What's new in Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2
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This document discusses several new features in Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2, including multi-touch support, local audio encoding, global error handling, opening files with the default application, and launching native processes. It provides code examples and details on implementing multi-touch events and gestures, accessing raw audio data from microphones, handling uncaught errors globally, opening files with native applications, and communicating with bundled native executables from AIR applications.
What's new in Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2
- 1. What’s new in Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 SERGE JESPERS EMEA PLATFORM EVANGELIST serge@adobe.com http://www.webkitchen.be http://twitter.com/sjespers ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 2. Content protection Accelerometer support Storage volume detection Server sockets Improved printing Nested transactions Native process Globalization API Accessibility Multi-touch Peer assisted networking Exit event on shutdownFile promises UDP support Stream enhancements Gestures NetworkInfo API Encrypted sockets Lower CPU consumption WebKit upgrades OS download security dialog IPv6 support Lower memory consumption Open Files with default application Screen orientation API Designed for mobile Local audio encoding Rendering engine improvements Private browsing mode Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. ®
- 3. Content protection Accelerometer support Storage volume detection Server sockets Improved printing Nested transactions Native process Globalization API Accessibility Multi-touch Peer assisted networking Exit event on shutdownFile promises UDP support Stream enhancements Gestures NetworkInfo API Encrypted sockets Lower CPU consumption WebKit upgrades OS download security dialog A lot! IPv6 support Lower memory consumption Open Files with default application Screen orientation API Designed for mobile Local audio encoding Rendering engine improvements Private browsing mode Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. ®
- 4. Content protection Accelerometer support Storage volume detection Server sockets Improved printing Nested transactions Native process Globalization API Accessibility Multi-touch Peer assisted networking Impossible to Exit event on shutdownFile promises UDP support Stream enhancements Gestures NetworkInfo API WebKit upgradescover everything! Encrypted sockets Lower CPU consumption OS download security dialog IPv6 support Lower memory consumption Open Files with default application Screen orientation API Designed for mobile Local audio encoding Rendering engine improvements Private browsing mode Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. ®
- 5. Multi-touch ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 6. Multi-touch • Similar to multiple mouse events • Both multi-touch events and gesture events • Requires multi-touch hardware (Pre y obvious) • Windows 7+ • OSX 10.6 + multi-touch trackpad (gestures only) • Mobile • Amount of touch points only limited by the hardware • Supported in AIR 2 and FP10.1 (if the browser supports multi- touch) ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 7. Multi-touch • PROPERTIES Multitouch.inputMode GESTURE / TOUCH_POINT / NONE Multitouch.supportsGestureEvents Multitouch.supportsTouchEvents Multitouch.maxTouchPoints Multitouch.supportedGestures ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 8. Multi-touch • TouchEvent Events TouchEvent.TOUCH_BEGIN TouchEvent.TOUCH_END TouchEvent.TOUCH_MOVE TouchEvent.TOUCH_OUT TouchEvent.TOUCH_OVER TouchEvent.TOUCH_ROLL_OUT TouchEvent.TOUCH_ROLL_OVER TouchEvent.TOUCH_TAP ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 9. Multi-touch • TouchEvent Properties TouchEvent.altKey / commandKey / controlKey / ctrlKey / shiftKey TouchEvent.isPrimaryTouchPoint TouchEvent.pressure TouchEvent.sizeX / sizeY ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 10. Multi-touch • TransformGestureEvent TransformGestureEvent.GESTURE_PAN TransformGestureEvent.GESTURE_ROTATE TransformGestureEvent.GESTURE_SWIPE TransformGestureEvent.GESTURE_ZOOM • PressAndTapGestureEvent PressAndTapGestureEvent.GESTURE_PRESS_AND_TAP ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 11. Multi-touch • GestureEvent Properties GestureEvent.altKey / commandKey / controlKey / ctrlKey / shiftKey GestureEvent.phase ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 12. Multi-touch • Demos fitc_multitouch fitc_gestures ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 13. Local audio encoding ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 14. Local audio encoding • Access raw audio data from the microphone on the client • Uses the sampleData event to capture audio data from a microphone ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 15. Local audio encoding • DEMO fitc_microphone ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 16. Global error handling ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 17. Global error handling • Most requested feature • One error handler for all uncaught errors... • Not an excuse to not write error handlers! • Does not show error popup to user (if on non-debug version) ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 18. Global error handling • DEMO fitc_globalerror ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 19. Opening files ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 20. Opening les • Open les in their default application • Don’t need to know which app to open • Works cross platform ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 21. Opening les • DEMO fitc_openwithnativeapp ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 22. Native Process ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 23. Native process • Launch and communicate with native processes • Bundle your AIR app with your executables • Build native installers • .DMG for Mac • .EXE for Windows • .DEB or .RPM for Linux ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 24. Native process • DEMO air2_NativeProcess command line packager package assistant ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 25. Storage detection ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 26. Storage detection • Listen for mounting and unmounting storage volumes • List accessible volumes and its info (drive le er, type, writable, ...) ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 27. Storage detection • DEMO fitc_storagedetection ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 28. Quickies ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 29. Quickies • New print enhancements • Vector printing on Mac • Complete control over printjob • Updated WebKit version (same version as Safari 4.0.3) • JavaScript 50% faster (SquirrelFish engine) • CSS3 • Canvas ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 30. Quickies • New networking support • Sockets (UDP, server sockets) • DNS lookup • Network interface enumeration • Screen reader support (on Windows) • Maximum window size doubled (4095x4095) • More... ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 31. Where to go from here? ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 32. Where to go from here? • h p://labs.adobe.com • h p://adobe.com/devnet • h p://tv.adobe.com • h p:// ex.org/tour • Lunch! ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351
- 33. Where to go from here? • DEMO Me packing up and getting a sandwich ® Copyright 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. #adobeAUG XL351