This morning at Adobe’s MAX event, Andy Rubin made an appearance and had a chance to show a brief demo. Do we even have to say what it was he was doing there? Here is a hint, he was doing a demo with the beloved T-Mobile G1.
Andy Ruben has officially shown that Flash can run on Android. It is one thing to talk about it coming to a device, hint hint Apple, but when a device is released and shortly after is shown running Flash, it speaks volumes. Not only is it possible, but Android will be running Flash soon enough.
Ruben did not say when we will see it happen or in which way it will be delivered, but actually showing the demo live must mean we will be getting it fairly soon. What an amazing gift it would be from Google to wake up Christmas morning with Flash running on our G1. Adobe has already said that the iPhone will have flash as soon as they allow it. This is just one more way that Android and the G1 are outdoing Apple and the iPhone.
[Via Adobe]
But everything else on the phone is in Beta, so why not Flash?
Anyone seen any video yet?
How stupid would it be for Adobe to exclude a platform that could possibly be huge in several years time? Very stupid.... It's also key for the popular platforms to support OSs in their progress. This will be a very big one.
Ever since Microsoft announced moonlight for *nix based system we're seeing Adobe actually support something then Windows or OSX.
even better as a EARLY one . *wink wink*
lol bt im soo excited . this is awesome news !
ima be bragging for months to iphone and blackberry users
G1 + Android is about to pwn!!
http://gizmodo.com/5091606/adobe-say...to-the-g1-soon
Now we just need an update for the camera software, and ms office apps, and storage of apps to the sdcard.
It'll be nice to have but I don't see it as such a deal-breaker like everyone else does.
Two words: Google Documents
I think all it'll do is slow the browser to a crawl. I hope I'm wrong mind you.
Exactly.
Markus
Boooo yaaaahhhhhhhh to all the haterz!
There is a Wifi symbol in the left corner... anyone know what that is?
I think all it'll do is slow the browser to a crawl. I hope I'm wrong mind you.
SUPPORTED Flash can only be brought to us by Adobe. Windows is CAPABLE of running PhotoShop, that doesn't mean Microsoft is bringing graphic artists what they want.
Addendum: P.S. I wish that someone would have taken the time to spell Andy's name correctly (Rubin) before posting the article.
In the end its Google's call.
In any event... I bet you see Flash on iPhones after it makes its way to Android. I predict that when Apple sees a competing product sporting the feature and their customers crying "Foul!" that they cave. I'm not a bookie, but if I were that's where my Vegas money would reside.
There is a Wifi symbol in the left corner... anyone know what that is?
Wi-fi symbol in the left corner with a question mark, is just cause he has the "wi-fi network notification up" it just tells him that there is an open network available for him to join to get wi-fi access. And he does have a data connection. He's not running off 3G he's streaming the video off EDGE which is a data connection. Hope that helps and i believe i'm correct on the information i stated.