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 [...]
In about 20 minutes the keynote of Adobe Max 2011 Conference will start. Access it live at http://max.adobe.com/online/keynote/.
What is Adobe MAX?
Adobe MAX is the place where technology and artistry converge. If you are a designer, developer, or a business decision-maker, join us for the year’s most exciting exchange of ideas and inspiration.
Enjoy the Adobe MAX [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Yesterday, Adobe has released AIR 2.0 runtime and can be downloaded at get.adobe.com/air/.
The new things in AIR 2.0 are:
New Webkit with additional HTML5 and CSS3 support
Multitouch and gestures
Enhanced drag-and-drop support
Enhanced socket support
Enhanced printer interaction
DNS resolution
Local microphone API
Native document handlers to open document
Native process APIs
Native installer
Socket servers and peer-to-peer networking
TLS/SSL sockets
UDP networking support
Global error handler
IPv6 network [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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++, [...]
A new version of Flash Player 10.1 has been released: Flash Player 10.1 beta 3. I summarized what’s new from the release notes bellow.
Support for new platforms
Designed for mobility
Developer productivity
Enhanced browser integration
Expanded options for high quality media delivery
Lots of fixed bugs are included in this release, bugs from graphics, networking, audio/video, text input, etc. More [...]
Today, 2nd of February 2010 Adobe did launch Adobe AIR 2.0 beta 2. The first beta release of AIR 2 was in November 2009 and after 3 months Adobe AIR 2.0 is almost ready for release. Good job AIR team!
Some features and enhancement:
Print Job Enhancements – better control of the way content is printed [...]
Today, Apple just announced the new iPad device. Great peace of work… and a better news is that the developers will be able to develop applications for iPad using the Flash Pro CS5. You may already know that we are able to develop applications for iPhone using Flash Pro CS5. Following that path, making applications [...]
Last week some updates where released by Adobe on the following products:
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Adobe Flash Media Server
All of them are updates containing bug fixes and performance improvements. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional 10.0.2 Hotfix targets the Mac Pro desktops, Adobe Flash Player 10 Security Release Update for Flash CS4 Professional do fix this security issues [...]