Applications of Flash

Flash is used in making a large variety of applications.Let us investigate in detail.

Flash websites
Most of the Flash animators start with Flash for making flash websites.Flash websites are great compared to the boring HTML websites and offer a lot of interactivity and will be very fun to visit and explore.Flash also allows users to add sound to their animation,which will be great if added to websites.Below are links of few Flash websites you will like.

Newyork
Eco Zoo

Flash Banners
The most popular application that reaches a large audience are flash banners. These banners are mostly used for displaying ads.These ads may also contain small(very small) games. However,banners are also used to display messages.

Flash Games
Online gaming has gained a lot of importance in the recent years and is also a source of revenue for many companies and developers.Most of the online games are made in flash because flash games are less in size and offer a lot of features for the developers.The companies like ivy comptech that offer services for partypoker(an online gambling website famous in countries other than India) also work on Adobe Flash for making games.
If you wish to see the potential of a Flash, Play Governor of Poker by Youda Games
Flash Video
Well,I don't think I have to make a note about Youtube which uses Flash technology for sharing videos world wide.

Glogs
Glogs are similar to blogs.While blogs are popular for text and photo content,glogs are popular for expressive content.A glog is simply a flash application in which you can align images(of your choice),text(many fonts) and also music and videos.If you don't know what a glog is,go and own a glog at Glogster
Apart from glogs,glogster is also a fantastic social networking site.Below is the glog created by some girl.


Flash animation
Flash is also used to create a lot of Fun content on the web.For those who haven't seen the XiaoXiao series,here is an youtube video.



All the animation is created using flash and there is a lot more creation going on.You can also create such matchstick animation on your own if you have Flash.Visit StickPage for more information on match stick animation.

Flash for mobiles
Flash Lite from Adobe, a mobile-optimised version of Flash technology, offers a quick and effective way of building on your existing skills to create mobile content. Flash Lite is supported across all Nokia S60 and most Series 40 devices, and it is widely integrated with Nokia’s mobile WebKit browser.
40 % of the mobile users in the world have access to internet and the number will grow more in future.Mobile applications have a lot of potential to earn revenue.With Flash lite we can create applications that interact with web or Flash games for mobiles.
With Flash lite you can create many mobile applications starting from wallpapers and screensavers to games.If you want to create any mobile application in Flash Lite also have a look at what Nokia says.

A note about Flash:Introduction

Flash is an authoring tool that designers and developers use to create presentations, applications, and other content that enables user interaction. Flash projects can include simple animations, video content, complex presentations, applications, and everything in between. In general, individual pieces of content made with Flash are called applications, even though they might only be a basic animation. You can make media-rich Flash applications by including pictures, sound, video, and special effects.


You can create a large variety of applications in Flash.However,it is mostly used in internet applications.We can create banners for displaying ads or messages with rich media content and very low size.We can also create flash games using the scripting language of Flash called Actionscript.Strictly speaking we use actionscript for controlling the movie clip in banners also.But actonscript is more than that.There are a lot of features in actionscript,some of which we will be covering through out.Apart from banners and games,we can also create some match stick animation for fun.

Flash Lite from Adobe, a mobile-optimised version of Flash technology, offers a quick and effective way of building on your existing skills to create mobile content. Flash Lite is supported across all Nokia S60 and most Series 40 devices, and it is widely integrated with Nokia’s mobile WebKit browser.
Flash also has the Flash Javascript API which allows users to trigger Javascript while the Flash movie is playing.

Flash was a product of macromedia which was later acquired by Adobe.In order to play the Flash content you need to download Adobe Flash player.Always use the latest flash player for improved performance. After generating a flash file using flash software,we emebed it in a page in the same way we embed a jpeg or png.But this content plays and has user interaction.We derive user interaction using actionscript.


Flash always has more to offer than a user can think of.The latest version of Flash is Flash CS4(Creative Suite 4) which supports Actionscript 3.0 and has many more features-like the bone tool,3D tool-than Flash 8 professional.