Great Features Of Flash 11

By Author: Marvin Cole
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The latest version of Flash,i.e Flash player 11, has a lot of cool features. Features which can help build fabulous applications and which make working easy and convenient as well. Hire flash developers India from Mindfire, it's team has people who have good expertise in all the latest features and have developed applications for clients using these features.

Below I have listed down the list of features which were new in the latest release (source Adobe website).
Concurrency (ActionScript workers)
Developers can create more responsive content by offloading tasks (high-latency operations and long-running computations) to background "workers" that run concurrently to leverage more machine resources.

Webcam support for StageVideo
Utilize GPU acceleration to render webcam video streams with better performance.

Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering
Explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe, which provides low-level stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps.

Native 64-bit support
Flash Player can now take ...
... advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux®, Mac OS, and Windows®.

Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
Protect streaming video across devices without the complexity of a license server.

Multi-threaded video decoding
Deliver live streaming and real-time interactive video with improved playback performance and increased frame rates of high bit rate content running on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

Enhanced mouse controls and relative coordinates
Create immersive, panoramic games for new classes of content, including first-person games that take advantage of infinite scrolling, mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, and right- and middle-click events.

Secure random number generator
Developers can now take advantage of cryptographically secure random number generation to build more secure algorithms and protocols.

JPEG-XR support
Support for the JPEG-XR advanced image compression standard (International Standard ISO/IEC 29199-2) provides more efficient compression than JPEG, enables both lossy and lossless compression support, and adds support for alpha channel transparency.

High-efficiency SWF compression support
Take advantage of LZMA compression to reduce SWF file sizes by up to 40%, enabling users to benefit from richer experiences with shorter download times and reduced bandwidth consumption.

New removeChildren API
DisplayObjectContainer now implements a removeChildren API allowing developers to quickly remove all of a container’s children using a single API call.

New MovieClip property
Take advantage of the new MovieClip.isPlaying property, which returns the MovieClip's current playing state.

Native text input UI (mobile)
Mobile apps can now take advantage of the native text input controls on Android, BlackBerry Tablet, and iOS operating systems, including platform-specific user interaction behaviors such as magnification and text selection.

At Mindfire Flash Application Development has been going on for more than 6 years now and we have good exposure to all earlier versions as well as the new features of the latest version. We have one of the best flash development teams in India. We have built applications for varied industries like Social media applications, Elearning industry, Games etc.

To know more about our expertise in flash application development and to hire flash developers, please contact us at sales [at] mindfiresolutions [dot] com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.