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I heard that Flash will be shut down in 2020.

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I heard that Flash will be shut down in 2020. After that, will Flash-created content become unavailable on the web after that? There are a lot of Flash learning contents created by our school. After 2020, do we have to convert all of them to other languages like HTML5? And do you know exactly when the service is finished?

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      Correct answer jeromiec83223024

      This is the official Adobe announcement.  It links to related announcements by each of the major US browser vendors.  I would strongly recommend reading all of them in order to understand any potential impact to your customers or products.

      Flash & The Future of Interactive Content | Adobe Blog

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      MousePop
      Participant
      May 3, 2020

      What will happen to Webkinz 😞

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      Bownarrow
      Participant
      January 29, 2020

      why on my birth month but all games that run on flash player will switch to either having to run the games with flash player or without it or use HTML 5 and happywheels is making an alternative  version of the original verison it will be free to play without flash player. But i'm really sad that its  going away. Goodbye Flash player.

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      Paul Darky
      Inspiring
      December 24, 2019

      This is from HARMAN website:

       

      https://airsdk.harman.com/faq

       

      https://airsdk.harman.com/faq

       

      Under FAQS > Other

       

      Q: I’ve got a website that needs Flash Player, how can I continue with this beyond 2020?

      There are a few options for Flash-based web applications, particularly when using Flex. HARMAN provides software services to support migration of content away from Flash/Flex using a variety of tools and technologies, including Haxe, Apache Royale, Angular, OpenUI5, and many other JavaScript frameworks. If the application can be deployed outside of the browser, then it is often simpler to reuse the Flash-based technologies: either migrating the app to use AIR, or if it’s a website that uses a lot of HTML/JS code, then HARMAN have the option to provide a “packaged browser” solution where we wrap up a browser engine (such as Chromium) along with a customised version of the Flash Player, such that the package is a separate installable app that is purely intended to load and run the web application. For any more information about these options, please contact us at adobe.support@harman.com

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        Highschooler58
        Participant
        December 5, 2019

        This will screw up a lot of schools I mean I use adobe flash every day! I also play games that require adobe flash I mean what will gaming companies do once adobe is shut down!! I'm going to make a complaint to them lol! Love you all good luck!

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        Test Screen Name
        Legend
        December 5, 2019

        Gaming companies have also had years to convert, and unlike teachers have no excuse that they aren't technicians. Many, many games will die and with them the companies that reply on them. It's sad that people have adopted the "ostrich" approach to solving this problem.

        Robert Mc Dowell
        Robert Mc Dowell
        Legend
        December 5, 2019

        @Test_Screen_Name

        Do you know how much money and human resources it needs to rewrite a game or application for a company?

        I guess not, unfortunately this situation is not a game. it's more serious or it's a very bad game.

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          Anonymous
          September 23, 2019

          is adobe flash  shutting down next year

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          Test Screen Name
          Legend
          November 4, 2019

          Adobe Flayer PLAYER support will be removed in all major browsers next year, and then Flash Player will not be available. I'd say that's a yes. Read the messages and you will find a link to Adobe's official info.

          jeromiec83223024
          Community Manager
          jeromiec83223024Community ManagerCorrect answer
          Community Manager
          August 9, 2018

          This is the official Adobe announcement.  It links to related announcements by each of the major US browser vendors.  I would strongly recommend reading all of them in order to understand any potential impact to your customers or products.

          Flash & The Future of Interactive Content | Adobe Blog

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            Test Screen Name
            Legend
            August 9, 2018

            So, if I think about it, your premise is that Adobe will not "just stop a technology of 20 years" etc, for the reasons you state (which are good) even though they have said that they will stop it, and given 2 years for migration. You might be right, but I'm not sure a CEO or CIO will take the same view. It's their choice, but they will have to sell your point of view (that Adobe will backtrack on a publicly stated policy agreed with the major browser makers) to board, shareholders, stakeholders, regulators and the public.

              Robert Mc Dowell
              Robert Mc Dowell
              Legend
              August 9, 2018

              did we see any kind of technology shutdown abruptly since the creation of computers?

              today you can still use for example VNC connected to DOS systems. old arcade games simulators and so on...

              the technology will extinct when no one will be interested to use it. So, to be logic, I guess there are many many companies, developers, schools and universities who have simply not the time, the resources or the money to reinvent the wheel, rather, they will certainly find a solution (myself included as I don't want to spend all my life to recode the same projects over and over every 10 years)  to run their precious applications on another way, and it's what will happen, given the health of the world economy today....

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              Test Screen Name
              Legend
              August 9, 2018

              Referring to the original question... Robert, are you advising someone (a school) with a lot of investment in Flash based content, to ignore Adobe's statement that Flash Player will be gone in 2020, and do nothing because "something" will turn up? That may be a tough sell to the people in charge of business planning. If you aren't advising they do nothing at all, what planning advice can you give so that they can say to their governing board they are confident there will not be an interruption in studies?

                Robert Mc Dowell
                Robert Mc Dowell
                Legend
                August 9, 2018

                Test Screen Name

                Let's take the situation into the most simple way:

                if you were the CEO of Adobe, will you just stop a technology of 20 years experience, that played the main actor in internet RIA (still today), lose hundred of millions of $$, and let millions of corporations, companies, self employed, websites, universities and schools orphans without any replacement to not break anything?

                think about it...

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                Test Screen Name
                Legend
                August 8, 2018

                Personally when Adobe say they will stop providing Flash Player by 2020, I believe them. And I do not think they will make something else instead (for playing existing Flash content on web sites). Active developers have tools and alternatives that they might use to develop alternatives. Some people remain optimistic that there will be a solution, but I don't personally share this optimism for existing sites without ongoing developers. I recognise there are a range of opinions.

                  Robert Mc Dowell
                  Robert Mc Dowell
                  Legend
                  August 8, 2018

                  it's not opinions, it's facts. believe what you want, what I believe is facts. Working as a developers since 30 years I know what are the trends and how the internet is evolving since 25 years as it's my job. internet is not only games, videos, websites, it's also banks, companies, corporations, universities and I really understand Adobe to just get hidden from the web development although they still are working hard to offer top development softwares. Today we are not shrink to one tech, but we have a lot of choice of how can we compile and integrate any kind of language into a web page from standards consortium, which is a good thing for everybody, and for sure no one will go to Flash forum to spit their anger when it does not work but redirect to the browsers developers....

                  _maria_
                  Community Manager
                  _maria_Community Manager
                  Community Manager
                  August 8, 2018

                  it's not opinions, it's facts.

                  Not sure where/who you're getting your 'facts' from, however, there are no plans to support Flash Player beyond 2020, as announced last summer.

                  @keithshawns

                  I recommend you refer to Adobe's Flash EOL announcement at https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/​. This blog post also contains links to the various browser vendor's response and future plans.

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