Adobe Flash Runtimes
Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player are ubiquitous runtimes of Adobe Flash that enable developers to consistently deliver expressive content, applications, and video to the widest possible audience across browsers, desktops, and devices. Adobe Labs provides early access to the latest beta releases and previews of the Flash runtimes. This is your opportunity to influence the future development of AIR and Adobe Flash Player. To stay current on new runtime releases, subscribe to the RSS feed on the Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Team blog and follow @FlashPlayerBeta on Twitter.
- Beta releases -- Designed for developers to experience and test upcoming Flash Platform runtime releases before they are finalized and made widely available through the Adobe Player Download Center.
- Technology previews -- The AIR and Flash Platform Incubator is a new technology preview program for more adventurous developers who are willing to experiment with new runtime features that are in early development stages. The new features may or may not be included in a future beta and final release.
Current Releases
Beta Releases
Adobe Flash Player 31 beta | Oct 22, 2018
New features for browser-based viewing of expressive content- Adobe AIR 31 beta | Oct 15, 2018
New features for out-of-browser applications across platforms
Other Resources
- Adobe Flash Technologies
Previews, prerelease products, experimental technologies, and developer utilities for Flash. - Adobe Developer Center
Tutorials, samples, articles, and other resources - AIR Community Forums
Ask and answer questions in the Adobe AIR community forum. - Flash Player Community Forums
Ask and answer questions in the Adobe Flash Player community forum. - Adobe Gaming Website
Adobe Game Developer Tools provide the key building blocks you need to build, optimize, and deliver amazing web, mobile and desktop games. - Adobe AIR Runtime Distribution
Learn more about limited distribution of the Adobe AIR runtime. - Adobe Flash Player Distribution
Learn more about Adobe Flash Player distribution and use in multi-user installations. - Adobe Public Bug Database
Submit a bug or follow-up on a previous bug submission.
Formerly on Labs
- A list of technologies formerly on Adobe Labs may be found on the Technology Archive. Previous versions of the AIR SDK may be found at Adobe AIR Help / Archived Adobe AIR SDK versions . Previous versions of Flash Player may be found at Flash Player Help / Archived Flash Player versions .
