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Launching m.flash.com & BBC iPlayer for Android


m.flash.com

We have released Flash Player 10.1 to our OEM partners in what has been an incredible engineering effort working with our Open Screen Project partners.  One of the problems with the Flash Player generally, is that it is invisbile.  As a user its so easy to forget that a single web technology is powering billions of videos, games, Rich Internet Applications and now desktop applications with AIR.

So we have been working with the worlds leading content providers, alongside our OEM partners to create experiences that shine.  With that, we’ve aggregated these together over at m.flash.com so that you can enjoy them on your mobile phones.  I think it will really help to sell those mobile and device projects that we’ve all been thinking about.

iPlayer

If I’m honest, this is the one that I have been most excited about, and this week the BBC launched iPlayer 3.0. with support for Android Froyo devices and Flash Player 10.1.  As I live in the UK, and I know many of you don’t, let’s take a look at just how huge the service has become.

Simply put, iPlayer is like Hulu for BBC content providing video on demand services for UK citizens.  Using the service we can watch BBC content that we’ve missed, across 10 TV channels and 11 radio stations.  On top of that, we can also watch TV live using iPlayer online to work around poor terrestrial signals – or in my case, a tiny television :-)

In perspective (BBC iStats for May 2010)

  • 130m radio and television streams watched, across PCs, consoles and mobile phones
  • 13m live streams were broadcast, including a huge amount of live radio proportional to video streams
  • 6.5m video/radio requests from mobile phones
  • Peak usage tracks linear broadcast usage almost exactly – the shape of things to come :-)

Currently the iPlayer is available on the Nintendo Wii, PS3, Mac, Windows, Linux, Symbian, Windows Mobile and iOS devices.  As you would expect, when it comes to scaling the iPlayer platform across all of these devices, the task is huge.  That’s where Flash comes in, if you look at the list above (and more still) we have demonstrated Flash on all of them.

When you test your Flash-enabled site, why not let me know?  Let’s add it to m.flash.com :-)

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  • ii

    Mark –

    How will drop down menus, that depend on hover to access submenu links, work on mobile devices? Will it reveal drop down menu when button is clicked?

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  • http://www.flashmobileblog.com Mark Doherty

    Some of them won’t work correctly, although the events will fire. You may find that the menu disappears before you can select an item. So it’ll be a little effort to make sure that things work as expected.

  • ii

    Hmmm…trying to figure out why exactly it would disappear if a menu is supposed to come down on rollOver and disappear only when a mouse event is registered outside the allotted menu area…

    I know that curently on mobile devices, java-programmed dropdown menus, the touch on that button triggers the drop down, and it remains there until you click elsewhere or on one of the sub buttons…is this not how the Flash is going to work?

    Thanks in advance!

  • Steve Murray

    I have a HTC Legend, which may or may not get the new Android OS.
    Will I be able to get the new Flash player – and thus the BBC IPlayer – installed on my phone if the OS is not updated?

  • http://www.flashmobileblog.com Mark Doherty

    Hi Steve, The HTC legend comes with Flash Lite 4 installed so you may want to verify if iPlayer works using your browser. There is nothing to install with regards to iPlayer, you simply point your browser to the BBC site.

  • http://www.flashmobileblog.com Mark Doherty

    Confirmed, the Legend will get Froyo :-)

  • Steve Murray

    Thanks Mark.

  • Piers

    G’Day Mark,

    Loving the look of flash at the moment.

    Just a courtesy message to let you know that Avast! anti-virus detected a trojan threat from your website just a moment ago. The exact threat was from;

    www dot flashmobileblog dot com /wp-content/themes/fusion/favicon.ico|>{gzip}

    I just thought you may want to look into it.

    Cheers mate,

    Piers

  • http://www.flashmobileblog.com Mark Doherty

    Hi Piers, thanks for letting me know. Unfortunately I’m riddled with something and I’ve been unable to find the source for quite some time. It seems to relate to file urls and how those are resolved, yet only with the url is an invalid path.

    Tips welcome :-)

  • Mongakaran

    will samsung galaxy ace get flash ever? please

  • B_sparks

    Hi, all sounds great but i can’t get bbciplayer on my A1CS X220 10.2″, ANDROID 2.2 cah you help thanks brian