Take a long, hard look at the state of the web, the history of Flex, and the future of the framework. These days, the web is inundated with an endless host of pundits, bloggers, and Twitter junkies upset about the uncertain future of Adobe Flash, HTML5, and native applications. Where are these technologies going? What are their strengths and weaknesses? And how does Flex fit in? This session will give several solid reasons why it's still one of the best technologies a web developer can learn.

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” (Mark Twain, 1897). This statement couldn’t be phrased better for Flash in 2011. But the digital landscape has changed so profoundly that we need to re-examine its new role. “The Death of Flash!” explores the striking irony of the misinformation that’s percolated through the web over the past year. Itai will explore the early beginnings (Flash was originally designed for tablet computers. Who knew?!), the first and second browser wars, Flash’s rise to stardom, AIR’s cross-screen power and how Facebook has become the new microsite. Flash is dead. Long live Flash!

Hear tips and tricks that will get your whole team working better together, just like Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Flash Catalyst! Flash Catalyst CS5.5 offers a host of new features to help you design and prototype your Flex application. Flash Builder 4.5 now supports project roundtripping with Flash Catalyst, extending prototypes to seamlessly flow into your application development process. In this session, you'll learn how to replace dummy content with real data services, create animation on the timeline for use in Flash Builder, and structure large projects for success.

Content providers can take advantage of Adobe AIR to deliver console-quality games, rich media apps with premium video across televisions, Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes. Take a look at successful AIR apps for iOS.

In this episode, learn how SpatialKey uses Adobe Flash Platform to create a flexible tool for enterprises that rely on large location-based data to better present timely information for better decision making.

In this episode, learn how SchoolVIEW by Universal Mind used Adobe Flash Platform to enable the Colorado Department of Education to present student and school achievement data to enable administrators, parents and government funders make better decisions regarding education, creating a uniform approach to student educational achievement.

In this episode, learn how Universal Mind used Adobe Flash Platform to build the Photo Book app for Kodak, helping Kodak offer a profitable online service to allow customers to easily create their own Photo Books to share “Kodak Moments”.

Greg Wilson interviews Quality Engineer Shashwati Keith about using Flash Builder to develop Muni Tracker, a popular mobile app that is available for Android and iOS devices and will soon be available for the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Developer Evangelist Serge Jespers explains how you can build iOS applications using new capabilities in Flex and Flash Builder 4.5.

Diana Helander of Adobe demonstrates rich content and applications on the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1V, running Adobe Flash technology.

Learn how to publish the completed photo gallery project to the web or as an AIR application for the desktop.

Senior Technical Evangelist Duane Nickull illustrates using transformation gestures in Flash Builder, and discusses best practices for zoom events when developing for mobile devices.

The Flash Builder, SAP NetWeaver Gateway Integration Project is focused on helping developers more easily consume data and services from SAP R3 implementations within Flex applications. In this video, see how to build a simple Flex tablet application using SAP data accessed through the SAP Netweaver Gateway.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn which technologies make up the Adobe Flash Platform.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn about the proper terminology for using Flash Builder, and how to organize your application code into projects.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn about the Eclipse Foundation development platform and application framework on which Flash Builder is built. You will also get an overview of the installation and project folders for the tool, and learn about the differences between the Flash Player and the Flash Player Debugger version

During RIM’s BlackBerry World developer conference, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and Danny Winokur, Adobe’s VP of Flash Runtimes, discussed how our developer community has embraced the opportunity to create innovative apps for the PlayBook. Check out the presentation and demos of Flash Player as well as the Adobe Reader and Reader's Digest apps.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn how to use Flash Builder to generate data services, and how to use the visual features of the tool to create a master/detail form based on that data service.

Serge Jespers demonstrates the ease of iPhone app development and Android app development with Flash Builder 4.5.

In this video, Harish Sivaramakrishnan showcases a few ways that you can leverage HTML5 features within your Flex and Flash Builder applications.

In this second episode of a two-part series, Piotr Walczyszyn demonstrates how easy it is to get started with the OAuth API authorization protocol in Adobe AIR applications built with Flash or Flex.

