Understanding the Animate Custom Platform SDK

In this section, we'll look at the Animate CPSDK and see how to install extensions from Adobe Exchange through the Creative Cloud desktop application.

Back before Adobe decided to re-brand Flash Professional to Animate, they were working under the hood to establish the software as a completely platform-agnostic solution for motion and interactivity. One team cannot target all platforms that exist in the world, so they came up with the solution to allow anyone to add target platforms to Animate through the use of the CPSDK.

Visit the adobe.io website and go to the Animate section (https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/animate.html), and you'll be able to view all of the ways to extend Animate:

Figure 14.17 – The adobe.io resources for Animate

You can find full documentation along with the actual CPSDK, which can be downloaded and put to use to implement a custom document type and publish...