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AIR, ActionScript, Adobe, Android, Apple, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 11, News
Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 Launched
Andrei Ionescu | 04.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

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 [...]
ActionScript, Adobe, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Flash Player 10.2, Flash Player 10.3, Flash Player 11, Media, Mobile, News, OSMF, SMP, Video
OSMF 1.6 and Strobe Media Playback 1.6 Released
Andrei Ionescu | 09.09.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe just released the version 1.6 of both OSMF and Strobe Media Playback. The main things added to them are:

Stage Video support for hardware-accelerated video presentation (OSMF)
Smartphone and tablet optimized chrome for Flash-enabled devices (Strobe Media Playback)
HTML5 video player for non-Flash devices (Strobe Media Playback)
JavaScript device detection library for selecting the appropriate player and chrome [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.3, News
Flash Player 10.3 Beta Now Available
Andrei Ionescu | 08.03.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta is launched and can be downloaded from Adobe Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10-3.html. Flash Player 10.3 is available for all major operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux) and debug version is also available.
New features 10 Flash Player 10.3:

Media Measurement – Measuring video just got easier. With Flash Player 10.3 and Adobe SiteCatalyst®, developers [...]
3D, AIR, ActionScript, Adobe, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 11
Adobe® AIR® and Adobe Flash® Player Incubator – Flash Player 11 Available
Andrei Ionescu | 01.03.11 | Permalink | Comment?

The Adobe® AIR® and Adobe Flash® Player Incubator is a technology preview program for more adventurous developers who are willing to experiment with Flash Platform runtime features that are in early development stages. Test the bleeding-edge capabilities of runtimes and contribute to the future of the Flash Platform. Please note that the capabilities in the [...]
Adobe, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.2, Mobile
Flash Player 10.2 is Launched
Andrei Ionescu | 11.02.11 | Permalink | Comment?

On 8 February 2011 Adobe launched the new Flash Player 10.2. The best new thing in this new version of the Flash Player is Stage Video, a full hardware accelerated video pipeline for best-in-class, beautiful video across platforms and browsers.
Additional features are:

multiple display full screen support in Flash Player 10.2
custom native mouse cursors
sub-pixel text rendering [...]
Adobe, Android, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Mobile
Flash Player 10.1 Enabled Devices
Andrei Ionescu | 18.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

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.
Adobe, Android, Apple, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, News
Adobe Is Resuming Development on The Packager for iPhone
Andrei Ionescu | 14.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

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 [...]
Adobe, Android, Apple, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, News
Apple Starting Love Adobe by Relaxing App Store Review Guidelines?
Andrei Ionescu | 09.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

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. [...]
Augmented Reality, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Flex 4 SDK
Augmented Reality for Online Shopping
Andrei Ionescu | 06.09.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

Today I came across the following video…

The application in the video is a virtual dressing room! You can try out the clothes you want to buy in your living room and then purchase them if you like how they fit you or send the image to your friends on Facebook. What [...]
Adobe, Android, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Mobile
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on Motorola Droid 2
Andrei Ionescu | 11.08.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

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 [...]
Adobe, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, News
Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 7 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux
Andrei Ionescu | 03.06.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday Adobe did release Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 7.
This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. Consumers can try the prerelease of Flash Player 10.1 to preview hardware acceleration of video on supported Windows PCs, [...]
Android, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, News
Flash Player “Gala” Preview 2 for Mac OS 10.6.3 Released on AdobeLabs
Andrei Ionescu | 26.05.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 [...]
Adobe, Flash, Flash Player
The Truth About Flash Player
Andrei Ionescu | 14.05.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Adobe published a few numbers about Flash Player, numbers that we may already know:

98% of Internet connected PCs have Flash Player
85% of the top 100 websites use Flash Player (Alexa)
75% of web video is viewed using Flash Player (Comscore)
98% of enterprises rely on Flash Player (Forrester)
70% of web games are delivered using Flash Player (Evans [...]
Adobe, Android, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Mobile
Flash Player 10.1 on Android Froyo 2.2
Andrei Ionescu | 13.05.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

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. [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Mobile, News
Adobe Stops Development for iPhone
Andrei Ionescu | 22.04.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

Two day ago, Mike Chamber, Principal Product Manager at Adobe announced that there will not be any future investment in iPhone based Flash development.
This is the response after Apple put out a new draft of its iPhone developer program license, which banned private APIs and required apps to be written in Objective-C, C, C++, [...]

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