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Flash Player 10.1 on Motorola Droid and Motorola Backflip
Posted by Mark Doherty in Android, Flash Player on January 7, 2010
The latest in our series of Flash Player 10.1 video demos comes hot on the heels of Motorola’s announcement of the Backflip, Droid and it’s Milestone variant.
You will remember that at MAX 2009 we showed a disguised Android device, previously unannounced, running Flash Player 10.1. That was in fact the Droid, and with our continued partnership with Motorola and Google it’s great to see Flash Player 10.1 start to filter through the platform. From a developer perspective, this is a good indicator that we’re now able to bring Flash to devices by platform; in this case Android 2.x.
In his video demo, Adrian shows the New York Times website which is now able to detect these Android devices and provide a more complete web experience including video, images and animations which until now have only been suited to the desktop.
Most news and entertainment sites today are using Flash to playback their video content, engaging with their audiences using rich media throughout their sites.
The award winning BBC News site is also shown in this video, and interestingly shows some nice device detection from the BBC whereby highly optimized video is sent across the web as they detect lower bandwidths using the Flash Media Server.
As with our other videos, these are teasers to give you some idea of the wide scope of devices including WebOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Linux that will be able to run Flash Player 10.1 later this year.
Enjoy..
Google joins the Open Screen Project
Posted by Mark Doherty in Adobe MAX, Android, Devices, Flash Player, Industry News on October 5, 2009
Recently you probably noticed that I’ve been working on Android a little, and for good reason of course. Though it would be easy to focus this post on Android, let’s just look at some of the places where Google use Flash today.
- Youtube
- Google Maps
- Site Search
- Web Search
- Chrome / OS
So you see Flash is everywhere at Google and we’ve been working together for years to build upon this relationship. Google joining the Open Screen Project may seem like a matter of course given our demo’s last year and given their investments in the Flash Platform.
In the past few months we’ve seen stellar device launches from HTC and Motorola using Android. Those of you with beady eyes will also have spotted others from Sony Ericsson and “others” coming down the pipe soon.
I want ALL of them, but might stick to the Hero for now.
Oh, in case they’re watching. Dear HTC, please fix the SSL certificates for Exchange email eh?
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