Thursday, April 19, 2012

[Flash] -swf-version meaning

It's getting more and more versions! I do have no brain left to remember them all, so here we go!

SWF Version

Compiler Option Flash Player Version AIR version
-swf-version=9 9.0.115.0 N/A
-swf-version=10 10.0, 10.1 1.5, 2.0
-swf-version=11 10.2 2.6
-swf-version=12 10.3 2.7
-swf-version=13 11.0 3
-swf-version=14 11.1 3.1
-swf-version=15 11.2 3.2
-swf-version=16 11.3 3.3
-swf-version=17 11.4 3.4
-swf-version=18 11.5 3.5
-swf-version=19 11.6 3.6
-swf-version=20 11.7 3.7
-swf-version=21 11.8 3.8
-swf-version=22 11.9 3.9
-swf-version=23 12 4
-swf-version=24 13 13
-swf-version=25 14 14
-swf-version=26 15 15
-swf-version=27 16 16
-swf-version=28 17 17
-swf-version=29 18 18

*update AIR versioning from http://www.bytearray.org/?p=4848

AIR SDK Path

  • MacOS : /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4.7/eclipse/plugins/com.adobe.flash.compiler_4.7.0.348297/AIRSDK
  • Windows
  1. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 (64Bit)\eclipse\plugins\com.adobe.flash.compiler_4.7.0.349722\AIRSDK\
  2. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 (64 Bit)\sdks

Features

Release notes

Download Flash Player

Download AIR

Labs

Document

Important note

  • Alchemy experiments is dead : Starting with Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2, content targeting Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 (i.e., content using SWF version 13 and above) will not support the experimental Alchemy prototype. Existing Alchemy experiments targeting Flash Player 10.x and AIR 2.x are unaffected…read more
  • Premium Features : Starting with Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2, by taking advantage of two features in combination: 
    • Stage3D hardware acceleration (Stage3D.request3DContext)
    • Domain memory (ApplicationDomain.domainMemory)
    premium features available free of charge for content published prior to August 1. Starting August 1, these features will be available for published content with a license, and there will be no charge for the first $50K in application revenues. The use of premium features within Adobe AIR, including for mobile applications for iOS and Android, will be royalty free…read more
    [UPDATE 2012/07] Deadline Extend read more
    [UPDATE 2013/01/30] No need to pay anymore (yeah!) read more
  • more to come ;p

2 comments:

Intoxopox said...

Greets. Alchemy has become FlasCC.
http://blogs.adobe.com/flascc/

Anonymous said...

Nice summary.