Adobe Flash goes Mobile big time

Adobe Flash on mobile phones has always seemed fairly anemic. The player didn't support much of what developers were using Flash for and it wasn't available on a lot of platforms that developers cared about. At the Mobile World Congress Adobe announced a series of efforts, amongst them:

1. a new 10.1 player for Android and Palm, with other platforms coming soon.
2. A new compiler/converter for packaging Flash apps up and shipping them on the iPhone and iPad.
3. A new AIR runtime for mobile phones so developers can ship AIR/Flash apps like Tweetdeck or Seesmic directly onto Android or Palm without doing much additional work, if any at all.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• adobe
• flash
• mobile
• android
• palm
• iphone
• ipad
• developer
• technology

[selfhelpguy]

For many years there's been a cloud hanging over Flash and a sort of unspoken assumption that it's on the way out and about to be replaced by something bigger and better. But those sons of a guns at Flash just keep hanging on and proving all us wrong. All those non-Apple smart phone developers must be dancing in the streets every time they hear confirmation that the new iPhones and iPads are not going to have Flash.

[optimysticyet]

when can i use flash on winMO 7?

[rockbandmidi]

@bweazel We wait for all the videos showing hulu, hobnox audiotool, farmville, and all the other 3 things that people always complain about needing flash for. Then, we see a backlash of the disillusioned masses rise up.. between those whose update to froyo never came and never will.. to those who find the mobile web as promised was just anti-hype generated by a dying breed of media designers upset their creations are now irrelavant to such a huge market segment. I think that's what ;)

[bweazel]

Wow. Bad ass public relations. Long live Adobe!

[bweazel]

So what now?

[rockbandmidi]

hilarious.. do a google search for 'flash goes mobile' and you'll see this same tired parade from 2009 and 2008.. Adobe is great at annoucements.. not-so-much at backing them with actual working software products on the devices they promised them for in the end.

[SocialAttraction]

Awesome...

It's very exciting to see mobile web developing..

This will be great for local businesses too..

Thank you for sharing.. :))

[ftekkie]

Great interview by Robert. Good questions and well addressed topics.

[ShaiSoft]

Not a chance to makr 3d smooth apps on Android with Flash!!! too bad :'(

[sys2074]

it will change the way how Apple thinks!