Been hankering to see what Flash -- via the
Open Screen Project -- actually looks like on an Android (or any modern mobile) device? Well hanker no more, ya'll. Adobe has helpfully dropped a video on us which has Flash team member Adrian Ludwig demo'ing the newly minted HTC Hero (multitouch gestures included). Once the content loads up, it seems to run at a pretty snappy rate, though waiting on Flash content to appear doesn't look encouraging if you're in the midst of casual browsing (or on a weak connection). We'll be interested to see what this is like in the real world -- and for platforms beyond Android -- but for now at least we've got something to go on.
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posted Jun 24th 2009 at 10:09AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris @ Jun 24th 2009 10:48AM
Wow, way to have ugly thumbs detract from the Demo!
I hope his thumb didn't get that way hammering at the capacitive touchscreen...
Ryan Gardner @ Jun 24th 2009 1:37PM
I've run the flash player on my android device. It's limited, and it doesn't play sites like Hulu or any flex apps I've tried. Admittedly, I don't have a hero - but the only effect I have noticed is that it slows down any page that has flash banner ads to a crawl and has nothing worthwhile in it.
Part of the problem is that it identifies itself as some funky version of flash that breaks a lot of detection scripts. It identifies itself as "AFL 9,1,122,0" (but does identify that it is video and audio capable) -
On the HTC Dream (which has half the ram of the Hero, so will not perform nearly as well) the flash version checking page takes about 2 or 3 minutes to load.)
erikraf @ Jun 24th 2009 5:40PM
Jesus christ, those are some ugly fingers.
I know this is not skin ad, but rather phone ad, it's not esthetically pleasant to look at such hand. Other manufacturers always use hand models, especially Apple.