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Jul
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Adobe AIR Pre-release Leaked (Download Link Included)

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Last Updated: August 3rd, 2010

What Is Adobe AIR for Android?

First, some background on Adobe Air (from Adobe Air’s official site):

Adobe® AIR® will let you publish ActionScript 3 projects to run as native applications (.apk) for the Android OS. These AIR applications can be delivered to Android devices through Android application stores such as the Android Market.

Developers can write new code or reuse existing web content to build AIR applications for the Android OS. Because the source code and assets are reusable across the Flash Platform runtimes, Adobe AIR and Flash Player, it also gives developers a way to more easily target other mobile and desktop environments

The result for end users is that they get full featured applications that are easy to for their developers to support and are compatible with most operating systems out of the box.

04
May
Adobe Flash and Air on a prototype Android tablet

Adobe Shows Off A Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Running Flash And Air "Flawlessly"

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The Web 2.0 Expo happening in San Francisco has us quite excited, as Zedomax.com, a blog revolving around technology and gadgets, has found an Android tablet prototype smoothly running Flash and Air.

As you may remember, Adobe had a bit of a falling out with Apple last month, and vowed to instead gun for Android at full speed. With that announcement, we found out that the private Air/Flash beta has been a huge success with developers, with some porting their apps from Flash/Air to Android in a matter of hours.

According to Max, the founder of Zedomax, the tablet he saw was running Flash and Air apps, including Youtube, flawlessly:

It runs Adobe’s Flash and Air apps flawlessly.  That was the first time I saw Adobe’s Air apps running on a tablet and totally impressed by how it ran.

22
Apr
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Flash And Air Developers Port Existing Apps To Android In 10 Minutes, Give Feedback From The Private Beta Of Flash/Air For Android

Posted by in Applications, Development, News

The recent drama over Apple’s rejection of Adobe technology caused quite a stir online, generating a large number of blog posts, massive amounts of commentary, a fair share of whining, and much hating. With Adobe finally resigned to the fact that they were effectively shut out of the iPhone (at least for now), it seems like the Android community is getting much more attention suddenly, as previously reported by Android Police and others.

As a result, Adobe seems to be pushing Flash and Air more aggressively and announced on their Air blog that developers have already started porting Adobe AIR applications to Android very successfully:

"Over the last few days, developers in the Adobe AIR for Android private beta started creating AIR applications for the Android OS.

22
Apr
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Adobe Ceases Its Efforts To Bring Flash To The iPhone, Concentrates On Android Instead

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You can’t say you didn’t see it coming! Adobe have officially given up on any kind of development efforts for Flash and Flash tools for the iPhone, just days after announcing that a public beta of Flash is planned for Android.

After months of trying to convince Apple to allow Flash on the iPhone OS, Adobe banked big on its ‘Packager for iPhone’ application which was supposed to ship with the CS5 suite released a few days ago. This program converted Flash applications into iPhone ones allowing developers to easily submit their apps to the App Store.

Neither Flash nor the announcement of the Flash to iPhone converter made Apple too happy, who changed their developer rules in their iPhone OS 4.0 to lock down developers to “Objective-C, C++ or JavaScript” only.

19
Apr
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Update: Adobe Says “LOL JK” – Flash Will Be Released Before End Of 1H 2010

Posted by in Applications, Apps/Games, Devices By Manufacturer, Games, News
Last Updated: August 1st, 2012

Queue the sad trombone.

Remember that big stink about Flash not being out on Android (and other mobile platforms) until the second half of 2010? Well, it turns out it was much ado about nothing.

Apparently, when Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said:

We have a number of excited partners who are working aggressively with us to bring Flash to their devices whether they be smartphones, as well as handsets, and so companies like Google and RIM and Palm are going to be releasing Flash on smartphones and tablets in the second half of the year.

he was referring to Flash being pre-installed on phones at the factory.  According Serge Jespers, an Adobe evangelist, Flash should be available for after market consumption before the end of this quarter, and that you can expect to install it either via the Market, a carrier pushed OTA, or straight from Adobe’s website.

18
Apr

Flash Beta To Hit Android Devices In May, Require Froyo? We Have The Beta Sign-Up Links!

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If Twitter and a few online forum posts are to be believed, Adobe had some interesting things to say about Flash hitting Android yesterday at FlashCamp, a mini-conference for developers held at Adobe's San Francisco offices.

Details are still somewhat sparse, as we're piecing them together from various sources around the web, but it appears that Adobe not only raffled off a Nexus One and demoed a few flash games on Android, but they also announced that Flash would run exclusively on Froyo builds and higher, and that both Froyo and Flash would be released in May.

Seeing as how seriously a May release date would conflict with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen's previous statement, I'm guessing that it is actually a beta that would be released in May and not a final build.

18
Apr

Flash Delayed Until 2H 2010, Android Tablet Makers Weep

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Last Updated: April 19th, 2010

Another day, another delay. Recently, Fox Business News sat down with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen to talk about their new Creative Suite 5 and the controversy regarding Apple excluding Flash from their recent software updates when he let slip that a mobile version of Flash on a variety of platforms, including Android, will be available in the second half of the year.

You can find full video here, but I've excerpted the juicy bits below:

We have a number of excited partners who are working aggressively with us to bring Flash to their devices whether they be smartphones, as well as handsets, and so companies like Google and RIM and Palm are going to be releasing Flash on smartphones and tablets in the second half of the year.

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