Posts Tagged Open Screen Project
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?
RIM joins the Open Screen Project
Posted by Mark Doherty in Adobe MAX, Devices, Flash Player, Industry News on October 5, 2009
At Adobe MAX 2009 RIM has become the 19th of the top 20 OEMs to begin work on integrating the Flash Player on their mobile platform. This is a landmark collaboration announcement in our drive to bring the full Internet to mobile phones and devices.
Over the past few years we have seen RIM devices expand out of the business user category to become a consumer platform. Many of my friends now use the Curve for Facebook, messaging and surfing the web and they really love their phones.
That’s my guage on success:
- Do my friends own them?
- Does my mum know what a Blackberry is?
For developers the Blackberry platform currently provides a Java API and framework for easy application development. There’s no arguing that the Java runtime has enabled some great applications, and as the App World expands we’ve seen some nice content start to come in.
Our OEM engagements seem much more rounded with RIM joining, a more complete story if you will.
FITC Mobile – Toronto (with Sneaks ;-)
Posted by Mark Doherty in Conference, Flash Lite, Industry News, Mobile Content on July 29, 2009
This September I’m going to travel to Toronto to present at the FITC conference. It’s set to be an exciting show with all of the major mobile platforms being supported including Android, Palm, Windows Mobile, Flash Lite, Blackberry, OpenGL ES and of course iPhone development. There’s even going to be a session on SMS Applications, something that is probably a lot more interesting that you’d think!
Flash Sessions
- Martin Barclay & Robert Burdick from Nokia: Develop and Distribute for Nokia smartphones
- Scott Janousek: Practical Design and Development with Flash on Mobile Devices
- Scott Janousek: Leveraging Accelerometers on Mobile Devices
- Thomas Joos: Tips and Tricks for Flash Lite Optimization
- Weyert de Boer: Android for Flash Developers
- Mark Doherty: Flash Lite Distribution and the Open Screen Fund
So as you can see there are going to be a number of presentations on Flash topics. In my session I’m going to probably break the rules and just sit and have a chat with everyone. Distribution is a complex topic and one where many misunderstand where money is made.
On top of that I’ll also be showing off sneak peaks, so if you’re in the Toronto area and not coming to Adobe MAX then I suggest you start booking 
Prices are very low at $209 and $89 for students.
Texas Instruments joins the Open Screen Project
Posted by Mark Doherty in on April 2, 2009
Today at CTIA we announced that TI will join the Open Screen Project to help deliver optimised Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® for their OMAP 3 platform targeting mobile phones and MID devices.
TI OMAP is a key platform in the mobile space, these chipsets power many of the worlds leading smartphone platforms including S60, the Palm Pre and the Samsung OMNIA range. It’s also used heavily the Archos platform that I described below enabling the Archos user base an unparalleled experience.
For developers this announcement means that you can expect the Flash Players of the future to work even better with modern devices, enabling you to create richer experiences. We’re constantly shifting to higher and higher resolutions and Flash will have to cope with HD video streams, so it’s essential to work with chipset vendors to ensure that Flash is not just part of the platform, but that it’s designed to work with it from the start.
We expect to release a beta of this new Flash Player later in the summer on many platforms. At the end of 2009 we ship to our Open Screen Project partners, and we expect to see the first devices in early 2010.
We have more of these types of announcements in the works of course 
Adobe MAX 2008 Mobile and Devices Roundup
Posted by Mark Doherty in Conference, Flash Lite, Industry News, Mobile Content on November 21, 2008
I’m here at the airport in San Francisco, shoulders breaking due to the sheer number of phones in my bag. Today I’m carrying about 35 devices that I’ll be using over the next year. They are from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, T-Mobile and Nokia and some of them are more special than others..
There are in fact seven devices in my bag with Flash 10 working in the browser. There’s an Android device from HTC, four HTC Touch Diamonds and two Nokia N85s. You will have already heard that we showed a very early demo of Flash 10 at MAX in San Francisco; its amazing to see the level of excitement from the broader community around this announcement.
Many of you have been asking questions around time lines and technology, so let’s set some expectations:
- This does not spell the end of Flash technology optimized for non-PC devices (called Flash Lite)
- We will not be bringing Flash 10 and AS3 (browser plugin only) to devices until the end of 2009
- When this happens the numbers of devices in market will be low and expensive
- There is a huge amount of work still to be done
- Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile are going to have full web parity with Flash 10.
- iPhone is a closed platform gated by Apple and its up to them.
While we’ve made great progress with Flash 10 for mobile browsing it’s still a long way off. Even when it does arrive we’ll still need to deliver AIR and enable standalone applications, for that we need to address many more devices. As a way to get started early, at MAX San Francisco we announced the Flash Lite Distributable Player private beta program. On mobile devices you can now distribute your applications, games and video content to Open OS mobile devices and install Flash when necessary; just like the desktop. The solution comes in a few pieces:
Create: To create packages effectively you’ll need to update your Adobe Device Central to 2.1. You can then test your applications categorized by screen resolution and platform.
Package: We created the Adobe Mobile Packager Beta to enable you to trigger the download of the latest Flash player for your devices. Using the tool you can follow a simple process and build CAB or SIS files for open distribution.
Distribute: You told us that it was hard to do deals on your own that it would be great if Adobe helped seal the deal. Well we’ve done just that and signed deals with Thumbplay and Zed which includes a standard developer agreement. There will be a large number of devices supported at launch (some 30 devices) and an audience of over 11m users in Italy, Spain and the US. Importantly these are hand-picked high value consumers that browse the web and consume content.
Discover: It was also very important to allow applications to sit side by side with native apps. Customers out there were demanding a catalogue experience, free and open. We created the Adobe AppZone a rich interactive catalog that presents aggregator and partner content. It manages the installation and general management of applications and Flash versions.
Of course no new product would be good without a developer kit to get you up and running. Well this time I decided that 100s of pages of docs was getting a bit tired, so it gives me great pleasure to point you at the all new video tutorial series by Liz Myers. For the past five weeks we’ve been working really hard together to create this series for Adobe TV and I hope we can do more in the future. You’ll find the series broken down into bite-size chunks and hopefully you should be setup in 30mins.
Please spread the word about the Flash Lite Distributable Player, and get signed up here for the private beta.