the future of flash

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January 28, 2019
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It is said that the development of flash player will be stopped at the end of 2020

Will the development of the game and app for Android,ios,windows,mac also stop?

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Correct answer martin_nz

https://forums.adobe.com/people/martin+nz wrote
i am waiting for a clear answer from adobe responsibles
will stop android,ios,win,mac exporting in animate cc (based on as3) after 2020 ?
this question is based on this adobe statement : https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

I guess that Animate CC and Mobile Device Packaging will live on. What will stop in 2020 (and is already in heavy decline) is everything build for the Flash Player.

"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 .. open formats."

So AIR for Desktop, Android and iOS will live on. And Actionscript 3 as well. No need to drop out.

Klaus

Hi

I found the definitive answer here

https://forums.adobe.com/message/9723772

air for win,mac,android,ios will stay stronger than before

martin_nzAuthor

Inspiring

Dear adobe authorities, please provide a clear answer

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ClayUUID

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I don't even understand what you mean by "the game and app". What game? What app?

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asmith101

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As I said in previous messages : No matter what the output is made by what technology

we want just (output for "Android , ios , web , windows , mac" by Action Script)

This has already been done , and so far, Adobe has not been said that this will not continue

adobe has used Html5 instead of flash player

It can be repeated for Air If it is needed in the future

i think Adobe gave us answer for rumors one time and is not need Adobe give us every day

good luck

I'm not quite sure what you mean by, "Adobe has used HTML5 instead of Flash Player. It can be repeated for AIR if it is needed in the future." To be sure, Adobe has not given developers an automatic conversion from ActionScript to JavaScript. If you use Animate's feature to generate HTML5 canvas content, you will need to rewrite frame scripts in JavaScript to target CreateJS or some other JS framework. And if you have any external classes and libraries, you will need to rewrite those as well. We need to understand that there will be no silver bullet here. When AIR is discontinued, do not expect Adobe to put huge engineering effort into creating a smooth path forward.

There are some community efforts to create AS3 to JS converters, and some of these have come pretty far. But it is a mistake to not realize that at some point in time, perhaps not many years from now, ActionScript will no longer be viable.

To be honest, I think people who really like the Flash API and want to target all of these platforms with a language similar to ActionScript should take a serious look at OpenFL. It is by far the strongest community-led effort, and in my opinion it is the best chance Flash developers have to ensure the future of Flash-like development.

Finally, remember that Adobe's decision makers are not the same as the people who develop Flash. We heard from the latter. But it is the former, the people higher up in the company, who make the call, And in the past, they have shown that their decisions are driven by their shareholders' interests - as they should be. The development team may get caught off guard by Adobe's business decisions quite as much as we do.