The Adobe®Flash® Platform is an integrated set of application programming 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 compelling applications, content, and video to the widest possible audience across screens and devices.
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Why use the Flash Platform?
A complete system
Use professional tools, an open source framework, ubiquitous clients, and scalable servers to take applications and content from prototype to production and video from planning to playback.
Expressiveness, consistency, and reach
Deliver expressive content and applications that run consistently across the widest reach of browsers, operating systems, and devices.
Agile design and development
Achieve faster time to market with integrated tools and flexible workflows that support independent but synchronized front-end design and back-end development with rapid cycling of multiple iterations.
Robust, open ecosystem
Enjoy compatibility with leading tools and browsers, support for open standards, integration with leading infrastructure partners, developer training programs, co-marketing and distribution opportunities, and a developer community over three million strong.
Customer success stories
The Green Hornet
Using Adobe CS5 and the Flash Platform, Trigger delivers an action-packed multiscreen gaming experience for Sony Pictures' The Green Hornet.
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Babbel
Babbel uses Flash Builder 4 and Flash Player 10.1, to deliver the first online learning service with client-side speech recognition.
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Demandbase
Demandbase used the Flash Platform to build a suite of on-demand solutions for sales and marketing personnel.
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Sling Media
Using the Flash Platform, Sling Media dramatically reduced development time for delivering content across multiple screens and devices.
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Kongregate
Kongregate and its developer community leverage Flash Player 10.1 to bring online games to Android™ devices.
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Photobucket
Using the Flash Platform, Photobucket built a mobile version of its site to allow users to upload and browse photos and video directly from smartphones.
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SonicSwap
SonicSwap leverages the Flash Platform to automate iTunes playlist generation for end users right on their desktops and smartphones.
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- Adobe Debuts Flash Media Server 4
- Verizon's DROID X press release
- Adobe Scene7 Mobile Commerce Survey Reveals Significant Interest in Developing Mobile Websites
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RESOURCES
- Learn about Flex and Flash Builder
- See what devices support Flash
- Visit the Flash Platform Developer Center
- Visit the Mobile and Devices
Developer Center - Learn how to optimize your website for mobile devices
- See over 200 samples with
Tour de Flex - Explore Flash enabled sites on your mobile devices
- Learn about the Open Screen Project
