Macromedia Flash/Adobe Animate - a Quality port for the iPad Pro

Report · Oct 08, 2018

I got into macromedia flash mx back in the day as a young teen, I studied and created in that program for thousands of hours growing up. I always wanted a cintiq but its price deterred me, the ipad pro has seriously caught my interest, especially the rumored 2018 model.

I looked into Adobe's iOS apps and nothing of a flash/animate equivalent exists, at least to my knowledge.

Adobe could make it and the ipad pro could handle it, at least something similar. Actionscript could be done without, maybe keep a basic form of it, like 2.0 or whatever works (I know basic 2.0 like the back of my hand, haven't used it really in close to decade.)

The animation and design of the flash mx-flash 8 were my focus for so long, and I thought it was the perfect amount of UI complexity and intuitiveness that made it work so well for so many.

So with all of that said and the financial gains adobe could reap, (I would easily pay $50-$200 for a quality port equivalent)

It could open up a whole generation of young and old to a program that has launched so many artists currently leading the creative culture in this world, a true testament to Adobes quality contributions for the creative world.

Please let me know what you think and if you support such a thing so adobe will hopefully heed the call.

plus, add your ideas and thoughts.

Report · Nov 03, 2018

At Adobe MAX they showed a full version of PhotoShop working on iPad Pro, and they showed other prototypes that seemed very much like it was Illustrator on iPad Pro. So, Adobe can certainly do it, and the iPad Pro can as well. There are plenty of people on the Animate prerelease who use tablets, and have asked for iPad Pro support, at least as an imput device.

It could be worth you joining the prerelease program, if you're not on it already, so you can give more direct feedback about why Animate running on iPad Pro would be a good thing for the Animate team to do.

About price, I would still hope it would be free, that is, you get it as part of the full CC subscription. That way Adobe gain $75 per month rather than $200 one time. They do like it when there's another reason that people subscribe!

Mohanaraj