The future of Animate (regarding Flash Player)

[asia]

Hello,

I wonder if you can help me. I’m writing with regards to the official Adobe announcement that Flash Player will be discontinued in 2020 (https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/).

The company I work for uses Adobe Animate extensively to produce work for clients, publishing to .exe, .app and mobile AIR apps. We are concerned and wondering: as these files contain SWF and Flash Player, will that still be possible to publish them using Animate (in future releases)?

Thank you,

Asia

[Colin Holgate]

SWF isn't going away, just the browser Flash Player plugin. SWF is still important for AIR and animating for video, and standalone projectors.

[Carbonstudio · Accepted solution]

I found this guide useful in explaining a few things on this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsGbBvRpfLU