Adobe officially announced at Mobile World Congress the Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR for Android. Kevin Hoyt recorded a video overview of some demos on the Motorola Droid. The demo shows some of the capabilities of Flash on mobile devices.  It looks  pretty good so far the way The Flash Technology is moving into other devices so far. Check the video

Flash game development has been around almost as long as Flash itself I remember the first thing I did with Flash was a very short animation and the second a little spaceship game I must have that .swf laying around in a backup somewhere, I’m really glad to see Adobe’s efforts in pushing the various “sections” of Flash development inside of the devnet.

The Flash Platform Technology Center aims to reach for those developers interested in Game Development using Adobe technologies( Aka: Flash, Flex, AIR  and AS3 ) it includes several beginner-advanced tutorials and links to various resources as documentation, cookbooks an other related development centers, the only thing I wonder is why this Technology Center wasn’t opened earlier being the Flash game development community as  big as it is( Hope some of the great Open Source Game related APIs get some spotlight in this place ), anyways it’s here now so get ready to start developing your first game if you haven’t already,  here are some excerpts and links from the Adobe Flash Platform Game Technology Center:

The Adobe Flash Platform is the leading platform in the world for developing games on the web. The Flash Platform Game Technology Center is a great place to start learning how to develop your very own Flash games.

• Get started
• Samples
• Tutorials and videos
• Gaming community
  

FEATURED RESOURCES
Articles and tutorials

• Introducing the Adobe Flash Platform Game Technology Center
• An introduction to developing games on the Adobe Flash Platform
• Developing games for Nokia S60 Touch devices

Community

• Adobe AIR Marketplace
• Adobe Arcade blog
• Gaming on Adobe Groups

Adobe has updated the Flash Player version to 10.0.42.34 and AIR to 1.5.3 these runtimes are ready to go and include several bug  fixes including FP-503 ( Mousewheel on Mac OS X  wich has been needed a long time ago and forced developers to hack their way around this bug to use the mousewheel on Mac OS X).

Adobe Flash Player 10.0.42.34:

Adobe Flash Player Devnet  Overview on this security update.

Adobe AIR 1.5.3:

Highlights of some of the important changes in this release taken from the post of Adobe Air Team Blog:

• If you have deployed an existing Adobe AIR application using AIR 1.5.2 or earlier and you want to update your application to use the 1.5.3 namespace, you will need to specify the old publisher ID of your application in your descriptor. Instructions on how to find your publisher ID and specify it in your descriptor are described in the release notes.
• The process for changing certificates in an update to a deployed application has changed. Beginning with AIR 1.5.3, certificate renewals will no longer be handled automatically and you will need to use the migrate feature of ADT. Please learn more about this topic by reading the release notes.

Critical issues fixed in this release:

• When an intermediate certificate expires, it is no longer possible to sign an application with a renewed certificate (fixed by removing the publisher ID).
• The AIR application installer crashes on Linux systems using AMD Phenom processors.

Important links:

• Read the Adobe AIR 1.5.3 developer release notes
• Download the Adobe AIR 1.5.3 runtime
• Download the Adobe AIR 1.5.3 SDK

Upgrade here:

Download Adobe Flash Player 10.0.42.34

Download AdobeAIR 1.5.3

Adobe has released the AIR 1.5.1 update with new features and with number of bug fixes. The Adobe AIR 1.5.1 is available on the Adobe AIR download center.

Read Adobe AIR Team blog for more information.

Adobe also announced today the availability of Adobe AIR 1.5, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, which enables Web developers to deliver rich Internet applications outside the browser. Offering new features and performance improvements to create more expressive AIR applications, Adobe AIR 1.5 incorporates the open source WebKit HTML engine and now accelerates application performance with “SquirrelFish,” the new WebKit JavaScript interpreter. Adobe AIR 1.5 also includes a new, encrypted database that meets enterprise security compliance requirements while storing data securely on customers’ computers. Additionally, AIR 1.5 includes functionality introduced in Adobe Flash Player 10, such as support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, and extensible rich text layout.

Adobe AIR 1.5 developer release notes
Adobe AIR 1.5 user release notes

Download Adobe AIR version 1.5

UPDATE:

A more detailed  explanation by Robert Christensen in the Adobe AIR Team Blog on  the post Introducing Adobe AIR 1.5

Adobe announced yesterday at Adobe MAX the advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform, a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers to develop Web apps, content and video that runs across various OS  and devices.

