Adobe® Flash®-based technologies are surrounded by an established ecosystem of support programs, business partners, and enthusiastic user communities.
Together, they provide everything you need to create and deliver the most compelling applications, content, and video to the widest possible audience.
Stay up to speed with the latest updates to the Flash Platform including sneak previews, prerelease products, experimental technologies, developer utilities, and open source projects available on Adobe Labs. Learn more about the Flash Platform.
Related Technologies
- Adobe AIR 4
New features for out-of-browser applications across platforms. - Blueprint
A plug-in that allows users to query for Adobe Flex® code examples from within Adobe Flex Builder® 3 and Adobe Flash Builder® 4. - Cirrus
A hosted rendezvous service for establishing communications between Flash Player clients and Adobe AIR endpoints using RTMFP. - Flash Player 12
Cross-platform, browser based access to expressive applications and content. This update includes security enhancements and bug fixes to provide a more robust and secure Flash Player. - Rich Media Advertising
A sneak preview of two new full screen ad formats for smart phones that will support Adobe Flash Player 10 software and/or HTML5. - SWF Investigator
A GUI-based set of tools to analyze SWF files to improve the quality and security of their applications. - Visual Size Report
An extension for Flash Professional that allows for easier size optimization of SWF files.
Other Resources
- Flex Apache
Flex applications can be deployed to Flash Player in the browser, Adobe AIR on desktop and mobile or to native Android, IOS, QNX, Windows or Mac applications. - Adobe Developer Center
Tutorials, samples, articles, and other resources to help you master Flash. - Flash Professional Forums
Ask and answer questions in the Adobe Flash Professional community forum. - Flash Builder Forums
Ask and answer questions in the Adobe Flash Builder community forum. - Flex Forums
Ask and answer questions in the Adobe Flex Player community forum. - AIR Community Forums
Ask and answer questions in the Adobe AIR community forum. - Flash Player Community Forums
Ask and answer questions in the Adobe Flash Player community forum. - Adobe Gaming Website
Adobe Game Developer Tools provide the key building blocks you need to build, optimize, and deliver amazing web, mobile and desktop games. - Adobe AIR Runtime Distribution
Learn more about limited distribution of the Adobe AIR runtime. - Adobe Flash Player Distribution
Learn more about Adobe Flash Player distribution and use in multi-user installations. - Adobe Public Bug Database
Submit a bug or follow-up on a previous bug submission.
Formerly on Labs
- A list of technologies formerly on Adobe Labs may be found on the Technology Archive. Previous versions of the AIR SDK may be found at Adobe AIR Help / Archived Adobe AIR SDK versions . Previous versions of Flash Player may be found at Flash Player Help / Archived Flash Player versions.
