Adobe Flash 10.1 for Android 2.1 First Half of 2010

DJ Brady | Feb 09, 2010 | 0 comments

Adobe is pressing forward with Flash 10.1 for Android devices as well as WebOS, & Windows Mobile. Sorry iPhone/iPad. As far as Android is concerned, Flash 10.1 will only work with the 2.1 O/S, which means only Droid and the Nexus One users can enjoy Flash content in their web browsers, unless you are using a custom Android ROM. A video is available from Adobe on Youtube, demoing some of Nexus One’s flash skillz.

Adobe also offered a quick retort to the Flash Vs. HTML5 battles. Matt over at Gizmodo candidly reports:

Lastly, Adobe would like you to know that this whole Adobe vs. HTML5 thing is silly, since they totally support HTML5, like all web standards. They lovethem some web standards, they say. But! They would also like you to note that HTML5 standardization is years away, and Flash works right now. And the reason you notice crappier performance on the Mac is sorta the Mac’s fault, they say, because they need more access to APIs and they get half-assed crash reports. Plus, Adobe claims, apps tend to run faster in Windows than OS X generally, because performance is about 20 percent worse using OS X’s GCC compiler, not to mention performance varies even within an OS, since Flash runs 20 percent faster in IE8 than Firefox, for instance. Either way, performance will be better on Mac with Flash 10.1, since it’s shifting over to using CoreAnimation.

Only the Nexus One uses a 1Ghz snapdragon CPU thus far, so it will be interesting to see how Flash performs on it, as well as the weaker devices, hardware-wise.

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DJ Brady has been in the industry for over 15 years. Due to being rather OCD about research into every nook and cranny of the latest tech, DJ is full of bizarre knowledge that may or may not be relevant to, well, anything. He has attended CES, E3 and GDC (upcoming) trade shows for years. Once upon a time he managed a local overseas importing video game shop, eventually a Gamestop, and at another time wrote for an insider trade magazine called "The VideoGame Advisor". You can contact him at Djbrady@mobilelocalsocial.com and on Twitter @ZenInsight (he comments here under this name too)

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