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Future of Flash

Future of Flash. what will replace it ? By: Pao K. Lor. Table of Contents. What is flash History Type of flash Roles Pros Cons What replace flash Future of flash Flash code: .NET S ummary. Flash. What is Flash ? A tool Application. History of Flash.

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Future of Flash

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  1. Future of Flash what will replace it? By: Pao K. Lor

  2. Table of Contents • What is flash • History • Type of flash • Roles • Pros • Cons • What replace flash • Future of flash • Flash code: .NET • Summary

  3. Flash • What is Flash? • A tool • Application

  4. History of Flash • Flash has been in existence since 1996 • because if this, Flash has a strong base of developers and users. • low-level programming model in Flash 4.0 • Flash is Client-side technology • In the past: • Flash labeled as a technology only useful for creating animations and banner ads • current version, Flash 11 • earlier versions run on • PlayStation 3 (Flash 9) • PSP (Flash 6)

  5. Client-side technology

  6. ShockWave Flash • .SWF file • MacroMedia Flash Files are saved in .fla format • .fla file are compiled into .SWF file format (Adobe, ActionScript) • .SWF file is not editable and can be executed using Flash Player.

  7. .SWF file

  8. Client-side technology • Creates a reactive user interfaces • Performs validation • Loads images dynamically

  9. Client-side technology • Limitation to web servers • DataBases • Filesystems

  10. Flash • Flash MX • Allows flash to communicate with the server-side technology • ASP.NET Flash • Flash tag-team with ASP.NET • Banner ads • Animated graphic

  11. Flash for ASP.NET • Flash and ASP.NET tag-team combination • Passing data between client-side Flash movie and server-side ASP.NET code • Flash movie has access to the data in .swf file • Combination of ASP.NET and SQL

  12. Methods of Communicating • Communicating between Flash and ASP.NET • FlashVars: one-way comunication • LoadVars: exchange data between the client and server • XML Object: similar to LoadVars but formatted in XML document structure • Web services uses SOAP. (example- google search) • Simple Object Access Protocol • Server side logic accessed over standard network protocol(HTML, XML, SMTP, etc...) • .NET Flash Remoting: most powerful option ($)

  13. Flash Remoting

  14. Flash • Roles it plays online • According to Adobe • 3 million developer use Flash platform • 85% of top websites use Flash player • 75% of web video is viewed using Flash Player • 98% of enterprises rely on Flash Player • 98% of internet connected PCs have Flash Player • 70% of web gaming use Flash player

  15. Pros of Flash • Flash can be read by screen readers • users all-round the World Wide Web used it • A lot of application that support flash required Flash player to play them • Security for the Flash file is more secure • New version provided better and more features

  16. Cons of Flash • used a relatively high CPU usage of Flash Video playback • When the ActionScript 2.0 is upgrade to version 3.0 the older website will not benefit from it • not available on Apple’s iOS devices: • iPhone • iPod touch • iPad • complicate converting from web application to hand held console device

  17. What will replace Flash • HTML5 • support a more variety of application from web • Easier to adapt to handheld devices • Developers agreed that HTML5 is most suitable for web application

  18. What is HTML5 • Fifth revision of the HTML standard • play audio and video within the web page • working draft started in January 2011 • Is implemented to a large degree with the new browser in 2011

  19. Future of Flash • Flash online gaming application • web application that required flash • animation program for low-cost 2D television • commercial animation

  20. Should You Learn Flash? • it is widely supported and has lots of features that anyone can use • Flash is compatible with almost any browser • Find in games like Y8, Newgrounds, and Kongregate. • HTML5 is still far from achieving what Flash can do: • Games • Videos • Applications • Flexibility • audience.

  21. Flash is losing, Adobe is not • Adobe has released its own Flash to HTML5 conversion tool • Wallaby: a free AIR application • Adobe’s AIR platform • Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) • Allows developers to use Flash and other tools to develop standalone web apps for mobile devices • (Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax)

  22. 2012 flash • 2012 flash 11.2 released • new silent auto-update feature • about 200 million people have opted into receiving the silent background updates • update those users to a new version of the flash player in less than 24 hours

  23. Future Flash • Flash for gaming future abilitie: • actionscriptworkers multi-threading • support for advanced profiling using MONOCLE • New CPU/GPU/Memory profiling • Find bottlenecks in your apps faster then before • change form CPU rendering to GPU for 3d gaming

  24. Setup for programming • Download: • ASPNetFlash.NET3.dll file into the Bin folder (ASP.NET Flash www.aspnetflash.com) • Register: • <%@ Register Assembly="ASPNetFlash.NET3" Namespace="ASPNetFlash" TagPrefix="ASPNetFlash" %>

  25. .Net Code <ASPNetFlash:Flash ID="Flash1" runat="server" MovieURL="~/cube.swf"> • <FlashVariables> • <ASPNetFlash:FlashVariable Name="FlashVarName“> FlashVarValue • </ASPNetFlash:FlashVariable> • </FlashVariables> • <HTMLAlternativeTemplate> • <asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButtonGetFlashPlayer" runat="server" PostBackUrl="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" ImageUrl="~/images/get_flash_player.gif" /> • </HTMLAlternativeTemplate> </ASPNetFlash:Flash> (www.netaspflash.com)

  26. Summary of Flash • Flash play a major role in the great dynamic change in web page • A “base” that developers will refer to • still one of the most use applications: • to play video • music • advertisement banner • So what will flash be in the future? • Online game application is a start

  27. References • Moore, Ryan. Foundation (2006). Foundation ASP.NET for Flash. Berkeley, CA. Online Book. • Cheung, KaWai, and Craig Bryant (2006). Flash Application Design Solutions: The Flash Usability Handbook. Berkeley, CA. Online Book. • Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader (2008). Professional ASP.NET 3.5 in C# and VB. Indianapolis, IN. Print Book. • Shankland, Stephen (2010). Jobs: Why Apple Banned Flash From the iPhone. Deep Tech. • HTML Current Status. World Wide Web Consortium. • ASP.NET Flash. Retrieved From www.aspnetflash.com.

  28. QUESTION?

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