Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash player is the software in use for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player is freely available as a plug-in for recent versions of web browsers (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari) on selected platforms. Google Chrome integrated the player into the distribution. Each version of the plugin is backwards-compatible.

Flash Player is used internally by the Adobe Integrated Run time (Adobe AIR), in order to provide a cross-platform run time environment for desktop applications and mobile applications. The run time supports installable applications on Windows, Linux, Mac OS and some mobile operating systems such as Ios and Android. Flash applications must specifically be built for the Adobe AIR run time in order to utilize additional features provided, such as file system integration, native client extensions, native window/screen integration, task bar/dock integration, and hardware integration with connected Accelerometer and GPS devices.