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.
Stay up to speed with the latest updates to the Flash Platform including sneak previews, prerelease products, experimental technologies, developer utilities, and open source projects available on Adobe Labs. Learn more about the Flash Platform.
Related Technologies
- Adobe AIR 3.2
Adds new features for out-of-browser applications across platforms. - Adobe AIR Launchpad
A tool that helps Flex developers build desktop applications deployed on Adobe AIR. - Adobe AIR & Flash Player Incubator
A program for us to share with developers features that are under development or under consideration for inclusion in future versions of the Flash Platform runtimes. - Alchemy
A research project that allows users to compile C and C++ code into ActionScript libraries (AVM2). - Blueprint
A plug-in that allows users to query for Adobe Flex® code examples from within Adobe Flex Builder® 3 and Adobe Flash Builder® 4. - Cirrus
A hosted rendezvous service for establishing communications between Flash Player clients and Adobe AIR endpoints using RTMFP. - Adobe Flash Builder Plug-in for SAP NetWeaver Gateway Services
A plug-in for Flash Builder 4.5 that allows users to build web and mobile applications that access SAP data published through REST-based SAP NetWeaver Gateway Services (NGS). - Flash Media Gateway
A real-time server platform that enables connections with traditional communication devices via SIP. - Adobe Flash Player 11.2
Adds new features for browser-based viewing of expressive content across platforms. - Adobe LiveCycle® Mosaic ES2 Plug-in for Adobe Flash Builder 4
Quickly and easily build and debug Mosaic tiles for LiveCycle Mosaic 9.5. - Adobe Pixel Bender® 3D
A version of the Pixel Bender kernel language that allows you to produce 3D vertex and fragment shaders. - Adobe Pixel Bender Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop® CS5
Process Pixel Bender filters on images opened in Photoshop CS5. - Project Adthenticate
A hosted service for ad optimization and validation against a repository of specifications. - Proscenium
An ActionScript 3 code library built on top of the Stage3D APIs for rapid development of interactive 3D content. - Project ROME
Inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation into everyday projects. - Adobe Photoshop CS5 FXG Extension
Features that empower Flash Catalyst and Photoshop collaboration. - Rich Media Advertising
A sneak preview of two new full screen ad formats for smart phones that will support Adobe Flash Player 10 software and/or HTML5. - Squiggly
The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Adobe Flex 3 or Flex 4 based text control. - Text Layout Framework
An extensible library that delivers sophisticated and innovative typography in Adobe Flash Player 10. - Visual Size Report
An extension for Flash Professional that allows for easier size optimization of SWF files. - WorkflowLab
A new AIR app that provides an easy way to learn about and share workflow best practices.
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. - Going Multi-Screen with the Flash Platform (June 22-24)
Attend free webinars on optimizing web content with Flash Player 10.1, cross-platform apps with AIR 2, RIAs with Flash Builder 4, and multiscreen web content with Flash Pro CS5.
Formerly on Labs
- ActionScript Code Coverage Plug-in for Adobe Flash Builder
Understand what code is executed while an application is running. This technology shipped on May 3, 2011. - Adobe AIR
Start building cross-operating system desktop applications using Adobe Flex 3 and HTML. This technology shipped on February 25, 2008. - Adobe AIR 2
AIR 2 gives developers new capabilities, and even tighter integration with the desktop. This technology shipped on June 10, 2010. - Adobe AIR 2.7
The next release of AIR that introduces enhanced runtime features for desktop apps. This technology shipped on June 14, 2011. - Adobe AIR 3
Introduces enhanced features for out-of-browser applications across devices and platforms. This technology shipped on October 4, 2011. - 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. - Durango
Durango, a framework for building customizable AIR applications, was discontinued on December 14, 2008. Please explore other technologies on Adobe Labs related to Adobe AIR. - Adobe Flash Builder 4
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. This technology shipped on March 22, 2010. - Adobe Flash Builder 4.5
Next generation Flash Builder adds mobile application development support, plus coding improvements to accelerate development of Flex and ActionScript projects. Includes Flex 4.5 SDK. This technology shipped on May 3, 2011. - Adobe Flash Catalyst™
Previously codenamed "Thermo," Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding. This technology shipped on April 30, 2010. - Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5
Next generation Flash Catalyst adds many new features and enhancements, and offers new integration with the Flash Builder 4.5 preview release. This technology shipped on May 3, 2011. - 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. - Adobe 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 Lite for BREW Publisher for Flash CS3 Pro
An update of the Flash Lite for BREW Publisher for Flash CS3. This technology was removed on December 17, 2010. - 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. - Adobe Flash Player 10.1
The first release that enables Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices. This technology shipped for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows on August 16, 2010. - Adobe Flash Player 10.2
Adds a new video hardware acceleration model, called Stage Video, several other features. This technology shipped on February 8, 2011. - Adobe Flash Player 10.3
Includes new features and enhanced privacy protection for desktops. This technology shipped on May 12, 2011. - Adobe Flash Player 11
Introduces new features, including Stage 3D and 64-bit runtime, for browser-based viewing of expressive content. This technology shipped on October 4, 2011. - Adobe Flash Player "Gala"
Introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3. This technology shipped for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows on August 16, 2010. - Adobe Flash Player "Square"
A preview with native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This technology was discontinued as a result of 64-bit support with Flash Player 11 on July 13, 2011. - Adobe Flash Professional Extension for Adobe AIR 2.5
Publish content and applications to the latest AIR 2.5 release. This technology ships with Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5. - Flash-Ajax Video Component
Add this small Flash component to your projects and provide video playback within an Ajax application. This technology moved to Adobe Open Source on February 5, 2010. - Adobe Flex® 4 SDK
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.) This technology shipped on March 22, 2010. - Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK
Next generation Flex SDK adds support for mobile application development, expands and refines Spark components, and includes some great improvements for large application development. This technology shipped on May 3, 2011. - 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. - Melrose
A service that enables the distribution and monetization of Adobe AIR applications through application stores. This technology was renamed as Adobe InMarket and moved to Adobe.com on October 25, 2010. - Mobile Application Development with Flex and Flash Builder
Learn about how to build mobile applications using the preview releases of Flex and Flash Builder. This technology shipped with Flex 4.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 and was removed from Labs on May 3, 2011. - Packager for iPhone
An SDK for creating ActionScript 3 projects that run as native applications for the iPhone 3.0 OS. This technology shipped with the Adobe Developer Tool and was removed from Labs on May 3, 2011. - Strobe Media Playback
An Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) video player that you can quickly integrate into your web site. This technology was released as part of OSMF 1.0 on July 28, 2010. - Adobe Wave
An Adobe AIR application that lets you get notifications from the websites you care about. We have decided not to continue development of Adobe Wave. As it is an online service, it will cease to function once the Adobe Wave servers are shut down, which will happen on April 15th, 2011.
