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


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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

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Exchanges

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


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

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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 technical evangelist, who has worked on Flex since its early days, focuses on RIAs and enterprise integration. Christophe is a regular speaker at conferences worldwide.

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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

Mark Doherty

Mark Doherty

Adobe Platform Evangelist Mark Doherty demos websites that have been optimized for Flash Player 10.1, and explains the multitouch capabilities enabled by Flash Player 10.1 using Flash CS5.

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Featured events

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BFusion/BFlex 2010


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DROID does Flash


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360|Flex 2010


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Adobe MAX 2010


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Developer spotlight

Jobe Makar

Jobe Makar

Meet Jobe Makar, picked for his use of Adobe technologies such as Flash, ActionScript, and Photoshop.

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Application spotlight

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Adobe Block Builder

Make your own playful creations using 3D blocks and Adobe mnemonics with the Adobe Block Builder application.

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