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'''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.

== Description ==

Flash allows [[streaming]] of [[audio]] and [[video]], and can capture [[mouse]], [[keyboard]], [[microphone]] and [[camera]] input.

Flash graphics and animation is designed using the Flash editor, and 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 game|video games]]).

== Adobe Flash Player ==

Adobe Flash Player enables end-users to view Flash content using web browsers, and is supported on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

== ActionScript ==

The ActionScript [[programming language]] allows creation of [[interactive animations]], [[Video game|video games]], [[Web application|web applications]], desktop applications and mobile applications.

== Integrated development environment (IDE) ==

Flash software can be developed using an [[integrated development environment]] (IDE) such as Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Flash Builder, FlashDevelop and Powerflasher FDT.

== Adobe AIR ==

[[Adobe AIR]] enables full-featured desktop and mobile applications to be developed with Flash, and published for [[Microsoft Windows]], Mac [[OS X]], [[Google Android]], and [[iOS]].

Adobe Flash Lite enabled viewing Flash content on older smartphones, but has been discontinued and superseded by Adobe AIR.

== Uses ==

Flash is frequently used to display [[streaming video]], advertisement and [[interactive multimedia]] content on [[Web page|web pages]] and Flash-enabled software.

== Decline of Flash websites ==

However, after the 2000s, the usage of Flash on websites has declined, and as of 2015, Flash is primarily used to build [[Video game|video games]] for [[Mobile device|mobile]] devices with [[Adobe AIR]].

== See also ==

* [[Adobe Flash Player]]
* [[Adobe Systems]]
* [[Flash Video]]

== External links == 

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash Adobe Flash] @ Wikipedia

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