Diana Helander from Adobe shows off fluid and crisp Flash video as well as professional grade apps on the new BlackBerry PlayBook from RIM. Also in this video, is a look at the interactive rendition of the popular Reader's Digest, optimized for the PlayBook and implemented using Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite.

David Wadhwani, SVP at Adobe, discusses Flash Player and AIR momentum, including latest adoption numbers and where the Flash Platform will be in 2011.

A very special guest Brian Chau from Adobe, shows us exactly how to use Flash CS5 to publish directly to an Android 2.2 device. We show you where to get the needed extensions http://labs.adobe.com/ and then into Flash CS5 and look at some special AS3 for gestures on touch screen devices. We also look at the publish settings for Android and publish and Air application and deploy directly to the device.

Learn how to upload and display SWF files seamlessly in an Adobe Connect meeting. Learn how to share Flash functionality among all attendees with the Collaboration Builder Software Developer’s Kit.

Learn how Adobe innovation will continue to drive technology to increase quality, protection, and reach, helping you expand your business using video across devices that support Flash technology. This session will provide an introduction to new Adobe Flash Media Server 4, Open Source Media Framework, Adobe Flash Access, Adobe Flash Player, HTTP Dynamic Streaming, H.264, multicast, and P2P — where we are now and where we're going next. During the session, we'll share some of the brilliant video experiences Adobe customers have created.

Come see the roadmap for the Adobe Flash Platform runtimes — Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Learn what the runtime teams are working on today for delivery soon, and hear how Adobe envisions the future direction of multiscreen development for Flash Player and AIR.

Learn how to stream video and audio over HTTP networks with HTTP Dynamic Streaming and Adobe Flash Player 10.1, helping you lower costs and reach a wider audience with your video content. This session will step you through the workflows for encoding, packaging, protecting, and delivering video using the Open Source Media Framework. Discover techniques to optimize the F4F file format, tweak the F4F file packager and live packager, and apply DRM with Adobe Flash Access 2. Learn how to set up your own HTTP Origin using Apache to work with popular content delivery networks.

Join Danny Winokur, senior director of business development in Adobe's Platform Business Unit, as he provides an update on the Open Screen Project. The Open Screen Project, with more than 70 partners, has been successful not only in delivering both Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR to devices but also in bringing premium, interactive content to screens of all sizes. Danny will walk through the success of Flash Player 10.1 in its adoption on multiple device types and that of AIR on multiple platforms, including smartphones, tablets, and digital TVs.

Learn everything you need to know to optimize your video experience for mobile devices that support Adobe Flash Player 10.1, including encoding and performance best practices, player optimization, delivery techniques, content protection, interactivity, ad integration, and much more. We'll also provide an introduction to Open Source Media Framework and how to use it for mobile platforms.

Explore the development of a language learning tool. We'll cover concept, design, production, and evaluation processes as well as all the tools used in those processes, including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder, and Flash Media Server. Then we'll dive into developing user management, authentication, content management, assessment, reporting, and administrative modules. This session provides you with an open source project you can use to get started building your own language learning projects.

Change the way you think about live video and social media to drive your business with the new P2P options available in the Adobe Flash Platform. Discover how the new P2P protocols (RTMFP) in Flash Player 10.1 can open new doors for video in your applications while significantly reducing your bandwidth costs. This advanced deep-dive session will guide you through the development process for integrating RTMFP Groups and Multicast technology. Topics will include ActionScript development techniques with Adobe Flash Builder, protocol (RTMP/RTMFP) connection failover, video publishing, and managing the peers within the group.

See how NVIDIA Tegra uses the GPU to accelerate both video and graphics within Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for unmatched performance and battery life. In this session, we'll explore how to optimize for the new generation of GPU-accelerated Android phones and tablets and explore the capabilities of these new classes of device.

Join Bill Bain as he discusses why the use of Adobe Flash technology should be taught in higher education. This session will explore education’s role in teaching the Adobe Flash Platform, including best practices for developing RIA curriculum, implementation of industry standards, and creating projects that will leverage greater student success. Curriculum ideas will be addressed as well as how to best leverage Flash and RIAs with other web technologies.

