When will Strong Bad and company become native Android applications? Anytime after Q4 2010 -- that's when Adobe says it wants to have
Adobe AIR for Android runtimes publicly available in the Android Market, along with
an initial batch of apps, and fairly exciting potential for more. The Android release will be part of AIR 2.5 and grant would-be developers access to your smartphone's camera, microphone, accelerometer and GPS as well as providing
hardware GPU acceleration and multitouch input, which could make for some exciting
PopCap games completely serious and
not at all game related utilities down the road. Don't necessarily expect them to work on every Android phone, however, as there are some prerequisites for AIR, namely an ARMv7 processor or better with a vector co-processor, OpenGL ES 2.0 and
Froyo, but Adobe says if your device handles
Flash 10.1, it'll probably run AIR.
On a related note, if you weren't yet sold on
Google TV, a breath of fresh AIR might help -- Adobe told us it's presently pondering the correct time to add the cross-platform runtimes on Google's video streaming boxes as well.
posted August 16th 2010 7:56PM
Cool!
Hope FROYO comes sooner on my EPIC to get some AIR on it !
@GaryZ Man...Adobe is out on the offensive now. After giving Flash 10.1 final for Froyo, AIR is gonna be awesome.
@GaryZ This better work GOOD, cause dalvnik and Java sounds shitty right now
@GaryZ This better work GOOD, cause dalvnik and Java sounds shitty right now
Ok, so now they've released Flash for Android that I won't be installing... any AiR apps worth getting excited about?
@GaryZ This should be released right in time for Gingerbread
@GaryZ
I love my nexus one. it gets all the good stuff.....
@kramer
So.... there's FLASH.... and then AIR.... what's the difference again?
@Plazmic Flame AIR is bad cop, Flash is good cop. Yes, I intended for it to be in that order.
@GaryZ
Is that a cool rush of AIR from developers running to Adobe? NOT. Sorry, Adobe, you've outsourced everything to India but with bad management. Dropping Shockwave, Shockwave3D, agreements Havok, and idling on Flash to launch Adobe (hot) AIR does not make your core products any better.
No C++. Mono, .NET or Java programmers are going to be abandoning their code for you anytime soon. Stick to creativity apps, or rather start sticking to your creativity apps because AIR is/will be as popular as Acrobat 3D (remember that?) and now to be Flash 3D.
Shame really Shockwave had it all and you let Tom Higgins go. Long live Unity3D.com!
think Flash as Web, think Air as App. It is easy.
Flash+Google TV may well be a win.
@Taller I don't get the hype, how much it will cost? will it be cheaper than PS3 and Xbox? and what it can do that those systems cant? people should get out of Google's hype! you know which Google i'm talkin about? the one who refused to pay anything to the dying Sun for licensing java, the one who had the money to buy the Sun and protect its OEM's(htc,motorola.etc) and refused to, THE ONE WHO KILLED INTERNET AS WE KNEW IT TODAY ONE WEEK AGO, yep praise that Google
@arash the internets dead? huh must have missed it while iw as watching hulu., but wait, thats on the interent. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE.
@huskie fluff i said internet as we know it today, you watch that hulu too much though. i referred to the net neutrality plans which had an exception for wireless networks, and as we all know wireless is what is going to be everything in the future, so, you imagine the possibilities! its a long talk
@arash Yeah down-rank me:)) did you read what i said or you just down-rank anything against your idea? wait for the internet to become like the shitty system of american tv's and cable networks then come back and read my comment again. until then hooray every time you hear the word google tv
@arash
Well, you just admitted that everything in the future will be wireless. There's an extremely limited amount of wireless bandwidth available. Management will be necessary to prevent wireless channels from becoming a gridlock of data traffic. I support the proposed guidelines as an electrical engineer.
