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Android, Flash 10.1, and battery life
Feb 25th
There has been a lot of talk in the last few days about Nexus Ones running the Desire ROM from Paul at MoDaCo, which includes Flash 10.1. We’ve seen demonstration videos, and lots of speculation about Flash’s drain on the battery. But Adobe caught wind of the hubbub and decided to clear a few things up. First of all, they say the ROM employs an alpha version of Flash Lite, and not Flash 10.1. They also put together a long test video to give us all a better idea of the battery life we can actually expect with the final version of 10.1, and if this demonstration is representative of the final product, we should be able to watch a full movie before the phone croaks. Vid after the break:
Via Engadget
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Adobe focuses on smartphones with Flash
Feb 23rd
Adobe’s been in the news almost every week, in one way or another, over the last few weeks. You’ve heard, right? Adobe’s CTO, Kevin Lynch has certainly heard, and he’s pretty outspoken on the whole thing. He wants to set the record straight in regards to how people look at his company, and think about their product, and he’s got a pretty good strategy to make that happen: show it off. That’s exactly what Adobe did in Barcelona, during Mobile World Congress. They decided to show off to the world just what it was Adobe is planning for the mobile platforms of the future, and they did it all with the help of Google’s Android. While Adobe’s AIR software will be hitting several different phone models, the more specific Flash 10.1 was showcased on a Nexus One, the king of Android phones (currently on the market). Lynch wants to make sure that everyone knows Flash is still here, and with the help of Google, that may just be an option for the mobile industry. Plus, it does well to segregate them from the “i” competition.
via All Things D
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CEOh-Snap: Jobs Calls Flash “Old Technology”, Adobe Calls Apple “Proprietary Lock”
Feb 18th
Valleywag claims “people familiar with the meeting” between Steve Jobs and the Wall Street Journal have told them Apple’s CEO once again dismissed Flash as “old technology”, while Bloomberg News reports on Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen calling Apple a “proprietary lock”.
Jobs apparently repeated claims that Flash is buggy and crashes Macs, is a CPU hog with security holes, would reduced battery life to 1.5 hours, and was basically old technology, something Apple doesn’t spend time on and historically jettisons quickly, like floppy drives, FireWire 400, and even optical drives on the MacBook Air. Switching to H.264 was said to be trivial, though Valleywag points out it’s fairly non-trivial in implementation.
Narayen, commenting on the record, had this to say:
“Considering the amount of content on the Web that uses Flash — not allowing your consumers to access that content isn’t showing off the Web in all its glory. Apple’s business model is more trying to maintain a proprietary lock.”
Since, Open Screen Project or not, Flash is ultimately controlled by Adobe while HTML5 is an open standard, the “proprietary lock” comment is a tad ironic. Narayen, however, also pointed out that Flash 10.1 was the the “middle-ground” solution Jobs himself asked for following the launch of the iPhone — more fully featured than Flash Lite, not as resource intensive as Flash (Full).
The Apple vs. Adobe, iPhone vs. Flash debate has beaten whole heaping herds of horses to death now, so we’ll just ask you this — do comments from the CEOs, on the record or gossipy alike, inform or sway your opinion in any way?
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Adobe Flash and AIR for Android
Feb 16th
Adobe announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that Flash and AIR would be available for the Android platform in the first half of the year as part of a broader effort by the Open Screen Project to bring the software to a vast bevy of phones running the BlackBerry platform, Symbian OS, Palm’s webOS and Windows Mobile. Adobe also released the beta version of Flash 10.1 to developers and content providers worldwide.
My obsession with access to one particular program continues to dominate my take on any news that could possibly be tied to it. I am speaking of the AIR Twitter app, TweetDeck, which I’m hoping will finally be coming to Android.
Whatever happens with TweetDeck, I suspect AIR will open up a Universe of possibilities for social apps. Adobe simply says that it “allows developers to easily create contextual applications that are characterized by their ability to adapt presentation and performance to different application contexts while reusing code for each device or platform.”
Check out videos of Flash and AIR running on Android after the break:
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Via Mashable
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Adobe Says 7 Million iPhone OS Users Tried to Download Flash — Would Hulu App Fix That?
Feb 10th
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that, according to Adobe 7 million iPhone and iPod touch users attempted to download Flash in December, well over the 3 million who tried back in June. We wonder how many of those were for Hulu, and whether rumors of a Hulu app for iPad would change them significantly?
Engadget feels that both Apple and Adobe’s competition (competing smartphone platforms that will soon include Flash 10.1, and competing video and rich-content delivery systems from HTML5 to Silverlight which now streams H.264 to the iPhone) are the only ones who will benefit.
We figure technology might as well, as Flash is forced to make less resource intensive, more security and privacy-friendly plugins and Apple and others are forced to make and push alternatives.
Case in point, Hulu. Techcrunch and 9to5mac hear a a Hulu app might still be in progress and set to launch in March in time for the iPad. Their videos are already H.264 so no conversion is required, but they make money off their advertising, which is entirely Flash-based now, and would need to either be replaced with HTML5 for a web app, or Cocoa touch for a native App Store app.
Either way, we’re still waiting..
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Android News Mix: Gingerbread Edition
Feb 10th
Feeling low on your Android news diet? We’ve got the answer. Three cookie-sized (get it?) pieces of news small enough we can fit them in a single article, but big enough we can’t let them pass.
First up, the next pastry-inspired codename for the Android OS will be Gingerbread, according to a Googler. It is anybody’s guess what name will begin with “H” though.
Next, straight from your favorite science-fiction movie comes this statement from Franz Och, Google’s Head of translation services: “We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time” Yes, apparently in a couple of years we will be able to talk in a language and have a phone say the same thing in another. This will make for even funnier translations. When you ask your Latino neighbor if he wants to hang out and he suddenly punches you in the face, at least you’ll know who to thank for that.
And lastly, if you’re stuck on an Android version lower than 2.1 you have yet another reason to bash your phone’s manufacturer and to buy the phone directly from Google next time. When Flash 10.1 arrives for Android phones, it will only work on version 2.1. However, Flash 10.1 is supposed to arrive the first half of this year. Maybe by then most phones will be updated to 2.1.
[Via Gizmodo, LWN, Times Online]
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Flash Lite installed in the Nexus One stock browser
Feb 8th
I’m not finding any other information on this right now, but here’s a video of the N1 playing a YouTube video within the browser. I’ll post instructions or a link if I can find them.
UPDATE: Word is that this came from an insider who is contracting with Adobe. You’re not likely to find any tutorials that’ll get this running on your device.
Via @DrorBecker by way of @NeilLund
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