Thursday, January 13, 2011

Adobe Flash Player 10.2

Adobe has just released a near final version of Flash Player v10.2

The key features of this version of the player as given in the Adobe site are...

Stage Video hardware acceleration — A new method for video playback in Flash Player will allow developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration of the video rendering pipeline, enabling best-in-class playback performance. Stage Video can dramatically decrease processor usage and enables higher frame rates, reduced memory usage, and greater pixel fidelity and quality.

Internet Explorer 9 hardware accelerated rendering support — Flash Player takes advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in Internet Explorer 9, utilizing hardware rendering surfaces to improve graphics performance and enable seamless composition.

Native custom mouse cursors — Developers can define custom native mouse cursors, enabling user experience enhancements and improving performance.

Support for full screen mode with multiple monitors — Full screen content will remain in full-screen on secondary monitors, allowing users to watch full-screen content while working on another display.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

MOLEHILL 3d API




Thibault Imbert, product manager for Adobe Flash Player, previews 3D APIs for Adobe Flash Player and AIR (codenamed "Molehill"). Adobe is working on a new set of 3D GPU accelerated APIs that delivers advanced 3D rendering in Flash Player and AIR.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 Bangalore

@ Bangalore Adobe Flash Platform summit was held on August 25th & 26th.

I was so thrilled to attend the sessions, very curious to know new upcoming features & products.

Due to my office work I couldn't make it for both the days. I managed to attend the first day of the summit and it was fine. I heard from my friends that the 2nd day sessions where more interesting and engaging. Especially the session about BCI (Brain Computer Inteface) with AS.

Other key things i came to know from the event was

1. Stratus - For Peer-Peer communication with RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol)
2. Hero - The code name for the next version of Flex
3. Melrose - (codename) enables developers and publishers to distribute and make money with Adobe® AIR® applications through application stores. Melrose provides a repository that distributes applications to multiple application stores so that publishers can reach millions of users.

Here are the presentation slides from the speakers.

MultiScreen experiences with Adobe Flash Platform by Hemant Sharma:

Visual Experience with Flex 4 by Saurabh Narula:

Mechanical Designer by Deepak Pakhare:

Flex 3 to Flex 4 by Yash Mody:

UI Engineering Rebooted by Uday Shankar:

Adobe Flex + Paypal X = Monetization of RIA by Ganesh Hegde:

Less Verbose Actionscript 3.0 – Write less and do more by Arul Kumaran