The Adobe® Flash® Platform is an integrated set of technologies surrounded by an established ecosystem of support programs, business partners, and enthusiastic user communities. Together, they provide everything you need to create and deliver the most compelling applications, content, and video to the widest possible audience.
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Labs Technologies
- Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 beta 2 (formerly Flex Builder) released on Oct 5, 2009
Flash Builder 4 is a professional-grade, Eclipse™ based IDE designed to help software developers build cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the open source Flex framework. - Adobe Flash Catalyst™ beta 2 released on Oct 5, 2009
Previously codenamed "Thermo," Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding. - Adobe Flex® 4 SDK beta 2 released on Oct 5, 2009
The Adobe Flex 4 SDK provides the core Flex framework component library, Flex compilers, and debugger. Using only the free SDK and an IDE of your choice, you can build and deploy rich Flex applications. (If you are using Flash Builder 4, the SDK is already included.) - Packager for iPhone
Publish ActionScript 3® projects in Adobe Flash Professional to run as applications for iPhone. - Adobe Flash Player 10.1
The first release that enables Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices. - Adobe AIR 2
AIR 2 gives developers new capabilities, and even tighter integration with the desktop. - Stratus
A hosted rendezvous service for establishing communications between Flash Player clients and Adobe AIR endpoints using RTMFP. - Text Layout Framework
An extensible library that delivers sophisticated and innovative typography in Adobe Flash Player 10. - Adobe Flash Player 10 64-Bit Linux
A 64-bit version of the Flash Player for Linux operating systems. - Adobe Flash Lite for BREW® Publisher for Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional
An update of the Flash Lite for BREW Publisher for Flash CS3. - Flash-Ajax Video Component
Add this small Flash component to your projects and provide video playback within an Ajax application.
Other Resources
- Adobe Flash Platform
Learn more about Adobe Flash platform. - Adobe Developer Center
Tutorials, samples, articles, and other resources to help you master Flash. - Adobe Support Forums
Get help, suggestions and advice from the Flash community.
Formerly on Labs
- Adobe AIR update for Flash® CS3 Professional
Package and preview .air files directly within Flash CS3 Professional. This technology shipped on February 25, 2008. - Distributable Player Solution
The Distributable Player Solution beta has ended and the program has been cancelled. The solution is no longer available and will not be brought into production. - Adobe Flash Collaboration Service
Formerly codenamed "Cocomo," a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIAs. - Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
New features help teams and individual developers alike reach the next level in performance and functionality. This technology shipped on October 15, 2008. - Flash Lite 2 Update for Flash Professional 8
Macromedia® Flash Professional 8 support for Adobe Flash Lite 2 content and applications. This technology shipped on March 1, 2006. - Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 Authoring
This Adobe Flash Professional 8 update provides publishing and emulator support for Flash Lite 2.1 authoring. This technology shipped on December 4, 2006. - Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 for BREW
Extends Adobe Flash to the growing BREW platform and allows developers to create content and applications. This technology shipped on October 25, 2006. - Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0
Allows mobile developers to create Flash Lite applications and content for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. This technology shipped on December 4, 2006. - Adobe Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition
A standalone player for testing your Flash Lite 3 applications. This technology was removed on December 11, 2008. - Adobe Flash Media Encoder
Capture audio and video while streaming it live to Macromedia Flash Media Server or the Flash Video Streaming Service. This technology shipped on February 26, 2007. - Adobe Flash Player 9 Update
Try the new H.264 video and HE-AAC audio support and other enhancements on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. This technology shipped on January 28, 2008. - Adobe Flash Player 10
An opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features. This technology shipped for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows on October 15, 2008. - FLVCheck Tool
Ensures that FLV files created by non-Adobe technology conform to the Adobe FLV file specification. This technology shipped as part of Adobe Flash Media Development Server installer on January 25, 2008.
