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April 22, 2020
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Our Flash based Products Running after December 2020

  • April 22, 2020
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We have developed 12 educational products developed in Adobe Flash for helping the Indian masses to learn their mother tognue in ICT way. Each product is is composed of Flash Files .swf and .exe. The application opens on clicking .exe on a machine. The question is whtheter these products can be run even after Dec 2020 or not?
 

eveloped 12 educational products developed in Adobe Flash for helping Indian masses to learn their mother tongue. The product is composed of Flash files .swf and .exe. The application opens on clicking .exe on any machine.


The question is whether these products can be run even after Dec 2020 or not?
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    mattr8755445
    mattr8755445
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    April 26, 2020

    You can test your software on a computer that does not have the Flash plugin installed - if it runs, then you don't need the Flash plugin installed!

    If it's simply a projector .exe that's running .swf content, then I think it should be fine without the Flash plugin.
    An Adobe AIR .exe may need the Flash plugin, depending on how it's been packaged.

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    Test Screen Name
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    April 27, 2020

    Remember Windows 10 cannot be used for this test. Windows 10 includes Flash Player as a system component and it cannot be removed. However after 2020 we expect that Microsoft will remove it. 

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    April 22, 2020

    Adobe will stop distributing Flash Player and browser vendors will stop supporting Flash Player (plugins will not work) at the end of December 2020.

     

    Adobe anounced Flash Player's end-of-life in July 2017 - https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/. All supported browser vendors made similar announcements at the same time.  Links to their announcments are included in Adobe's announcement.

    Both Google and Mozilla have been transparent in publicizing their Flash road-map for their respective browsers:

     

    If you require assistance migrating your project from Flash to a different technology platform, please contact Adobe's partner, Harman.  See https://services.harman.com/partners/adobe for more information.

    A
    azmath.mir@gmail.comAuthor
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    April 24, 2020

    Thanks Maria,

    I just one to rephrase my question. Our software runs with executable file .exe which in turn uses .swf files. On any desktop, it runs well without having Flash Player. So will the application still be functional post Dec 2020 or not?

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