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Raja
Raja

Reputation: 429

what happens to Flex/Flash application after December 2020?

I understand that Adobe will stop supporting Flash in December 2020. All major browsers also might drop support after December 2020. I have a Adobe Flex/Flash application which is currently being used. What are the options I have, considering the above events?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2212

Answers (3)

Hussein Akar
Hussein Akar

Reputation: 425

Flash player will stop being supported in most on the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge..) and many still not done converting their applications to adobe air or any other language.

A quick way to get around will be by replacing the browser with adobe air application hosting our original flex web application and that need ZERO SECONDS development time because we will not change our original app at all instead the Adobe Air Desktop Application will act as container when it can render both HTML & Flash.

Create a new Flash Project > Under Application Type Choose Desktop (Runs In Adobe Air) > Next > Application Server Type None > Finish

In the newly created project go to Project Name > src > ProjectName.mxml File and add the following:

<mx:HTML id="container" width="100%" height="100%" location="{linkToYourFlexWebProject}/Main.html"></mx:HTML>

this will let the Adobe Air Application open your application.

To finalize the steps please make sure to export Adobe Air Project as follows to avoid any browser flash player dependencies:

Right-Click > Export > Release Build > Export As Signed application with captive runtime > Create the certification key and assign it and you are done.

It will generate a folder with the name of your application when ever you double click the .exe file it will connect to your flex web application online server and will open irrespective if flash player being installed on the device or not even if you changed the date to 2021 where the switch will be trigger to stop supporting flash player this will keep working.

A full video demonstration available: http://youtu.be/qknVIXAKXdQ?hd=1

Upvotes: 0

georgesjeandenis
georgesjeandenis

Reputation: 118

Options :

  • HTML5 + JAVASCRIPT + CSS

Anything that flash does can now be replaced programmatically with the above.

Think about it, Flash is a tool that uses Action Script, which is very much so like javascript languages ( ECMAScript ). Also, it easily manipulates colors, shapes, and sizes ( styles ). Moreover, it renders all of that in a medium ( HTML page ).

The only thing we as programmers need to worry about is to start coding! Because the <canvas> tag is still relatively new, perhaps we need to delve into that more. But be of good cheer! We still have till December of next year...

Upvotes: -3

Douglas McCarroll
Douglas McCarroll

Reputation: 31

You have a number of options.

First of all, if it's not essential that the app run in a browser, i.e. if it would be acceptable for it to be a desktop app, you could convert it to an Adobe AIR app.

Of course, many question how long Adobe will support AIR. They've just transferred support of AIR to a company called Harmon. You can get details about this at the Adobe AIR Development forum (https://forums.adobe.com/community/air/development).

There have also been a number of discussions on that forum about alternative options. HAXE gets a lot of mentions. I suggest that you do some reading on the forum.

Also, you should definitely look at Apache Royale (https://royale.apache.org/) which could be described as "next generation Flex" and is designed for precisely your situation.

Upvotes: 3

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