This 17th of November adobe has made available at Adobe Labs the prerelease of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and the beta of Adobe AIR 2.0 and the attendees of Adobe Latin Flash Tour MX received these news from the hands of Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers who showed us some of the great things to come in the new versions of these runtimes.
Adobe Flash Player version 10.1 is the first runtime release of the new Open Screen Project that will enable to have the same user experience across multiple devices be it browsers, tv, mobile phones and more. Some of the new features of the the Flash Player 10.1 are ubiquitous reach witch means that the full Flash Player will be the same on your smartphone as your browser enabling you to make your content and user experience equal across many devices. The new Global Error Handling will enable You developer to write a single handler to process all runtime errors that weren’t part of a try/catch statement. Improve application reliability and user experience by catching and handling unexpected runtime errors and present custom error messages, what does this mean is that your user will never get that window saying there’s an error and you will not see the output panel throwing you those errors everytime you test your application. Multitouch support a Microphone class that will let you capture sound from the microphone the new Text Layout format and various other features that i’m sure that i’m missing so to The Flash Player 10.1 prerelease page at Adobe Labs and start playing with it.
Some useful links:
Release notes
What’s New in Flash Player 10.1
Download the updated global SWC to create content using the new APIs
Download the memory monitoring component to optimize your content for mobile
Watch Flash Player 10.1 video demonstrations
ActionScript 3.0 Developers Guide
ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform
Adobe AIR 2.0
Some of the features of AIR 2.0 were showed to us by Mike Chambers like the support for the detection of mass storage devices , comunication with the system and that you can now export as a native system application allowing you to use native code integration this lets you do some other things like opening default applications here’s a list of some of it’s new features.
- Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
- Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.
- Support for native code integration.
- The ability to open a file with its default application.
- Multi-touch and gesture support.
- New APIs for access to raw microphone data.
- Webkit update with HTML5/CSS3 support.
- Global error handling.
- Improved cross-platform printing
- Improved security and support for enterprise and government standards.
Some useful links:
Release Notes.
Introducing Adobe AIR 2 beta
What’s Coming in Adobe AIR 2.
What are You waiting for go there and start playing.
Happy Flashing
Adobe has just made available Adobe Labs Ideas a place to share and discuss the new tools and features of the Adobe technologies that are currently on development, and this will let us post our own ideas or requests that we want to see in the final version of the products. Anyone can comment and vote on the submissions, and then they will be reviewed by Adobe Development Team.
Adobe Labs Ideas currently is open for Flash Catalyst. so if You tested the beta of Catalyst, you’ll probably want to go there and submit some ideas before the final version of Flash Catalyst is released.
Just found that Adobe just launched a preview of Adobe Browser Lab a tool for cross-browser testing of web pages and apps as it would appear on different browsers and operating systems,and it let’s you define browser sets for testing and set 1-up view 2-up view or onion-skin view, check Adobe Labs for more info or visit Adobe BrowserLab
BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web. Also, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4 software users have access to additional functionality such as testing local and active content.
Features
Supported Browsers and Operating Systems
- Firefox 2.X and 3.X (Windows XP and Mac OS X)
- Internet Explorer 6.X and 7.X (Windows XP)
- Safari 3.X (Mac OS X)
Viewing and Diagnostics Tools
Screenshots can be viewed in a single view, side by side view, or as an overlay view with variable transparency. Each viewing option features a zoom function.
Browser Sets
Browser Sets allow designers to customize, edit, and save a combination of browsers to test.
Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formely Flex Builder 4 ) and Adobe Flash Catalyst are out on Adobe Labs going to download and try them out before posting a proper review meanwhile more info on Ryan Stewart’s blog and Andrew Shorten’s Tutorial
Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new features, plus improvements to many existing features.There are three main themes to this release: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric application development. For an overview of the features included in this first public beta release, please read Tim Buntel’s What’s New in Flash Builder 4 article and watch the new feature videos. As always, the Flex 4 framework is included within Flash Builder, so please also read Matt Chotin’s What’s New in the Flex 4 SDK article.
Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.
- Transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® into functional user interfaces.
- Create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product
- Publish a finished project as a SWF file ready for distribution
- Work more efficiently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to create rich Internet applications (RIAs). Designers use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience then provide the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.
Go get Flash Builder 4
Go get Flash Catalyst
Flash Builder 4 Standalone Installer
Flash Builder 4 Plugin for Eclipse
Flex Component Kit for Adobe Flash Professional CS4
Flex 4 Test Automation Plug-in
Flash Catalyst Beta
More Adobe Resources:
Learn about Flash Builder 4
Learn about Flex 4 SDK
Working with Flash Builder 4
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