Software Update: Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.185 & AIR 19.0.0.190

Adobe has released version 19 of Flash Player and the Integrated Runtime. With Adobe Flash Player it is possible to play Flash content, mainly swf files, on the computer. Popular video sites such as YouTube and Google Video, among others, offer their visitors the opportunity to play videos with the stand-alone Flash Player. Adobe AIR provides a cross-platform environment for developing and playing so-called Rich Internet Applications. The release notes for this release can be found below.

New Features

• iOS Concurrency
  Our popular desktop and Android feature, AIR Workers, is now making its debut on iOS! We have added support on iOS devices so that you will be able to execute code in the background without interrupting your application’s main code. Your UI will remain responsive, enhancing the user experience.
  Your implementation will remain the same between iOS and Android, except for differences in swf loading and passing byte arrays to the worker.
  Because dynamically loading a ‘remote’ SWF that contains ActionScript code will not work in iOS, remote swf’s must be passed to workers as stripped swf’s.
  Embedding SWFs (which have ABC code) using the [Embed] tag will not work on iOS.
  Each additional worker is created from a separate swf. To create a new instance of the Worker class, pass a ByteArray with the bytes of the background worker’s swf as an argument to the WorkerDomain class’s createWorker()method.
• Improved Stage3D Error Messages
  We’ve added new Stage3D error codes to provide developers with additional debugging and error information.
  This feature is available for both Flash Player and AIR. Swf’s compiled with a version less than 30 will throw the old error code messages. Swf’s compiled with version 30 and above will throw the new error code messages.
  We have also updated the AS3 documentation for various Stage3D APIs to provide more information about the reasons for the errors thrown.
• New insertAt() and removeAt() Vector and Array APIs
  With Flash Player and AIR 19, we have introduced two new APIs for element insertion or removal in Vector and Arrays.
  Please use swf-version 30 or greater and namespace 19.0 or greater to access the new APIs.
• Added ability to disable browser zoom factor scaling via HTML
  In Flash Player 15, we added code to improve the resolution of Stage3D content when the browser’s zoom factor (BZF) was changed.
  This was extended to the PPAPI and Windows XP/Vista/7 Active X control in Flash Player 18. In Flash Player 19, we’re providing the developer the ability to enabled or disabled this functionality.
  BZF is turned on by default but can now be turn on/off by setting a new attribute browserzoom to two possible values ​​scale/noscale in HTML EMBEDSWF and OBJECT tag.

Fixed Issues

Flash Player

• Black Screen is observed when second SWF is loaded[4021075]
• UI elements, text, and videos get displayed at incorrect sizes when using IE[4000438]
• Problem loading new SWFs onto stage using AS2.0 loadMovieNum [4027300]
• Crossbridge project crashing Flash Player [4041472]
• Performance lag is observed in application that implements Shine MP3 encoder library on MAC [4020998]
• Multiple security and functional fixes

AIR

• [Windows] Graphical glitches when rotating an element inside of a sprite [3949851]
• [iOS] SOFT_KEYBOARD_ACTIVATING event is not fired when soft keyboard is up and device orientation is changed (4014835)
• [Android]Application hangs and crashes after some time on playing rtmp video on some devices (4018065)
• [iOS] Application orientation changes from portrait to landscape , if device is rotated to landscape while browsing gallery (3993869)
• [iOS9 Beta 3] Incorrect launch image is displayed on iPad for landscape applications. (4018599)
• [Android ] Georgian chars are not getting displayed on Android L onwards. (4028503)
• Multiple security and functional fixes