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What is Flashdevelop?

FlashDevelop offers first class support for ActionScript (2 & 3) and Haxe development. Great completion & code generation, projects compilation & debugging, plenty of project templates, SWF/SWC exploration etc. FlashDevelop is also a great web development IDE with source-control support (svn, git, mercurial), tasks, snippets, XML/HTML completion and zen-coding for HTML.

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FlashDevelop offers first class support for ActionScript (2 & 3) and Haxe development. Great completion & code generation, projects compilation & debugging, plenty of project templates, SWF/SWC exploration etc. FlashDevelop is also a great web development IDE with source-control support (svn, git, mercurial), tasks, snippets, XML/HTML completion and zen-coding for HTML.


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3.5 out of 5
"Great piece of software to have for any Flash or Adobe developers not using a Mac!"
I would feel that this is a must have piece of software to have in your arsenal if you are an Adobe developer using Windows as an OS. It is a very...
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Andrew Y.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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""Fundamental for any Flash/AIR/Haxe/OpenFL engineers utilizing a Windows Environment""
FlashDevelop is an absolute necessity have for anybody creating Flash and Adobe AIR programming. Code consummation speed by a long shot is the quic...
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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

- It is free

- It is open source

- It allows you to program flash components

- Preview flash components Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

It is a tool that is not updated frequently and is less easy to use than other similar payment tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows you to program flash components Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

Much more robust IDE than Adobe Flash Professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

Not quite as enjoyable of an experience as using other more user-friendly IDEs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have written ActionScript in Adobe Flash Professional and it just isn't an effective IDE. FlashDevelop includes many features that Flash Professional does not, even basic things like searching a whole project or refactoring. It's not the best IDE that I have used in my career but for simple ActionScript development it gets the job done comfortably, which cannot be said about Adobe's offering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

Usablity is the key and this tool is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

No Dislikes. Comparable very good tool . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

using it for Game development. User friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

One tool that helps the development of Adobe Flash websites, web applications, desktop applications and video games. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

Haven't found an issue with using it yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

One tool that works for many issues that developers face with creating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

Bandwidth efficient for multimedia content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

Slow performance is more annoying thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

Application design and front end Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

FlashDevelop is a great light-weight tool for developing in ActionScript, it makes joint development easy and is very flexible for different project types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

The only thing I find myself disliking about FlashDevelop is not being able to figure out all the customization for code style/layout. Somehow, no matter what settings I tweak, the auto layout is never what I want, so I only use it sparingly and then have to adjust.

I have also heard complaints about it not working on Mac, but I never work on a Mac so cannot verify. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Flashdevelop:

If your developers will all have access to development on Windows machines, I highly recommend it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use FlashDevelop across the company, for developing our AS3 projects. It's flexible and extremely useful. Having a lightweight Flash development tool is key in being productive as a Flash developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

We all know that Flash has been modified as a danger due to all it's security issues, but you can't argue as a software developer on how elegant ActionScript 3 is, at least that's my opinion.

The fact that you can get a free IDE to work in Flash, that is compatible with Adobe Flash and Adobe FLEX projects, that it has it's own package manager to download debug tools, compilers, additional packages and more is just awesome.

It's free, it's constantly maintained and updated, has great support, tons of documentation and you can keep working in ActionScript 3, no matter what happened with Flash and with the new HTML5 technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

This tool runs over Java so sometimes it can literally eat all your RAM memory.

Also, it doesn't have as many plugins compared to other IDEs for similar technologies like PHPStorm, WebStorm vs Eclipse, but I believe that's because not many developers are still working with ActionScript 3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Flashdevelop:

Not much. If you are a software developer, you must have used some IDEs before like Eclipse vs PHPStorm or WebStorm, so you will be just fine.

It's very friendly since it has its own package manager so you won't have to mess with the path or complicated installations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have done several simulations with ActionScript 3 since the Flash technology is great for visual stuff, plus my knowledge and experience as a software developer and with Flash made it a good choice for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

I like it because It is a very lightweight IDE, it can work in diferent PC without incovenient. You can create several kinds of project like AS3, Adobe AIR, Haxe and even PHP.

I love its shortcuts they are life saver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

I should have an auto update option for adobe air sdk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Flashdevelop:

If you come for a Visual Studio enviroment, this is almost the same, you will loved as mucha I do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allow us to organize our projects in more elegant way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

Amazing IDE and easy to use straight out of download

Code snippets that speed up coding

Very intelligent debugger with the implementation of using Flash CS6 and / or Flash Player within FlashDevelop

Very good plugins to use like Flex PMD (a little picky but good for holding coding conventions

Very good online resource and extensive library. Great documentation and Wiki. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

No further support for some of its plugins. (Flex PMD, FlexUnit, etc)

Tedious to setup with FlashCS6 (Flex Builder is seamless)

Making folder structures on the fly is a pain within the program. Learn from Microsoft Visual Studios.

FlashDevelop should include automatically a PMD, a Unit Tester, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Flashdevelop:

Similar to FlexBuilder and Visual Studios, this is a great IDE to use for coding in AS3 and other flash languages from previous versions. I would like to mention that to take full advantage of this application, look into some of the plugins and potentially external libraries like greensocket or Starling for additional usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

Implementing and creating new software applications in AS3 and possibly HTML5 in the near future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flashdevelop?

I have used Flashdevelop for more than three years now. It is a very powerful tool in elearning. The good thing about flash is that, it can be used by both a designer and a developer at the same time. The tool is great at building games too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flashdevelop?

Sometimes things become complicated in Flash develop especially if someone is just a beginner. it would be a better idea if there is more tutorials than now for fresh developers to get an insight on how to get things done in flashdevelop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flashdevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it for developing games, and interactive elearning content. The tool is great at collaboration and trusted among many developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.