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Flash Platform Services

Learn about a new family of services that lets you add new capabilities to your apps and profit from your projects.
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Promotion

Share your apps on social media platforms, track their success, and earn revenue through ad-hosting.

Collaboration

Use Flex-based client components and a hosted service to add real-time social capabilities into your RIAs.

Social

Enable applications to integrate with leading social networks like Facebook and MySpace.

Shibuya (beta)

Start selling your AIR applications with new try & buy functionality. Shibuya is now in limited beta.



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Get started with Adobe products and technologies

Start creating better user experiences. Read the overviews and build your skills with these tutorials, demos, and sample apps.


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Newsletters

Preparing for HTML5

The Edge

Published every eight weeks, the Edge contains original content geared toward informing, enlightening, and inspiring web designers and developers.

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News Flash

Stay current with the latest news for Adobe Flash Platform from a developer's perspective.



Code & Sample Applications

Featured sample applications

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Flash ActionScript 3 samples

Learn about Flash by doing: These updated samples demonstrate features common in Flash development.

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Adobe AIR sample applications

Be inspired by what your peers are building on AIR—and learn from them.


Code samples

Visit the following community-powered resources to share solutions, get answers to common coding problems, or rate and comment on posts:


Exchanges

Download and share extensions, scripts, templates, and other items that extend the functionality of Adobe applications.


SDK & Downloads
Certification & Training

Certification

Certified Flex 3 Developer Exam: Now available

Set yourself apart from other IT professionals, and demonstrate your skills and knowledge with Flex by taking the new Flex certification exam.


Developer Community & Support

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Adobe Groups

Create your profile on Adobe Groups today! Join Adobe user groups and connect with other members of the community.

Community support

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Find, share, and comment on code with the developer community.

InsideRIA

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Stay on top of RIA developments and trends on this O'Reilly Media site.

Blogs

ADC blog

Featured blog

This one-stop information and conversation destination is for virtually anyone interested in what's going on at Adobe: blogs, articles, videos, editorials, business insights, and more.

Featured Adobe evangelist

This Adobe JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301 uses Flex to build beautiful front ends for Java-based back ends—and blogs about RIAs, Flex, AIR, Java, open source, Linux, enterprise software, and cloud computing.

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Write & Give Program

ADC Write & Give Program

We acknowledge the writing efforts of our community authors by donating money to charities for each article they publish in the ADC.

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Developer videos

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Flash Catalyst 1:1

In this video training series, Doug Winnie shows you how to use Flash Catalyst CS5 to wireframe, design, publish, and hand-off to development an interactive application design for the browser or desktop.

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Featured events

FITC San Fran 2010

FITC San Francisco 2010


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Adobe MAX 2010


Build an app in a week

Build an app in a week


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Developer Spotlight

David Lenaerts

David Lenaerts

Meet David Lenaerts, picked for his use of Adobe technologies such as Flash, Flex, AIR, Pixel Bender and, on occasion, Alchemy.

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Join the ADC

Adobe Developer Connection

Some of the benefits of joining:

  • ADC Developer Desktop: Track bugs and aggregate components on your desktop
  • Discounts from O'Reilly Media: Buy two books, get one free