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popolino17
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August 7, 2017
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End-of-life Flash or what about Adobe Flash Builder future...

  • August 7, 2017
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Hello Adobe,

We would like to be informed in more details about Your decision to “Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.”

We are a university community and university professor's authority and high school teacher`s community.

We are planning to extend existing inter-organizational educational game platform project which current version is based on ActionScript and executed via ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2).

We are deeply concern what will be the future of Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Animate CC which licenses we intend to buy for a long period.

If Your intention to stop updating and distributing Flash Player (e,g AVM2)  how should this products work  - for example Adobe Flash Builder render its ActionScript code through Flash Player!? Adobe Animate CC executes preview the movie – this is in Flash Player!!!

So, in summary  - Whether this two products shall continue to work without limitations after 2020?

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jeromiec83223024
jeromiec83223024
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August 8, 2017

The wise long-term approach would be to adapt your curriculum to use technologies based on the Web Platform (HTML and JavaScript)  or a dedicated game development platform, in favor of Flash Player and ActionScript.  While we're well aware that Flash Builder and Animate CC are great tools for building games, as you've noted, Flash Player is going away. 

The technology and workflow choices that are right for you are going to be largely dependent on your curriculum and the needs of your students.

It's also worth noting that as the major U.S. browser vendors move forward with their agenda to deprecate Flash Player and plug-in interfaces altogether, you'll see an increasing amount of friction in running Flash content on your workstations well before the 2020 deadline.  You'll probably want to adapt your course sooner, rather than later, if only to stay ahead of the support pain. 

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popolino17Author
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August 9, 2017

Thanks jeromiec83223024,

Although Your answer is crystal clear targeting Flash player plugin demise - the main question was - Is it worth We to BUY a LICENSE for the products (mentioned above) that rely on dying technology?

If the concequences of deprecating Flash player have so huge negative impact on Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Animte CC - We will abandone our idea to implement it both at all.

    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    August 9, 2017

    That's really going to depend on your course and what your needs are.  If your students aren't developing the course in ActionScript, buying an ActionScript IDE like Flash Builder probably doesn't make sense. 

    That said, if you're adapting your course to focus on game development using HTML5, Animate CC may be a great solution for in-game animation and asset creation.  We wanted to take the rich content development workflows that animators were used to with Flash and bring them forward to the modern web.  The addition of support for HTML and JavaScript output is what inspired the name change.

    My personal focus around here is relatively narrow.  I work on Flash Player, and am focused on engineering details.

    Adobe has a fantastic education team and a lot of product evangelists that focus on helping customers build great experiences using our tools.  It's probably worth your time to reach out to our education team to see how we can best help you to both transition your course, and choose the best products to support that effort.

    You can find contact information for the education team, here:

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