Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 available

Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 available

Adobe has released at its developer conference, MAX, the final versions of Flash Player 11 (11.0.1.152) for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Android and Blackberry Tablet OS, and the runtime AIR in version 3 for Windows and Mac OS X.

Flash Player 11 is available for all desktop operating systems, now 32 - and 64-Bittig, the Android version can be downloaded from the Android Market. He supported the Stage 3D API for hardware accelerated 2D and 3D animations, which is based on DirectX 9 under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux is on the lowest common denominator of OpenGL 1.3. On mobile devices - Adobe explicitly called Android, and Blackberry iOS Tablet OS - Stage3D is to set up OpenGL ES 2.0, but only in one of the next player versions. 3D applications in Flash to allow himself to Adobe's ActionScript 3 library "proscenium" and numerous other 3D frameworks such as 3D Alternativa, Away 3D, 3D Flare, Minko and Yogurt generate 3D.

Flash Player 11 also supports the G.711 codec, telephony, brings an H.264 encoder, and can handle JPEG XR, which compensates for some shortcomings of JPEG (on request, efficient and lossless encoding, alpha channel transparency). The streaming capabilities of the player, Adobe has expanded among other things, (Protected) Dynamic HTTP streaming.

Developers should be happy about the native JSON interface can, thanks to the API cubicCurveTo cubic Bezier curves without further aids draw handle up to 16 Mpixel large BitmapData objects asynchronously and decode bitmaps.

AIR 3 which supports most new features of Flash Player 11 and more: some background audio playback under IOS, 16 and 32 bit color depth with Android, encrypted local storage on mobile devices, game controllers and an API for televisions.