Introduction to Adobe Flash Player and take a Flex Test Drive, updated

The following are three main Rich Internet Applications technologies from Adobe:

1. Adobe Flex, 
2. Flash Player and 
3. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

To begin learning about Flash Player start reading with What is micromedia flash player (wiki.answers.com)

Flash Platform is used to build

• Enterprise applicaitons
• SasS (Software as a Service)
• Consumer applications, 
• Rich media applications, 
• Video applications (e.g. YouTube), 
• Social applications
• Games

Note: Adobe has abandoned developing Flash for mobile device. 

To know about the current version of Flash Player visit the URL: https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Flex Test Drive: Build an application in an hour

Remark: You should be able to upgrade the Flex SDK without having to get your clients upgrade their Flash Player unless during major releases, to bring some predictability and allows developers to plan their upgrade cycles.

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Photon - A Flash Player and Browser for Android - viewing Flash enabled web sites (those not yet migrated to HTML5) in Android.

Adobe Flash Player for Android is not available anymore at the Play Store.

• Adobe Releases Android Flash Player 10.3 Security Fix (pocketnow.com)
• Adobe Updates Flash and Air For Android (pocketnow.com)

Flash Player on Linux

• Adobe Release x64 Flash Player 11 Public Beta (edugeek.net)