Jussi Torppa THE FUTURE OF FLASH-DEVELOPMENT 1/16

CONTENTS General Flash CS5.5 Games & mobile apps AIR Flash Builder Flash Catalyst Wallaby Summary 2/16

GENERAL1/2 Flash often synonymous with ”website” From animation platform to full-feature application platform Browser-based apps decreasing (html5) AS3 programming can be used even more diversely (RIA) 3/16

GENERAL2/2 Flash Platform More tools for Flash-development Why decentralized? What is it good for and what not? 4/16

ADOBE FLASH CS5.5 5/16 Not so essential anymore Better support for other Platform-applications More diverse mobile programming tools

ADOBE AIR The kay component of the Flash Platform Browser not needed (AIR Runtime) Independent apps for many platforms.air 6/16

GAMES AND MOBILE APPS Growing demand for mobile apps Flash Lite was a slight failure Molehill, GPU-accelerated 3d-support Added reality (Total Immersion) Android, iOS, Blackberry (desktop apps) 7/16

MOLEHILL EXAMPLE VIDEO 8/16

FLASH BUILDER Newest version 4.5, previously Flex Independent or Eclipse add-on Flex Framework SDK AS3 & mxml A lot of different project bases Easy to combine different programming languages in the app Publishing for web / AIR 9/16

FLASH CATALYST Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks Not neccessarry to write code julkaisu.swf / AIR 11/16

WALLABY 13/16 Free.fla HTML5, Javascript & CSS Loki iOS Only for webkit-browser engine browsers

WALLABY EXAMPLE VIDEO 14/16

SUMMARY 15/16 Tools have split Communication between tools getting better all the time Platform-independent apps 3D and added reality will be significant in the future Wallabys future will be interesting

THANKS! 16/16