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May

Beyond Froyo: Google Drops Some Potential Gingerbread Crumbs

Posted by Neal Tucker in Applications, Apps/Games, News, Other Reviews, Reviews

Last Updated: July 24th, 2011

Today is Day Two of the Google I/O 2010 conference, and the Android universe is celebrating and rioting in the streets (in a good way - like Mardi Gras). In addition to speed (2x-5x faster than Eclair), support for Flash Player 10.1 Public Beta/AIR Developer Pre-Release, and native tethering/ hotspot support, there are a number of changes that will make your Android life easier.

Update by Artem Russakovskii: You guys are all correct - there should be no gingerbread icon here unless Google actually confirms that this is what is indeed happening.

If a feature will not be available right away, as many of you pointed out, it doesn't mean that it will have to show up all the way in the next major version, especially now that many applications are decoupled from the OS.

May

A Video Of An Adobe Evangelist Showcasing Flash 10.1 Smoothly Running On A Nexus One With Android 2.2 Froyo

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in News, Videos

Today we have a new video from Ryan Stewart, an Adobe evangelist, who shows off his Nexus One running a Froyo build (that's Android 2.2 for those who live in a cave) and Flash 10.1.

In the video, Ryan and his shiny dome show off a handful of examples from fully featured Flash applications to video players playing videos, all relatively smoothly and crashing free (it *is* a pre-recorded demo though, I wonder how it performs in real-life conditions).

Ryan visits the following sites:

Ecodazoo.com which contains highly dynamic and complicated Flash content
Google Finance which has Flash stock charts
CBS playing an episode of How I Met Your Mother (I LOVE this show)
NHL playing a video of a hockey game
Kongregate.com running a Flash game called Alchemist
Martha Stewart's site with a Flash menu slider
BBC News with a Flash slideshow

The Android Flash player apparently has an ability to use a special video codec optimized for mobile.

May

[Complete Guide] How To Flash A Custom ROM To Your Android Phone With ROM Manager + Full Backup & Restore

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Development, Tips & Tutorials

Last Updated: January 20th, 2011

Have you been hearing about all this custom ROM business - Cyanogen, DamageControl, etc and wondering what in the world all those are about?

Or perhaps you already know what those are but are still afraid of trying custom ROMs on your phone because you don't know how to install them or don't want to lose your data and current OS state?

Well, today is your lucky day because in this article from the "I wish somebody showed me how to do this crap when I was getting started" series, I will show you how to

easily install a custom ROM but only after you
back up your current system and exact phone state so that you can
restore to that exact state with a click of a button

What do you have to lose now?

May

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

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in News, Videos

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.

Apr

Google's VP Of Engineering Confirms Full Flash Support In Android 2.2 Froyo, Compares Apple To North Korea

Posted by John Thompson in News

Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, recently gave an interview to the New York Times, touching on topics ranging from Flash to North Korea. With Google vying for top place in the smartphone market, Rubin seemed confident that Android devices can overtake the number of iPhones, saying

I don’t know when it might be, but I’m confident it will happen. Open usually wins.

When commenting on the number of Android devices that are currently on the market, Rubin said that the driving force behind Android taking off is the fact that it’s open and available to so many manufacturers, commenting on how

It’s a numbers game.

Apr

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 Mattias Ahlvin 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.

Apr

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

Posted by John Thompson in News

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.

Apr

The Leaks Continue – Meet The Dell Flash And The Dell Smoke

Posted by Chris Dehghanpoor in AT&T, Carriers, Dell, Flash, News, Smoke

Engadget’s leaked a few more Dell phones that just might steal the just announced Thunder’s… well, thunder (that’s the last one, I swear). This time we’re focusing on two handsets that are confirmed to run Froyo and mix things up bit when it comes to form factor.

Dell’s Smoke is a qwerty candybar with an 800MHz CPU, a 5MP autofocus camera, 14.4Mbps HSPA and dual-mic noise cancelling technology. It also packs Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR, much to the surprise of no one. You can count on a 2.8 inch QVGA display atop what looks to me like an especially cramped set of keys in a package no thicker than 12mm.

Apr

Dell Sets The Stage With Their New Android UI – Will Include Flash... And Run Froyo?

Posted by Chris Dehghanpoor in AT&T, Carriers, Devices By Manufacturer, Flash, News, Smoke, Thunder

Finally, a decent Android skin that isn’t HTC’s Sense UI. Along with a few details about Dell’s newest superphones, we’ve been treated with plenty of information about their custom Android skin, dubbed Stage UI.

It seems that, initially at least, this new UI will be exclusive to Dell’s newly leaked trio of high-end Android phones, the Thunder, the Flash, and the Smoke. At this point there’s a bit of confusion as to which version of Android the Stage UI will be based on, with Engadget reporting that the Thunder will run Flash and Android 2.1 and the other two phones set to run Froyo.

Apr

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

Posted by Chris Dehghanpoor 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.