Flash Player support and AIR support

Question

I'm developing an app here in Brazil, that is kind of a directory mall.

It's a Windows based application, developed on AS3, exported on AIR 21.

While the software was going forward, my client found some online articles about the end of the support regarding Flash Player. So my client start to ask me about developing on another platform.

In my understanding, Flash Player support has nothing to do with Adobe AIR projects (AS3 opr FLEX), but my client is not happy with my explanations, so I'd like to know if there is some OFFICIAL documentation about to continuing of AIR support, differences between AIR and Flash Player, and other documents that I can show then so they won't bother me anymore with this subject.

Does someone here can help my on this subject?

Regards,

Bruno Novas

Colin Holgate · Answer

The change in Flash Player support is that like Safari and Firefox, Chrome is going to start letting users click a button to allow a web site to show its Flash content. Flash Player will still be built into IE, Edge, and Chrome, and as a plugin for Safari and Firefox.

Also, you're right, AIR doesn't need any Flash Player support, and AIR itself is frequently updated. There is no reason for you to change tools.

Here is the 'road map' article that talks about the features that are coming up this year and beyond that:

Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes | Adobe Developer Connection

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