"Join Todd Pasternack and Chris Deely of leading rich media provider PointRoll as they discuss the present and future of rich media mobile advertising. Learn how and why you should leverage Adobe Flash Player 10.1 in your mobile campaigns. They'll explore the overall strategy and creative use of device features and take a look at some code optimized for mobile development. They'll also touch on some of the future uses of Flash Player, including leveraging existing assets, implementing IAB standards, and serving ads into mobile Adobe AIR applications. "

Former Adobe Technical Evangelist Ted Patrick shows how easy it is to publish a Flash project to the Google Nexus One and Droid 2 by Motorola, and also gives a trick for taking different screen sizes into account when designing your app.

Christophe Coenraets, Adobe Systems

Ben Forta, Adobe Evangelist, shows off Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on an exciting new device—the Samsung Galaxy Tab. It is one of the first tablets running Android 2.2, and with support for Flash Player, this 7-inch tablet delivers a PC-like web browsing experience on the go.

At the Adobe MAX conference, thousands of designers, developers and business leaders converge to discover the next wave of opportunities fueled by the explosion of rich content and applications across multiple screens, the merging of digital content and commerce, and workflows that bring design and development together.

SonicSwap leverages the Adobe Flash Platform to automate iTunes playlist generation for end-users right on their desktops and smartphones.

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

Ted Patrick of Adobe explores the full, open web on the new DROID X by Motorola running Flash Player 10.1. Android 2.2 and Flash Player 10.1 will be delivered to DROID X via an over the air update by late summer.

In this video, Platform Evangelist Tom Krcha discusses how to create a simple peer-to-peer chat using group posting with Adobe Cirrus and the Flash Platform.

Platform Evangelist Tom Krcha describes how to broadcast video to a group of participants using the peer-to-peer multicast streaming capabilities in Flash Player 10.1.

Terry Ryan gives us a look at what's new and on the horizon with the Flash Platform

Dave Watts from Fig Leaf Software demonstrates the use of ColdFusion 9 ORM to generate value objects and gateways in CF, and how those can be translated into AS3 classes in Flex.

Neil Trevett of NVIDIA shows how Flash Player 10.1 enables smooth HD web video across devices, including inexpensive netbooks powered by NVIDIA's next-generation ION GPU.

Yoshihiro Shindou covers some of the latest topics and developments covering Flash Professional CS5, Flash Player 10.1 and ActionScript 3. English subtitles are included via closed captioning.

Chet explains how scaling artifacts can sometimes distort the visuals when using the 3D capabilities of Flex and the Flash Player, and how you can avoid these problems.

Ryan Stewart gives us a look at what's new and on the horizon with the Flash Platform

Hear an overview of Flash Builder 4: including a simple REST style call to retrieve and display XML, a SOAP based Web Service client, a simple PHP client, advanced PHP client with data paging enabled, and much more.

Explore how to use (and reuse) custom, reusable components in Flash and Flex projects so that they are easy for developers to implement and simple for designers to skin, allowing both sides to get what they want.

Nate Beck from Universal Mind takes you through the basics of game development on the Flash Platform. From setting up development environments to the basics of game development using the open source PushButton game engine.

HTML is making major strides towards being a worthy competitor for Flash. Jeff Croft and a panel of experts discuss its advantages, disadvantages, and where the two stand in terms of device compatibility and interoperability.

Former Adobe Technical Evangelist Ted Patrick uses Flash Builder to develop and deploy an Adobe AIR application to his Android-powered smartphone.

See how you can use Flash Professional to develop and deploy an Adobe AIR application to an Android-powered smartphone.

Learn how Full Sail University is using the Adobe Flash Platform to instruct students how to create Rich Internet Applications that access APIs and Web Services. Bill Bain explains how they use the Adobe Flash Platform along with design and development methods to teach students to design, build, and deploy their own RIAs. Examples are shown of how students implement the Flash Platform, including the Flash and Flash Builder authoring environments along with the Flash Player and AIR runtimes.

