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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 [...]
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. [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Android, Flash, Flex in the world, MXML, Made in Flex, Mobile
Two New Apps with Multi-Screen Experince
Andrei Ionescu | 06.07.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 [...]
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 [...]
Flash, Flash Player, News, Uncategorized
First Full Flash Player for Mobile Devices and PCs from Adobe
Andrei Ionescu | 05.10.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Today, Adobe unveiled Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are.
A public beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and [...]
AIR, Bugs, Flash, Flash Player, Security
New Versions of Flash Player and AIR Available
Andrei Ionescu | 03.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
Debug, Flash Player
Flash Player 10 Debug Version
Andrei Ionescu | 24.10.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I think many of you want to develop applications for Flash Player 10 using Flex but without a debugger this is almost impossible. So if you want the Flash Player 10 Debug version directly download this archive from Adobe.
More about this on this page where you can find many other versions of flash player: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=1.
Flash Player
Flash Player 10 Released
Andrei Ionescu | 15.10.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

YES! Flash Player 10 is out! Go here and install it. The current version is 10,0,12,36.
What is new?

3D effects
Custom filters
Advanced text support
Drawing API
Hardware acceleration
Dynamic sound generation
File upload and download APIs
Vector data type
Speex audio codec
Large bitmap support
Color management
Image import
Dynamic streaming
Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP)
Full-screen playback
New text engine
Pixel Bender
Anti-aliasing engine (Saffron 3.1)
Enhanced read/write clipboard access
Enhanced [...]
Flash Player, Flex news
Flash Player 10 Debug is Out
Andrei Ionescu | 18.08.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

Flash Player 10 (“Astro”) Debug version is out. You can find it here: http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/in/player/10/.
I the a previous article I explained how you can build a Flash Player 10 application using Flex SDK and here it is: http://www.flexer.info/2008/05/21/how-to-build-flash-player-10-applications-using-flex-sdk/.
From now on we are looking for new Flash Player 10 applications…
Flash Player, Flex news
Some Stats About Flash Player and Browsers
Andrei Ionescu | 01.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Some interesting stats where published by Adobe:

99% of internet users do have Flash Player on their machine (98,8% from Google study)
80% of internet users do have Flash Player version 9.0.115 on their machines
99% of PC internet users do have Flash Player on their machine

This is great news. Almost any computer connected to the internet does [...]
Flash Player, Flex news
Flash Player 10 Beta 2 Released
Andrei Ionescu | 04.07.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Astro is getting closer to a release. A new beta version is out and you can read the announcement on Adobe’s site: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/. Please read also the release notes here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.html.
What is new? To be short…

Fullscreen Keyboard Access – now you can catch key events for non-printing keys (arrows, shift, enter, tab, space, etc)
Enhanced Audio [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2
Flex Builder cannot locate the required version of Flash Player Error: Firefox & FP 9.0.124
Andrei Ionescu | 02.06.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

Today I upgraded my flash player to version 9.0.124 and I’m referring to the debug version of it.
The upgrade went OK on IE, I downloaded the version for IE from Adobe’s download page (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flashplayer_9_ax_debug.exe), I installed it and everything worked out.
I was thinking: “Great! That was easy! Let’s do it for Firefox also…”. I [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Security
0 Day Expoit in Flash Player.. Not so real
Virgil Cristea | 31.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

In a previous article in this series I told you about a reported exploit for Adobe Flash Player. It seems that the security bulletin that this exploit was based upon was released before the version 9.0.124.0 of the Player. Reading the latest security bulletin Adobe informs us that the exploit is not applicable to this [...]

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