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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 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…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A very recent news on Zdnet announced that there is an very serious exploit that Adobe Flash Players 9.0.115.0 and 9.0.124.0 are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.
The link to the whole story is here.
As we promised we are back with a tutorial on how to build Flex applications for Astro flash player. This will be a step by step tutorial which is intended to help you install the last Flex SDK from daily builds. So let’s start…
1) Get the Flex SDK Daily build.
2) Create a new folder: “3.0.1.1739“.
3) [...]
Today I installed Astro! What I did to be able to still develop and debug flash player 9 applications? I installed the Flash Player 10 just for Firefox and for debug I’m using IE. You can inverse it and install the ActiveX for IE and keep Firefox with the flash player 9.
The links to [...]