Let’s talk about a platform that has been used for professionals and amateurs alike to create animations, games, desktop apps and interactions in websites. The program is called, Adobe Flash, a dominant platform through which web content, such as Rich Internet Applications (RIA), was created and displayed for decades.

Adobe Flash got into business in 1996 with a software called Future Splash Animator and throughout the 90s, 2000 and 2010s Adobe Flash was the preferred-choice software used by designers, animators and programmers to deal with motion, graphics and hand-draw style animations.

What was the intentional purpose for Adobe Flash?

The original intention for this animation software was to create 2D web-based animations. Nowadays, because its popularity has increased is now a web authoring tool, because it is now used to build entire websites. Also, its scripting language “ActionScript” is now used to create applications or assets in web designs.

What is Adobe Flash Capable of doing now?

Besides general designs that can be used for videos and games, flash is known for being a vector-based application- This means that it works with vector-based images that when added to a flash movie it gives the final product the capacity of being scaled at any size without losing detail. Also, ActionScript and Flash player Adobe Air which is a common platform for mobile games.

Choosing Adobe Flash to Create a Game, Graphical Assets and Animations.

If you are thinking of using this program, you should think of your needs first. The reason why this is so important is because Adobe Flash offers the user tools to create a fully functional game, both coded and animated, graphical Assets and animation. So, it’s really up to you to define a purpose for the software.

If you want to animate graphical assets or work with graphical assets from scratch, the program lets you do it without ever using or interacting with ActionScript. Afterwards, once the path is chosen, think of the right software to use. The tools that can be used with Flash for animation, for instance, is Adobe Animation which was formerly known as Flash Professional. However, if you want to create games or desktop applications you can use FlashDevelop or ApacheDex instead.

Adobe Flash is nearing it's end, but this visual essay revives it's story by illustrating the influence this web player/ programming language had on the history of video games. Enjoy. https://t.co/ksHmR8UEWh

— The Leonardo (@the_leonardo) July 27, 2020

Get Familiar with The Program

This is a vital step to go through if you are serious about using Adobe Flash. To help you being more informed about this program, the company’s own website provides a number of tutorials, documentation and resource, such as Flashkit, that would guide you step by step on the different things the program lets you do.

Also, you need to go through a documentation process to understand Basic Flash Concepts. These go from what are vector graphics, asset graphics, ActionScript language for coding, and animation terminology. If you rather skipping this phase that might seem tedious, then you won’t be able to fully understand the features, possibilities and the tools that the program offers. In other words, you will have a limited understanding about what you can get out of this program.

As my final words, once you have grappled with the basic understandings of the program, you can only go deeper in knowledge. Plus, if you dedicate hours to use the program and create what you’ve set yourself to do, then you will master the software to create really amazing animation, videos, apps and interactions for websites. Welcome to this side of the digital world.

Yes, the platform once used to display animations and videos in websites will no longer be a part of the online platform in 2020.  And by platform, I mean that Adobe will end its support to the loved and popular tool adobe flash player in 6 months. It is hard to believe that a milestone platform that changed the way websites such as ficken.blog in Germany, interacted with viewers and that was also responsible for complements that allowed both videos and sounds to be displayed in major websites such as Youtube will no longer be supported.

But why?

The reason why adobe flash player will soon stop being in the vast majority of online websites comes back to 2007 when the first iPod ever created did not support Adobe Flash. This situation translates mainly into a rupture of technological development form the mobile platforms and second that up until now any IOS device does not use Adobe Flash. What happened then, was an outer statement made by Steve Jobs who declare to the world the deficiencies of Adobe Flash for mobile devices. The reasons on that paper published by Jos went on from poor battery performance, and many bugs that would make the device crash. So, this event made Apple and Adobe Flash incompatible.

In addition to it, when the first iPad was released Adobe Flash stopped supporting the mobile version, making this software out of the mobile market officially, one that became very, very important in the technology economy for websites like xnxx.

A pronounced death

To add salt to the injury, initiatives such as HTML5 and CSS3 that were regarded as open standards allowed videos reproductions and interaction without a third-party such as Adobe Flash Player. Plus, HTML5 also brought another innovative feature which is support for more complicated web pages such as app-like pages such as Numbers, Keynotes and PDF expert by Readdle. Nevertheless, the other heavy set of reasons on why Adobe Flash Player is dying is because it failed to be secure; so, blackouts and attacks kept coming nonstop. The score of these attacks kept reaching higher and the company did little to patch those gigantic holes in the shortest time possible.

One of the final fatal wounds happened when Youtube moved to HTML5 as their default platform, or when xhamster became one of the biggest websites in Germany, which meant that it will no longer use Adobe Flash Player. This trigger a massive decrease of chrome users who use Flash daily in only four years. So if you kept tracking the reasons, then you would realize that adobe did not face a sudden death, but faced an important number of setbacks from which they never recovered or innovated as a response to it.

Adobe Flash is dying a death by 1,000 cuts — and that's a good thing — via @guardian http://t.co/hEFPyb3RX9 pic.twitter.com/cTdgrj1ezC

— Business Insider Tech (@SAI) August 26, 2015

So what now?

Even though Adobe Flash will cease to be supported for online platforms, the other reality is that the software is still widely used offline. Animators still use it as their preferred platform choice for not only animations but also for game development. In fact, there are many other areas in which this platform is both useful and easy to use for those that do not want to deal with coding languages, for instance. However, if you are a programmer and prefer to make use a language coding to develop apps than Adobe Flash also offers ActionScritp, which was originally designed as a tool to make developers can program with more interactions.