Adobe has been staying up to date with their Android apps for some time now with almost weekly updates to flash for a while there. Now they have released updates to Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR bringing them to version 11 and 3 respectively. These updated versions are available to anyone with Android 2.2 Froyo or higher on the Android Market.

Flash Player 11 new Features:

• Native 64-bit Support (Flash Player desktop)
• Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding (new for Flash Player)
• TLS Secure Sockets Support (new for Flash Player)

Adobe AIR 3 new Features:

• Native Extensions
• Captive Runtime Support
• Stage Video Hardware Acceleration (AIR Mobile)
• H.264/AAC Playback Support (AIR for iOS)
• Front-facing Camera Support (AIR for Android)
• Background Audio Playback Support (AIR for iOS)
• Device Speaker Control for Mobile (AIR for iOS & Android)
• 16 and 32-bit color depth
• Game Controller API (AIR TV)

New Features Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 have in common:

• Stage 3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering (Player & AIR desktop + AIR for TV)
• Flash Access Content Protection Support for Mobile
• Flash Access Content Protection Enhancements
• Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
• NetStream.dispose()
• H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras (desktop)
• JPEG-XR support
• Enhanced high resolution bitmap support
• High efficiency SWF compression support
• G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony
• Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support
• Garbage Collection Advice
• Cubic Bezier Curves
• Secure Random Number Generator
• Socket Progress Events
• DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren and MovieClip.isPlaying