The power of the Flash Platform part 5 – Multi-touch

Posted by on May 4, 2010 in AIR, Flash Platform, Flash Player | 3 comments

Multi-touch is only just gaining grounds in the tech world. While it’s pretty common on mobile devices these days, you don’t yet see a lot of multi-touch devices in people’s homes. Sure… A lot of trackpads on laptops also support multi-touch these days but they usually only support the common gestures for zoom and rotate.

One of the key advantages of the Flash Platform is that Adobe can innovate and add new features rapidly. As Flash Player is one of the fastest adopted technologies on the web developers can use those new features in their applications almost instantly. Multi-touch is a very good example. When Adobe saw the uprise of multi-touch technology, it immediately started working on adding multi-touch capabilities to both Flash Player 10.1 and the AIR 2 runtimes. With public betas being available to developers, they can immediately start to experiment with these new features and start adding them to their applications.

That said… Developers have been doing multi-touch applications with Flash for years thanks to community driven ActionScript libraries. Check out these videos to get an idea on what people are doing/have been doing with multi-touch and Flash.

There are lots of examples like these out there… Feel free to leave a link in the comments to your multi-touch Flash application.

Flash on!

Other posts in this series:
The power of the Flash Platform Part 1
The power of the Flash Platform Part 2 – Augmented reality
The power of the Flash Platform Part 3 – Video
The Power of the Flash Platform Part 4 – Online gaming

3 Comments

  1. KolNedra
    May 7, 2010

    Nice collection of multitouch examples.

    Let’s see HTML5 do something simular :p

  2. Don Kerr
    May 12, 2010

    Great post Serge! I’ve been a few examples of more Flex/Air Multi-touch apps with some Google Maps/Earth features too.

    http://www.youtube.com/fusioneering
    See the NASA example and the Oil Tank example.

    Don Kerr
    Houston Space City Adobe User Group
    http://www.spacecityaug.com

  3. Seth Sandler
    August 13, 2010

    Here’s an example of the flash multitouch audio OS (Audiotouch OS) I built about 2 years ago. Most of the applications can be downloaded in the download section of my site. They’re not currently written for native touch (since they were written before the new API), but I’m hoping to port them over.

    http://sethsandler.com/audiotouch/

    Sorry the video is a bit poor. Hopefully I’ll get a better example up soon!