Filed under: Adobe, Mobile, Android
Adobe announces AIR, Flash for smartphones
by Brad Linder Feb 15th 2010 at 9:26AM
We've been expecting to see Flash Player 10.1 for a while, but it looks like it should be coming pretty soon. A beta version has already been made available to mobile developers and content providers. Adobe says it should be available to the general public in the first half of the year. While the player is initially coming to Android, support for BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile are also on the way.
Adobe AIR is something else altogether. The platform currently allows developers to write applications that can run on Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops. By expanding AIR to mobile devices, developers will basically be able to write applications in Flash that can run on all sorts of devices, which is pretty awesome news for programmers looking to maximize their reach, but also for users looking to run the same applications on a number of different devices.
Want to create an RSS reader, calendar, or video game application for Palm, Windows Mobile, and Android devices without having to rewrite the code for each platform? There'll be an app for that.
Like Flash, AIR will be available first on Android devices. For a demo of AIR running on a Motorola Droid, check out the video after the break, courtesy of The Flash Blog.
The Illusionist's Dream is a simple platformer; you play as a magician who needs to get through each level by transforming into any number of animals that you encounter along the way.
Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
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James said 5:40PM on 2-15-2010
Haven't they been planning this for years and years and years, with pretty much nothing to show for it?
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saudrapsmann said 10:06PM on 2-16-2010
Given Lifehacker's recent article about how 80% of malware exploits are through Adobe Reader and Acrobat, and the fact that my browser crashes all the time due to Flash, I gotta say I'm not entirely sure I want Flash on a handheld. I don't need my phone or Zune HD crashing :/
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