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Adobe Flash technology hitting Android soon?

25 March 2009 by Chris Davies


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After Andy Rubin demonstrated Flash working on the T-Mobile G1 last November, the assumption has been that the technology would arrive on Android sooner rather than later.  Five months on, and there’s still no sign from Adobe; however, embedded devices company Bsquare are claiming to be working with “a global, tier-one carrier” to bring Flash technology to the Android platform.

Bsquare has apparently already ported the Flash Player to over 100 embedded devices.  However this time around the company is porting “Flash technology” not the player itself, to Android.  It’s unclear exactly what this means for end-user functionality, and Bsquare are keeping quiet on the details.

Right now there are more questions than answers, and with no timescale, software details or even a hint of which carrier the company is working with (though the obvious guess would be T-Mobile) it’s hard to get excited.  Bsquare are an authorized distributor of the Adobe Flash Player and SDK, though, so we’d rate this a couple of notches above vaporware at least.

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  1. The wonders of Android..
  2. sweet! can't wait to play duke nukem forever on my 'droid!! lulz.
  3. Meh... I wish companies would just stop building web pages out of a technology that should really only be employed for specific elements. I know it has been worked and tweaked to be more friendly (since Adobe took over) to full presentations such as an entire corporate or product pages, but it just isn't portable enough to consider a company employing flash solely, "responsible" to their market in my opinion. Flash should be for games and animated elements, and developers should be doing their clients the favor of pushing more dynamic and portable web solutions to their clients.

    That being said, I just hope Android gets it before Apple :-P
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by happyandyv View Post
    That being said, I just hope Android gets it before Apple :-P
    agreed. that would be a huge victory for android.
  5. I'm just skeptical about the memory load when running flash websites or apps
    But I totally hope flash comes out on android before the iphone
  6. Once we get flash for the G1, then we can get Grooveshark.com, which is a very cool music site.
  7. It's hard to take many of these articles seriously when 'Bsquare are an' ...
  8. This whole Flash drama is pure BS.

    Just get it done. Just Typical Adobe.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by happyandyv View Post
    Meh... I wish companies would just stop building web pages out of a technology that should really only be employed for specific elements. I know it has been worked and tweaked to be more friendly (since Adobe took over) to full presentations such as an entire corporate or product pages, but it just isn't portable enough to consider a company employing flash solely, "responsible" to their market in my opinion. Flash should be for games and animated elements, and developers should be doing their clients the favor of pushing more dynamic and portable web solutions to their clients.

    That being said, I just hope Android gets it before Apple :-P
    I kind of agree. However, I think the best solution is to have a mobile version and a computer version. They could have a pretty flash one for computers and a functional mobile one for mobiles.
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