Some of the highlights of this announce are the preview of Flash Catalyst( formely code named Thermo in Adobe Labs), a professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application interfaces and interactive content without coding. Flash Catalyst enables artwork created in Adobe Creative Suite 4 to be imported with full fidelity and quickly converted into dynamic components such as buttons, scrollbars, input fields and more. Finished projects can be published directly to Flash Player or AIR. When combined with the next version of Flex Builder, Adobe Flash Catalyst enables design and development to be done in parallel. This workflow supports iterative development and delivers higher quality results with faster time to market. A preview release of Adobe Flash Catalyst will be available for MAX 2008 attendees. A public beta version is expected to be available on Adobe Labs in early 2009. For more information, please visit www.adobe.com/go/flashcatalyst.

The Flex Builder “Gumbo” preview release, also available yesterday for MAX 2008 attendees, expands the use of Flex to a wider audience of developers, offering new data-centric development capabilities to create rich Internet applications. Gumbo also enhances project productivity through the improved design and development workflow with Adobe Flash Catalyst and improvements to core development capabilities such as the debugger, profiler and code editor. For more information, please visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/. A new preview release of the open source Flex framework is also available on www.opensource.adobe.com.

Adobe AIR 1.5 is available immediately as a free download for Windows and Mac, and AIR 1.5 for Linux is expected to be available before the end of the year. For more information on Adobe AIR, please visit www.adobe.com/products/air/.

Furthering Adobe’s commitment to the Linux community and as part of ensuring the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, a pre-release 64-bit Linux version of Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available on Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/linux64player.This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux systems and removes the need for 32-bit emulation.

UPDATE:

Here’s a link to Adobes Page for The Flash Platform

http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/

And an image shameless ripped form Keith Peters post on the subject

Adobe has released the Adobe AIR 1.1 Update, so what does this update have for us ?

The Adobe AIR 1.1 includes the following new capabilities:

• Installation and other runtime dialog boxes have been translated into:
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian
• Spanish
• Support for building internationalized applications, including keyboard input for double-byte languages
• Support for localizing the name and description attributes in the application descriptor file
• Support for localizing error messages, such as SQLError.detailID and SQLError.detailArguments, in the SQLite database
• Addition of Capabilities.languages property to obtain an array of preferred UI languages as set by the operating system
• HTML button labels and default menus, such as context menus and the Mac menu bar, have been localized to all supported languages
• Support for certificate migration from a self-signed application to one that chains to a certificate of authority (CA)
• Support for Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and support for 64-bit editions of Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise.
• Addition of File.spaceAvailable : API to obtain the amount of disk space available on a disk
• Addition of NativeWindow.supportsTransparency property to determine whether a window can be drawn as transparent by the current operating system
• Bug fixes and memory improvements.

Here’s a list of some of the things you can get to start playing with AIR 1.1:
Adobe AIR 1.1 first of all you’ll need the runtime download it here.
If you’re working with Flash CS3 Professional here are the instructions and download links to get your copy of Flash up to date with the new AIR.

if you’re working with Flex 3 go here and wait for the Adobe Flex SDK 3.0.2 stable build, according to Matt Chotin this update will be available this afternoon they’re just giving it the final touches.

And the AIR SDK can be found here.

And don’t forget to visit the Adobe AIR Developer Center and check the new AIR Cookbook section

Until next time Happy Coding !!!

Adobe has released the version 1.0 of Adobe Media Player the video playing software that lets you watch your videos online or offline. With it you can queue up and download Internet TV content, and having your personal video library.
This version has some improvements over the beta version that was on Adobe Labs.

Some of the Networks that are currently parters of adobe are:
Blip.tv, MTV, CBS, Nickelodeon for the complete list click here

Along with this release Adobe has Adobe TV site up. with channels for Photographers, Designers, Video Professionals and Developers.You can find tutorials and news there for online watching or subscribe in Adobe Media Player.

Visit Adobe TV here and download Adobe Media Player here.
You need the latest Adobe AIR installed.

You can also post and keep track of AIR, Blaze DS and Flex 3 SDK Issues.

So go and check your Bugs

That’s it the new version of Adobe Flex is here and with it the new AIR 1 runtime, for details visit Mike Potter’s post. Congrats to all the people involved in this release Adobe is really pushing its open source side by making the Flex compilers source available.
Be sure to check Flex SDK page on Adobe Open Source and the product pages of Flex 3 and AIR 1.