Now that MAX 2011 Conference is started, Adobe just launched the Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. Take a look at the features introduced by each of them.
Flash Player 11 features
- Native 64-bit support (Flash Player desktop)
- Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering
- Adobe Flash Access content protection support for mobile
- Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) support
- G.711 audio compression for telephony
- Garbage collection advice
- Cubic Bézier curves
- Secure random number generator
- Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) and Flash Access enhancements
- TLS secure sockets support (new for Flash Player)
- Socket progress events
- Native text input UI (mobile)
- JPEG-XR support
- Enhanced high-resolution bitmap support
- High-efficiency SWF compression support
- DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren and MovieClip.isPlaying
- Sound.loadCompressedDataFromByteArray and Sound.loadPCMFromByteArray
- Asynchronous bitmap decoding
Test if you have Flash Player 11 installed here: http://blogs.adobe.com/sunil/2011/10/04/test/.
Get Adobe Flash Player 11 from here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
If you look for the debugger version of Flash Player 11 go to this link: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
AIR 3 features
- Stage3D (desktop only)
- Native extensions (all platforms)
- Android Market licensing integration (Android only, obviously)
- Captive runtime bundles (Android and desktop)
- Background audio playback (new feature in iOS; already works on Android)
- CameraRoll support for iPad
- Hardware-accelerated video (mobile)
- Native text fields (mobile)
- Front-facing camera support (iOS and Android)
- Mobile-encrypted local storage (brings feature parity between desktop and mobile)
- Device speaker control (mobile)
- Native JSON support (mobile and desktop)
- Socket improvements (mobile and desktop)
- H.264 video encoding (desktop only)
- JPEG XR support (mobile and desktop)
- Higher resolution bitmaps (mobile and desktop)
- Multichannel audio digital output (AIR for TV only)
- Advanced controller support (AIR for TV only)
- More easily removing all children from a container (all platforms)
- More easily determine if a MovieClip is playing (all platforms)
- Secure random number generation (mobile and desktop)
- Support for cubic bezier curves (all platforms)
Get Adobe AIR 3 from here: http://get.adobe.com/air/
The features were only listed. Read more bellow to find put more about each feature…
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2011/10/adobe-flash-player-11-air-11-available-later-today.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/whats-new-flash-player11.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air3_whatsnew.html
