HARMAN’S SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR ADOBE® FLASH® PLAYER
Flash Player is installed on hundreds of millions of systems. However, effective end of 2020, Adobe announced the end of Flash Player support and hence this will not be available for download from their website, and browser vendors will update their browsers to remove the Flash Player.
However, several companies have significant Flex and Flash-based applications currently in use, either for internal access by employees or as customer-facing applications. HARMAN's exclusive agreement with Adobe to provide extended licensing and support agreements for enterprise Flash Player means that companies can be offered a further time for migrating their Flash-based application to HTML/JavaScript solutions. HARMAN will offer support and security updates to Adobe Flash Player and can provide solutions until the end of 2023 and beyond.
Apart from enterprise support for the Flash Player, HARMAN also now supports Adobe AIR® SDK which can be used to package and deploy applications that are purely based on SWF content, and is widely used for cross-platform applications and games. See
https://airsdk.harman.com for more details.
PACKAGED BROWSER SOLUTION
Where enterprise applications are a mixture of web (HTML/JavaScript) and Flash (or Flex) content, AIR is unlikely to provide full capabilities and so HARMAN is offering the “Packaged Browser" solution as a customised software product that can be licensed for use beyond end of 2020 and allows an existing Flash-based web application to continue working like before.
The “Packaged Browser" is essentially an application that wraps up a browser engine along with the Flash Player and is locked to your web-based Flash application taking on appropriate branding. It is deployed as a separate application, so it needs to be installed by an end user and accessed as a desktop application. It is like a browser tab without the navigational UI and with a Flash Player isolated from the rest of the system.
This application works by loading in the appropriate browser engine and directing this to the predefined URL that hosts the web-based application. The browser engine then loads the custom version of the Flash Player as provided under license by HARMAN. The web-based application is then displayed as if it were running in a normal web page.
ADOBE SOLUTIONS FOR MOBILE AND DESKTOP PLATFORMS
HARMAN provides support on behalf of Adobe® for the Adobe AIR® software and the AIR SDK, and extended support for Adobe Flash® Player for enterprise customers. HARMAN's offerings also include consultancy, support and migration services for companies looking to move their applications away from Flash technologies over to HTML5 via solutions such as Angular, Apache Royale and other JavaScript based frameworks.
For the AIR SDK, please visit our dedicated website at
https://airsdk.harman.com
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Adobe Flash Player will no longer be supported by Adobe or by any standard browsers beyond 2020. However, if the enterprise customers require Flash Player, then HARMAN will be able to offer them a solution that combines the regular Flash Player with customer’s SWF application. This will allow for a useful stop-gap for existing applications to continue to be used with little or no modifications, whilst long term plans for migration away from the Flash content are put into action.
HARMAN also offers alternative deployment and licensing models for Flash Player, for companies wishing to embed Flash Player into their own hardware or software products.