Adobe just released the version 1.6 of both OSMF and Strobe Media Playback. The main things added to them are:
Stage Video support for hardware-accelerated video presentation (OSMF)
Smartphone and tablet optimized chrome for Flash-enabled devices (Strobe Media Playback)
HTML5 video player for non-Flash devices (Strobe Media Playback)
JavaScript device detection library for selecting the appropriate player and chrome [...]
Flash Player 10.1 for Android has been released to different partners and a few mobile devices now do use Flash Player 10.1.
Google
Nexus One
HTC
Evo 4G
Desire
Motorola
Droid
Droid 2
Droid X
Also, you can see the list on adobe.com. Today there are six but the number is increasing and I’m sure other devices will emerge.
In the previous article Apple let us know that they are relaxing the App Store Review Guidelines. This is great moment and Adobe could not miss it. Adobe’s Packager for iPhone is already available in the Flash Professional CS5 and Adobe is resuming development on it.
Although this is a big step forward, Apple’s restriction on [...]
Previously Apple restricted the application development for iPod, iPhone & iPad and excluded a number of technologies like Unity, Titanium, MonoTouch, and Flash CS5, but no limited to these.
See the following articles that explains the limitations:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/apple-puts-another-nail-into-flashs-coffin/6554
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/04/20/on-adobe-flash-cs5-and-iphone-applications/
As a result to this restrictions Adobe has stopped the development for the iPhone.
Apple implied about Adobe…
They are lazy. [...]
Today I came across the following video…
The application in the video is a virtual dressing room! You can try out the clothes you want to buy in your living room and then purchase them if you like how they fit you or send the image to your friends on Facebook. What [...]
Today, 11th of August, Motorola launches Droid 2 mobile phone on Verizon mobile network and it will be available in stores on 12th of August. The important is that this is the first mobile phone that comes with Flash Player 10.1 out of the box.
Droid 2 is running Android [...]
Yesterday Adobe did release Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 7.
This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. Consumers can try the prerelease of Flash Player 10.1 to preview hardware acceleration of video on supported Windows PCs, [...]
Half a day ago new versions of Flash Player were released. I’m talking about Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 6, Flash Player “Gala” for Mac OS X 10.6.3, Flash Player 10.1 for Android and a few other versions.
Flash Player “Gala” introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3 which should reduce [...]
Couple of days ago Ryan Stewart, Evangelist for Adobe, presented the latest version of Flash Player on Android. The versions we are talking about are 10.1 for Flash Player and 2.2 for Android (Froyo). He shows up the http://ecodazoo.com/ a full 3D flash site, Google Finance (http://www.google.com/finance?q=adbe), How I met your mother from CBS, etc. [...]
Two day ago, Mike Chamber, Principal Product Manager at Adobe announced that there will not be any future investment in iPhone based Flash development.
This is the response after Apple put out a new draft of its iPhone developer program license, which banned private APIs and required apps to be written in Objective-C, C, C++, [...]
The FX4 Tour – Flex Camp Bucharest is over now. It has been a great success: there has been around 60 participants from which 65-70 percent were Flex developers. This is great! The Flex community is growing bigger and stronger.
Three interesting things:
seen TransformGestureEvent in action
Slider – Flex Mobile Framework is expected to be available in [...]
Yesterday, 5th of April 2010, Adobe has launched the Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate.
Designed for mobility – hardware acceleration of graphics and video and many other performance improvements, such as rendering, scripting, memory utilization, start-up time, battery and CPU optimizations
Global error handling – improved application reliability and user experience by catching and handling unexpected runtime [...]
A few friends showed me this ad. Incredible! Wonderful made. Please look how the background moves away to give space to the add and at the end the jar is zooming back in the movie. This is why Flash Player will evolve even more. I don’t think HTML5 will be able to do this (at [...]
A new version of Flash Player 10.1 has been released: Flash Player 10.1 beta 3. I summarized what’s new from the release notes bellow.
Support for new platforms
Designed for mobility
Developer productivity
Enhanced browser integration
Expanded options for high quality media delivery
Lots of fixed bugs are included in this release, bugs from graphics, networking, audio/video, text input, etc. More [...]
Flash Player 10.1 on mobile phones? Many thinks that is not possible. But it is. See a few demos of Flash Player 10.1 on different mobile phones showing up “the best way to experience the web“.
Flash Player 10.1 on Android
Flash Player 10.1 on BlackBerry
Flash Player 10.1 on Motorola Droid
Flash Player 10.1 on Palm Pre
Of [...]