New Frontiers in Motion and Interactivity

Joseph Labrecque

RMAUG : CS6 Party : Denver | June 12th 2012

Joseph Labrecque, MA

University of Denver - OTL Senior Interactive Software Engineer Adjunct Faculty

Fractured Vision Media, LLC Proprietor

Twitter: @JosephLabrecque Web: http://josephlabrecque.com/

Flash Professional Runtime Enhancements / CreateJS

Creative Cloud Apps / Services / Sharing

Edge Motion / Interactivity

Adobe Flash Professional CS6

Adobe: “FLASH IS NOT DEAD”

photo via Grant Garrett - @InfluxisGrant

• Support for AIR 3.2 and Flash Player 11.2

• Package AIR as a single application with Captive Runtime

• Access platform or device-specific capabilities using pre-compiled Native Extensions

• AIR mobile simulation • Enhanced remote debugging

Flash Runtimes Support

Simulate a variety of common interactions and sensors through the built-in simulator. • Menu Buttons • Accelerometer • Touch • Gestures • Geolocation

Mobile Content Simulator

• Export image sequences from symbols & bitmaps in Library

• Transform symbols & export sequences from Stage

• Process automation using JS APIs

• Create sprite sheets from symbols in Library or on Stage

• JSON, XML, JS output • Extensible data output

Sprite Sheet Export

• Classic tweens & easing • Bitmaps, text, vector art, sounds • Groups, movieclip & graphic symbols • Shadow & glow, add blend mode, cache • Labels & timeline JavaScript • Warnings

CreateJS Toolkit

• Hi-efficiency SWF file compression (LZMA) • Direct windows mode setting for HTML publishing

(for Stage3D) • Direct render mode for AIR publishing (for

Stage3D) • Library panel performance improvements on

Windows • Manage multiple AIR SDKs • Increase maximum Stage size to 8192 x 8192

What else is new?

demo

Flash Runtimes: Moving Beyond-11/09/11

• Cubic Bezier curves • DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren() • MovieClip.isPlaying • Enhanced High-Resolution Bitmap Support • Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding • JPEG-XR Support • Stage3D

FLASH PLAYER 11

• H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras

• G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony • Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support • Socket Progress Events • Native 64-bit Support • High-Efficiency SWF Compression Support • Garbage Collection Advice

FLASH PLAYER 11

• Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming and Flash Access Content Protection Support for Mobile

• Secure Random Number Generator • Secure Sockets Support

FLASH PLAYER 11

• Cubic Bezier curves • DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren() • MovieClip.isPlaying • Enhanced High-Resolution Bitmap Support • JPEG-XR Support • Stage3D • StageText Native Text Input UI (Mobile) • StageVideo Hardware Acceleration (Mobile)

ADOBE AIR 3

• H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras • G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony • Camera Position API (Mobile) • Device Speaker Control (Mobile) • Background Audio Playback Support on iOS

(Mobile) • Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support • Socket Progress Events

ADOBE AIR 3

• ActionScript Native Extensions • Captive Runtime Support • Android Color Depth Setting (Mobile) • Garbage Collection Advice • Encrypted Local Storage (Mobile) • Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming and Flash

Access Content Protection Support for Mobile • Secure Random Number Generator

ADOBE AIR 3

• Security enhancements • Enables Flash Player with Android 4.0 (ICS) • Final version of Flash Player for mobile browsers

FLASH PLAYER 11.1

• Security enhancements • Updated Native Extensions for iOS 5 • Updated Native text input UI for Android

ADOBE AIR 3.1

• Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed to 2008

• ThrottleEvent.THROTTLE • Mouse Lock + Relative Mouse Coordinates • Right Click + Middle Click Events • Multithreaded video decoding (Windows, Mac OS,

and Linux) • Flash Player background updates (Windows)

FLASH PLAYER 11.2

• Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed to 2008

• ThrottleEvent.THROTTLE • Mouse Lock + Relative Mouse Coordinates • Right Click + Middle Click Events • Multithreaded video decoding (Windows, Mac OS)

ADOBE AIR 3.2

• Full screen keyboard input • Frame label events • MouseEvent.RELEASE_OUTSIDE • ApplicationDomain.getQualifiedDefinitionNames() • New driverInfo details • Low latency audio support for streaming audio

through NetStream

FLASH PLAYER 11.3

• BitmapData.drawWithQuality • BitmapData.encode() • Protected Mode for Firefox • Flash Player background updates (Mac OS) • Low latency audio support • Texture Streaming for Stage3D

FLASH PLAYER 11.3

• Frame label events • MouseEvent.RELEASE_OUTSIDE • ApplicationDomain.getQualifiedDefinitionNames() • New driverInfo details • Low latency audio support for streaming audio

through NetStream • Improved Mac App Store Support

ADOBE AIR 3.3

• BitmapData.drawWithQuality • BitmapData.encode() • Low latency audio support • Texture Streaming for Stage3D • USB debugging for iOS • Enhanced Background behavior for iOS • Stylus support for Android 4.0 (ICS) • Simulator Support (Mac) • Aspect Ratio Enhancements

ADOBE AIR 3.3

• ActionScript workers (THREADS!) • Support for advanced profiling • Support for more hardware-accelerated video

cards (from 2005/2006) in order to expand availability of hardware accelerated content

• Improved ActionScript performance when targeting iOS

• Performance index API to inform about performance capabilities of current environment

Flash / AIR - “Dolores”

Modernization of the core runtime code and the ActionScript language. • ActionScript “Next” • Flash Player / AIR “Next” • Flash Builder + • Flash Professional + HELLCAT!

FLASH FUTURE

Adobe Creative Cloud

• Download all CS6 and other desktop tools – plus integrate with Adobe Touch Apps, so you can work anywhere.

• Use intuitive cloud-based sync and store to collaborate or share your ideas and access your work from anywhere.

• Easily publish and deliver content to iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.

• Always have the most up-to-date technology.

Why Creative Cloud?

All CS6 Master Collection applications plus: • Adobe Edge • Adobe Muse • TypeKit subscription • Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition • Business Catalyst • 20GB Storage • Device Sync • More!

Creative Cloud Extras

demo

Adobe Edge preview 6

Why Edge?

image via Lee Brimelow - @leebrimelow

HTML & Friends

Adobe Edge Prototype

Edge Today

The Edge Stage

The Edge Library

The Edge Timeline

Edge Symbols

Edge Preloaders

demo

No matter what platforms you are targeting…

Flash Player, Web Browsers, Mobile

Devices, Desktop…

The Adobe Creative Cloud includes the professional

tools which enable creativity and allow for nearly

unbound expressiveness across all platforms.

Thank you.

@JosephLabrecque