Adobe Flash Platform

The Adobe® Flash® Platform is an integrated set of application programming technologies surrounded by an established ecosystem of support programs, business partners, and enthusiastic user communities. Together, they provide everything you need to create and deliver compelling applications, content, and video to the widest possible audience across screens and devices.

Why use the Flash Platform?

A complete system

Use professional tools, an open source framework, ubiquitous clients, and scalable servers to take applications and content from prototype to production and video from planning to playback.

Expressiveness, consistency, and reach

Deliver expressive content and applications that run consistently across the widest reach of browsers, operating systems, and devices.

Agile design and development

Achieve faster time to market with integrated tools and flexible workflows that support independent but synchronized front-end design and back-end development with rapid cycling of multiple iterations.

Robust, open ecosystem

Enjoy compatibility with leading tools and browsers, support for open standards, integration with leading infrastructure partners, developer training programs, co-marketing and distribution opportunities, and a developer community over three million strong.

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Customer success stories

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Sling Media

Using the Flash Platform, Sling Media dramatically reduced development time for delivering content across multiple screens and devices.

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Kongregate

Kongregate and its developer community leverage Flash Player 10.1 to bring online games to Android™ devices.

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Photobucket

Using the Flash Platform, Photobucket built a mobile version of its site to allow users to upload and browse photos and video directly from smartphones.

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