Is Flash on Android Possible?
Read a headline, Symbian dismisses Google Android, on iContact Community and made me thinking. It seems to me, like it or not, Android will change how information technologies be deployed to people or business. I can compare this with when PC and DOS were introduced out of the mainframe age. Also, we all know that regardless how platform shifts, UI counts, and now connection counts too. So, how RIA, the representation of good UI with connection, fits into the new Android world?
Is there a place for Flash based UI on the Android platform?
Android is such as open platform where anyone can develop anything to extend it. Do you think Adobe will have a plan for it? I wish they do. There are limitation or challenges though. So far, Android won’t open up to C/C++ application, it only allow Java based application development, as far as I know. So, just from pure technical perspective, is Flash on Android possible?
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If the OS runs on Linux (I think it does right?), and there’s a version of FP9 for Linux, there seems to be a good chance that it is possible. Google are doing the opposite to Apple here, they are not making the hardware, and they are making it as easy as possible to make third party software for this mobile OS, so with that said, Flash is an excellent platform for making that happen, as well as the other supported platforms Android supports “out of the box”.
I think the FlashHome platform showed at MAX keynote (or was it the sneek peeks?) would be a pretty good fit for Android.
Google should let flash to be used in Android to make it a big success within quick time .. and power of flash will make it easy to acheive..
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Google doesn’t control the applications on Android, but the default factory set up(what applications come bundled) is up to each manufacturer.
JMF is capable of playing flash v2 so it will need a massive update(and it still can’t play MPEG4 and other common formats and standards), but there are products and projects that aim for flash inside java utilities.
Hopefully, when Android takes off, a java implementation of a flash player will surface as demand increases.