-nail-into-flashs-coffin/6554
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/04/20/on-adobe-flash-cs5-and-iphone-applications/
As a result to this restrictions Adobe has stopped the development for the iPhone.
Apple implied about Adobe…
They are lazy. [...]
Today, 11th of August, Motorola launches Droid 2 mobile phone on Verizon mobile network and it will be available in stores on 12th of August. The important is that this is the first mobile phone that comes with Flash Player 10.1 out of the box.
Droid 2 is running Android [...]
Serge Jespers did post an article regarding the new application Innovation Mecom has built for Dräger Carina medical device. The application is a simulation that reproduces all functions of the real device. So it is possible to get a real good impression of it even without using a real device.
Watch the following demo about [...]
Last two week I seen two great applications that make use of multi-screen experience capabilities of Flash Platform.
Androideroids by Grant Skinner
Desktop MP3 Music Player by Mihai Corlan
The first is a prototype multiplayer asteroids game in which each player uses an Android phone as their game controller. The player connects to the game and [...]
Half a day ago new versions of Flash Player were released. I’m talking about Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 6, Flash Player “Gala” for Mac OS X 10.6.3, Flash Player 10.1 for Android and a few other versions.
Flash Player “Gala” introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3 which should reduce [...]
Couple of days ago Ryan Stewart, Evangelist for Adobe, presented the latest version of Flash Player on Android. The versions we are talking about are 10.1 for Flash Player and 2.2 for Android (Froyo). He shows up the http://ecodazoo.com/ a full 3D flash site, Google Finance (http://www.google.com/finance?q=adbe), How I met your mother from CBS, etc. [...]