Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (formerly called  Flash and Shockwave Flash) is a used for creating Flash displays text,  to provide animations, video games and applications. It allows streaming of and can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera input.

Flash graphics and animation are designed using a variety of Flash editing software, such as  any text editor when used with the  SDK. Content may be viewed by end-users using falish plyar (for web browsers),  (for desktop or mobile apps) or third-party players such as  (for video games).  enables end-users to view Flash content using , and is supported on enabled viewing Flash content on older  but has been discontinued and superseded by 

The  programming language allows creation of interactive animations, video games, web applications, desktop applications and mobile applications. Flash software can be developed using an IDE such as  enables full-featured desktop and mobile applications to be developed with Flash, and published for  OS X, google andorid, and IOS

Flash is frequently used to display multimedia content on and Flash-enabled software. However, after the 2000s, the usage of Flash on Web sites has declined; as of 2015, Flash is primarily used to build  for mobile devices with Adobe AIR.

In the early 2000s,Flash was widely installed on  and was commonly used to display interactive  and to playback video and audio content. In 2005,YOUTUBE was founded by former PayPal employees, and it used Flash Player as a means to display compressed video content on the web.

Between 2000 and 2010,Swan, numerous businesses used Flash-based websites to launch new products, or to create interactive company portals. Notable users include  and  After Adobe introduced hardware-accelerated 3D for Flash  Flash websites saw a growth of 3D content for product demonstrations and virtual tours.

In 2007, YouTube offered videos in format to support the which did not support Flash Player.After a  Adobe stopped developing Flash Player for Mobile, focussing its efforts on applications and animation. In 2015,  introduced to convert Flash animation to a tool Google would use to automatically convert Flash web ads for mobile devices.In 2015, YouTube switched to HTML5 technology on all devices, however it will preserve the Flash-based video player for older web browsers.