Adobe Flash (formerly called Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Flash) is a multimedia and software platform used for creating vector graphics, animation, browser games, rich Internet applications,desktop applications, mobile applications and mobile games. Flash displays text, vector and raster graphics to provide animations, video games and applications. It allows streaming of audio and video, and can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera input.
Flash graphics and animation are designed using a variety of Flash editing software, such as Adobe Flash Builder, Adobe Animate,FlashDevelop, or any text editor when used with the Apache Flex SDK. Content may be viewed by end-users using Flash Player (for web browsers), AIR (for desktop or mobile apps) or third-party players such as Scaleform GFx (for video games). Adobe Flash Player enables end-users to view Flash content using web browsers, and is supported onMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Adobe Flash Lite enabled viewing Flash content on older smartphones, but has been discontinued and superseded by Adobe AIR.
The ActionScript programming language allows creation of interactive animations, video games, web applications, desktop applications and mobile applications. Flash software can be developed using an IDE such as Adobe Animate, Adobe Flash Builder, FlashDevelop andPowerflasher FDT. Adobe AIR enables full-featured desktop and mobile applications to be developed with Flash, and published forMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS X, Google Android, and iOS.
Flash is frequently used to display streaming video, advertisement andinteractive multimedia content on web pages and Flash-enabled software. However, after the 2000s, the usage of Flash on Web sites has declined;[1] as of 2015, Flash is primarily used to build video games for mobile devices with Adobe AIR.
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