@jaxxmjd First i should say i don't believe there would be a limited amount of bandwidth available, upcoming technologies are ahead of our usage. second if something like this existed before, we would never had any youtube, facebook or hotmail company, cause the rich competitors will kill them easily. its just sad, how can you say there's a limited bandwidth in future? thats what at&t and verizon say to you, just watch southkorean or japanese operators, do you really think people in southkorea use less data that you in the USA? no its just that they don't have some control freak companies like you, and maybe people don't accept whatever they hear like most of americans who live in myths. you really should do something about yourselves.
@arash
Ok, I'll say it again slower for you: I'm an electrical engineer. I design antennas and work on future communications applications such as software defined radios. I understand the intricacies of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. You obviously do not or you would know that the physics which govern our daily lives also limit the amount of EM spectrum that's available. The EM spectrum is already very closely moderated because so many devices use wireless technologies. You should look up the FCC's frequency spectrum chart to understand it better.
Because the amount of spectrum available isn't going to increase (or only marginally increase due to reproportioning), increased management will become important as the number of wireless devices continues to increase exponentially as well as the average data demands for those devices. We already see this problem in our daily lives. It's why your phone doesn't pull the maximum bandwidth that it's rated for. That much bandwidth is simply not available for each phone.
I do agree that the threat of unfair business practices will exist and that may cause problems for developing technologies. But that will require oversight by the federal government. There's a huge difference between moderating traffic to improve throughput and singling out competitors. Ultimately, those considerations must be included in the final policies.
@jaxxmjd As i'm not fully convinced about limitations and i won't argue that anymore but i still have my point about google's fake hype
Adobe is on a friggin mission
Keep it up!
Haven't been hearing ios news for a while.
@blenderx360
Sure we have. Adobe says they're over it.
@blenderx360 You should try the site Engadget.
@blenderx360
Apple's too busy trying to decide the next feature to copy and declare as an innovation.
@jaxxmjd ...or...picking some random number product and declare it evil and full of blame. Apple blame. The most premium sort of blame.
Does the epic have the right processer?
@Justin Bieber 3
yes
if(android phone+dock==google tv || google tv < $100){
google tv = win;
}
else{
google tv = fail;
}
@engadgetcomexcludeengadget
HTML?
@Programmer
Never mind, Java,
@Programmer Oh don't say that, you may end up in court
@Programmer
Programmer might be the wrong moniker.
@Programmer Actually it was C++, but I guess it works in Java too.
@engadgetcomexcludeengadget
Actually, don't think it's any language since you can't have a 2 word (with space) anything
shouldn't it be: MINIMUM ARMv7?
HTC Desire compatible?
Snapdragon processor, so yes.
"probably" run AIR.
sounds promising.
it would appear, that adobe is taking apple's shunning of flash quite personally. How many adobe announcements for android in the past months?
I've been working on an AIR app for Android the past few weeks and Adobe really has done a great job of making it easy for Flash developers to build apps. There is so much potential. I really hope they find a way to allow AIR widgets too.
@adamwjohnson5 what is the best resource on internet or book for AIR (Flash) on Android?
@stanar007
Maybe some of these are useful:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/?view=documentation#flash
http://flashspeaksactionscript.com/10-adobe-air-books/
Adobe AIR Bible by Benjamin Gorton
@Beatnik
AIR in Action by Manning Press is amazing, as is the O'Reilly AIR 1.5 cookbook. AIR 2.0 stuff is present on the Flex 3.5 Docs online and in the Flex 4 Cookbook from O'Reilly.
@adamwjohnson5
Same here. Im working on a box2d game though.
@adamwjohnson5
Funny enough, I posted a tutorial on how to create Air for Android applications last weekend. This is of course using Air for Android beta available by Adobe.
http://www.michelboudreau.com/2010/08/15/flex-on-android/
@stanar007 Sign up to the pre-release. The documentation and forum should be enough.
Will the original moto droid be capable?
@WastedxYears
I hope so, i have no intention of getting rid of mine any time soon!