BlackBerry 10 SDK for Adobe AIR

BlackBerry SDK for Adobe AIR is now available at https://developer.blackberry.com/air/. Using this applications can be built for BlackBerry 10 devices or the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Adobe Flash Builder integrates the BlackBerry 10 SDK for Adobe AIR, ActionScript and the Adobe Flex framework. It allows development, testing, debug and deployment of Adobe AIR applications for BlackBerry 10 devices.

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What's New in Flex 4.6 SDK and Flash Builder 4.6

Below is the Blog link from Adobe Developer Connection about  - What's new in Flex 4.6 SDK & Flash Builder 4.6:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/whats-new-flex-flash-builder-46.html

Key Improvements include:

• New UI Components
• Support for latest Google tablet platform and iOS 5
• Enhanced Tooling (including monitoring and unit testing of mobile applicaitons)
• Performance Improvement

This is the final official Adobe release of Flex. Future versions of Flex SDK will be managed as an independent project by Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

Adobe Flex Builder 4.5 - A game changer release

Today a developer faces a challenge of making their applications run on multiple platforms. With Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 the same code works smoothly and uniformly in every device. Adobe Flex is the single framework to build applications compatible across almost all major browsers, devices and operating systems.

It supports the following platforms:

• For Desktop Applications multiple Operation Systems
• Windows,
• Mac
• Linux
• For Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) multiple Browsers
• Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Safari
• For Mobilie & Table Applications multiple devices platform
• Android
• BlackBerry (Research in Motion)
• Apple iOS
• Windows Phone 7

Flash Builder 4.5 with Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 release is a game changer release as It now provides support for building Flex and ActionScript applications using one single tool and one development framework for Google Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and Apple iOS with one primary code base. It enables: 

• Developing across different form factors.
• Developing across multiple operating systems & platforms. (Android, Blackberry Tablet & iOS)
• Developing for different orientations of devices.
• Testing & Debugging your application on device.

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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Flex Development Without IDE(radhedubey.wordpress.com) - Getting to know the basics with Flex Development without an IDE 

Introducing the Flash Platform Evangelist Kit (blogs.adobe.com) - Find answers to key points raised by executives, technology decision makers, and customers. 

Important BlackBerry Tablet OS Update: Includes Fix for Adobe Flash Player (blogs.blackberry.com) - Does anybody now care about BlacBerry Tablet OS and its Flash Player ? If yes then read this blog. 

 
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)