Flash Player 10.1 introduces a full, native multi-touch API that allows you to create some amazing applications. In this session Lee Brimelow demonstrates how to build applications using native multi-touch feedback as well as how to use the built-in gesture support for things like scaling and rotating.

Jim Corbett from the Flash Player team discusses some of the changes to Flash Player 10.1 that the team has made to ensure that the player performs well across desktops and devices.

Learn about this new feature in Flash Player 10.1 that gives content creators, developers, and publishers more choice in high quality media delivery while maintaining the reach of the Flash Platform.  HTTP Dynamic Streaming enables leveraging existing caching infrastructures (CDN’s, ISP’s, office caching, home networking) and provides tools to integrate adaptive streaming into encoding workflows.  Come here how you can use this new feature for both live and video on demand plus options for content protection using Flash Access.

Danny Winokur, senior director of business development for the Adobe Flash Platform, walks you through how Flash Player 10.1 allows your content to reach your customers wherever they are.

Join Adobe to learn how the Flash Platform enables content creators to create and deliver content across various screens. From the web, to desktop, to mobile and to consumer electronics devices, Adobe's Flash Platform allows content creators to leverage their investments across screens, enhancing time to market and increasing ROI. Learn how Adobe is extending this platform in to the Digital Home and Mobile spaces in 2010.

Learn how DevelopmentArc used Adobe Flex 4, Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder to create WorkflowLab, a tool that gives people a better understanding of project workflows and how technologies can help the project lifecycle.

Flex developers at Flash Camp in Boston speak out about the exciting new features in Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder).

David Wadhwani, Vice President and GM of Adobe's Platform business, introduces Flex 4, Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder), and the new ColdFusion Builder products.

Dive in to the depths of coding features of Flash Builder 4 with Rob Brambley, an engineer on the Flash Builder team. Learn keyboard shortcuts you'll use every day, how to keep your code beautiful, cool new debugger tricks, hidden commands, and more!

Flash Catalyst Product Manager Doug Winnie demonstrates how interaction designers and UI developers can use Flash Catalyst to build interactive wireframes for Flex applications.

Heidi Williams, Flash Builder Engineering Manager, shows off a bunch of new features from Flash Builder 4, the next version of Adobe’s developer IDE. She covers designer/developer workflows, easy ways to connect your app to data, and new integrated testing tools.

See how Adobe Flash Player 10.1 makes it possible for STV to distribute videos across Flash-enabled mobile devices worldwide.

From gaming sites to mapping apps, Adobe Platform Evangelist Mark Doherty demos a bunch of websites that have been optimized for Flash Player 10.1.

With Flash Player 10.1, AOL Media streamlines production and delivers premium user experiences to mobile devices.

Interview with Motorola Technology Evangelist Christian Kurzke on why Motorola has partnered with Adobe to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Motorola Android based handsets.

Adobe previews BlackBerry app development and designer/developer workflows at the Blackberry Developer Conference, and Serge Jespers follows up with attendees to get reactions.

Cameron Church demos the Brightcove Mobile Experience and explains how Flash Player 10.1 expands Brightcove's reach to smart phone users.

Ismael Nafría of La Vanguardia was thrilled to hear that the Spanish daily newspaper would soon be able to provide video content to smartphone users with Flash Player 10.1.

At Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA showcases Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR on Tegra-powered tablet device. See a slick new digital magazine experience based on WIRED magazine, powered by Adobe AIR.

Adrian Ludwig demos various games from Armor Games and Miniclip.com with Flash Player 10.1 on Palm webOS using the Palm Pre.

Adrian Ludwig demos video and animation on the BBC, The New York Times, and Angry Alien websites on Android using the Motorola Droid.

Adrian Ludwig demos an early version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One, the new Google branded phone.

Kevin Lynch demos multi-touch and "gestures" capabilities on the HP TouchSmart using Adobe AIR 2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.

Adrian Ludwig from Adobe demos Google Finance on Microsoft Windows Mobile on the Toshiba TG01 smartphone using Flash Player 10.1.

Adrian Ludwig from Adobe demos various websites with Flash Player 10.1 on Palm webOS using the Palm Pre.