Adobe Systems has unveiled further advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform, which is tightly integrated with the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family.

 

November 17, 2008: Adobe Systems has unveiled further advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform, which is tightly integrated with the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family.
The Flash Platform represents a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers to develop Web applications, content and video that run consistently across operating systems and devices. The latest innovations include technology previews of Adobe Flash Catalyst and the next version of Adobe Flex Builder, code named Gumbo. Flash Catalyst is a professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application interfaces and interactive content without coding. It enables artwork created in Adobe Creative Suite 4 to be imported with full fidelity and quickly converted into dynamic components such as buttons, scrollbars, input fields and more.
Finished projects can be published directly to Flash Player or AIR. When combined with the next version of Flex Builder, Adobe Flash Catalyst enables design and development to be done in parallel. A public beta version of Flash Catalyst is expected to be available on Adobe Labs in early 2009. Full details can be found at www.adobe.com/go/flashcatalyst. The Flex Builder ø¢â‚¬Å“Gumboø¢â‚¬ preview release expands the use of Flex to a wider audience of developers, offering new data-centric development capabilities to create rich Internet applications plus an enhanced workflow with Flash Catalyst. A new preview release of the open source Flex framework is also available on www.opensource.adobe.com.
Adobe has also released Adobe AIR 1.5, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform that includes the open source WebKit HTML engine and ø¢â‚¬Å“SquirrelFish,ø¢â‚¬ the new WebKit JavaScript interpreter. Adobe AIR 1.5 also includes a new, encrypted database plus increased functionality through support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, and extensible rich text layout. Adobe AIR 1.5 is available immediately as a free download for Windows and Mac, and AIR 1.5 for Linux is expected to be available before the end of the year. More information on Adobe AIR is available at www.adobe.com/products/air/.
Furthering Adobe’s commitment to the Linux community and as part of ensuring the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, a pre-release 64-bit Linux version of Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available on Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/linux64player. This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux systems and removes the need for 32-bit emulation. Additionally, a preview of Adobe Flash Player 10 for smartphones is among the latest advancements related to the Open Screen Project. More information about the Open Screen Project is available at www.openscreenproject.org.