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Is there a replacement player for the Flash player?

  • August 15, 2018
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We use Animate to create interactive content materials and since the termination announcement of Flash, we have been looking into different solutions. We have been exporting our projects as Win and Mac Projector to distribute the materials to our instructors. Now that Flash will end in 2020, will this also end the Flash player that is bundled with the Projector file? If so, will there be a replacement player for Projector? If someone can clarify it for me, that would be great.

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    Correct answer _maria_

    Maria and/or Staff Member.

    To be clear, we can use Flash as we do today through 2020 (end of 2020) meaning that it will not be "dead" until the beginning of 2021?

    Please confirm.

    Thanks,

    Tim


    Adobe will end-of-life Flash at the end of 2020, as previously announced, and the browser vendors are following suit, as they have previously announced as well.  With each update, browser vendors are adding more friction and making it more difficult for users to use Flash.  I think that gives you an idea of the direction browser vendors are moving to.

    As mentioned in Adobe's official announcement, Flash & The Future of Interactive Content | Adobe Blog :

    Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. 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 these new open formats.

    In addition to the links above, the following provides additional information for Firefox and Chrome:

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    jeromiec83223024
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    jeromiec83223024Community Manager
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    August 15, 2018

    The reason that we provided a three-year lead time on the announcement was to allow content providers time to migrate away from dependencies on Flash Player.  We will not be publishing updates to Flash Player or the projector after 2020, and you would be best served by migrating to something else.


    Adobe Animate CC already provides the ability to publish simple Flash content to HTML5 Canvas (this is the rationale behind the name change from Flash Professional to Animate).  Similarly, courseware content created through Adobe Presenter can be output to HTML5, etc...

    In short, the whole notion of browser plug-ins are going away.  Publishing to the web platform (HTML5 and JavaScript) is going to get you the best experience and widest compatibility inside a web browser over the long term, and I would recommend exploring the HTML5 publishing options already built in to Animate CC for converting your existing content.

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      adalbertom25193695
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      November 19, 2018

      Please clarify me better.

      Applications created on Win and Mac Projector will continue to work after 2020, since they do not rely on a web browser, Flash Player plug-in, Adobe AIR, or any other platform runtime.

      That is, I can continue to develop my applications and export as a projector (.exe and .app) and use them even after 2020.

      Am I right?

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      Pother
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      April 5, 2019

      In my case I create in animate cc and export as projector (exe for windows).

      These corporate applications are not widely distributed, and by the way I understand these executables do not rely on plugins since they do not use web, they are local executable.

      I believe that I can continue to produce and use it even after 2020, because if I format the computer and install a new version of windows, clean with nothing related to flash or other programs, my application works normally.

      In summary, the EXE applications I've created are actually a complete projector, an independent executable, so it will continue to work even after 2020.

      Unfortunately I use features where flash has unparalleled superiority.

      CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.


      "Unfortunately I use features where flash has unparalleled superiority."

      See... in that statement the Flash developer is having to say using a SUPERIOR tools is BAD.

      This ENTIRE "KILL FLASH" movement has been SICK and BACKWARDS from the start.

      I seem to twice a year look to see... is there ANYTHING as good as Flash/Animate is... that can do the same thing... and the result keeps coming up... NO.    IF I am wrong about this... PLEASE enlighten me.

      HTML5 and HTML + CSS + Javascript in general is a PILE of "U+1F4A9".

      Flash is STILL ahead technologically.

      What execs at Adobe should have done is doubled-down, and replaced the damn web-browser WITH the FlashPlayer... screw HTML... we can build the web with Flash ONLY!

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