Adobe Flash 10.1 for mobile is ready to go

By on Jun 22, 2010 at 7:41 AM
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Hey Flash fans, the day has finally come. Today, Adobe announced the release of Flash 10.1 for all Android smartphones running Android OS 2.2 (Froyo). Not an Android user? No problem. Adobe goes on to write: “Flash Player 10.1 was also released to mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via over-the-air downloads and to be pre-installed on smart phones, tablets and other devices in the coming months.” Adobe also touted Flash 10.1′s optimization towards touch input, accelerometer recognition (for viewing Flash content in portrait mode), and smart zooming. All sounds good to us! Hit up the bounce for a list of partnered content providers and the rest of the release.

SAN JOSE, Calif., — June 22, 2010 —Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web across desktops and devices. Mobile users will now be able to experience millions of sites with rich applications and content inside the browser including games, animations, rich Internet applications (RIAs), data presentations and visualizations, ecommerce, music, video, audio and more.

Already one of the top free apps on Android™ Market today, Flash Player 10.1 will be available as a final production release for smart phones and tablets once users are able to upgrade to Android 2.2 “Froyo.” Devices supporting “Froyo” and Flash Player 10.1 are expected to include the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, DROID by Motorola, Motorola Milestone, Samsung Galaxy S and others. Flash Player 10.1 was also released to mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via over-the-air downloads and to be pre-installed on smart phones, tablets and other devices in the coming months.

“We are thrilled that more than three million Flash designers and developers are now able to unleash their creativity on the world of smart phones, tablets, netbooks, televisions and other consumer electronics,” said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business at Adobe. “The combined power of the leading rich media technology platform with millions of passionate creatives is sure to impact the world in ways we haven’t even imagined yet.”

Broad Partner Support
Device and technology partners including ARM, Brightcove, Dell, Google, HTC, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung, Texas Instruments and others announced more specifics around their support for Flash Player 10.1 today.

Content publishers including AgencyNet, AKQA, Armor Games, Blitz, CNET.com, HBO, JustinTV, Kongregate, Mochi Media, Msnbc Digital Network, Turner, Nickelodeon, Odopod, Photobucket, RAIN, Roundarch, Sony Pictures, South Park Studios, USA Network, Viacom, Warner Brothers and many others have also started to optimize Flash content to deliver the best possible experience within the context of smaller screens, which includes larger buttons for interactions, layout adjustments for mobile screens and more.

For details visit http://www.adobe.com/go/flashquote_sheet_101 or m.flash.com, Adobe’s showcase site for optimized Flash content. For more information on how to optimize Flash content for mobile, visit http://www.adobe.com/go/fpmobile.

New High Performance Features
Completely redesigned and optimized for mobile, Flash Player 10.1 delivers new interaction methods with support for mobile-specific input models. Support for accelerometer allows users to view Flash content in landscape and portrait mode. With Smart Zooming, users can scale content to full screen mode delivering immersive application-like experiences from a Web page. Performance optimization work with virtually all major mobile silicon and platform vendors makes efficient use of CPU and battery performance.

The new Smart Rendering feature ensures that Flash content is running only when it becomes visible on the screen, further reducing CPU and battery consumption. With Sleep Mode, Flash Player automatically slows down when the device transitions into screen saver mode. Advanced Out-of-Memory Management allows the player to effectively handle non-optimized content that consumes excessive resources, while automatic memory reduction decreases content usage of RAM by up to 50 percent. Flash Player pauses automatically when events occur such as incoming phone calls or switching from the browser to other device functions. Once users switch back to the browser, Flash Player resumes where it paused.

Industry Analyst Feedback
“Although it is labeled a dot release, Flash Player 10.1 is a significant update that includes a number of new performance and mobile specific features,” said Al Hilwa, program director of the Application Development Program at IDC. “This allows consumers to see a much bigger part of the Web and allows developers to bring their Flash Platform skills to a much bigger swath of devices.”

“For the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to test an Android Froyo device loaded with a beta of Flash Player 10.1,” said Ben Bajarin, principal analyst at Creative Strategies. “The overall experience and performance of Flash has been impressive. Mobile users now have access to full Web pages with rich Flash content on millions of sites. With the new mobile specific features, developers also have an important opportunity to help shape the way Web content, games, touch capabilities and more are presented across platforms and devices as Froyo and other platforms deliver full Flash support.”

Additional Resources
To watch demo videos of Flash Player 10.1 running across devices, including smart phones and tablets, visit http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/demos.

Availability
Flash Player 10.1 is expected to be available as a final production release for devices once users are able to upgrade to Android 2.2 “Froyo.” Once upgraded, smart phones, tablets and other devices can be updated with Flash Player 10.1 over-the-air via numerous ways including content triggered downloads, system software updates and on-device app catalogs such as Android Market, Adobe Labs and other venues. The upgrade mechanism will vary by device and device manufacturer. The desktop version of Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac OS and Linux is available on http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer today.

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  • GRIdpOOL

    Who needs flash on a phone?

    • E__P

      It’s good when it comes to Flash-based apps (Adobe Air for example). One app to develop, compatibility with multiple platforms.

      • reitex

        What is the point of having multiple platforms if one then sticks a meta-platform on top of it for creating and running apps?

        The develop-once, run-anywhere idea offers few advantages to users and appeals to lazy developers more driven by minimising costs than by performance, optimization, elegance, and consistent user experience.

        I’ve never seen the huge appeal of Apple products, but the company’s active stance to kill the disaster that is Flash is highly commendable. If Flash succeeds as a meta-platform, we will end up with an even more stifling and pervasive monoculture than we had with Windows, to an even greater detriment to consumers.

      • http://www.matthewfabb.com/ Matthew Fabb

        The thing is that many apps are only available for one platform or another, because there isn’t a budget to create apps for all mobile platforms. The write-once and deploy everywhere, or even write-once and tweak means many of the more simple apps (like say the many Twitter or Facebook apps) means more platforms get apps they might not normally. That’s why Apple wants to shut down not just Adobe’s Flash but other platforms that target multiple mobile devices, as they would lose out on.

        Meanwhile, if these apps are really that bad, they will get bad ratings and people won’t buy them, so that developers would stay away from these platforms (Apple actually put some apps made with Flash CS5 in their feature apps in the iTunes store, not realizing how they were made).

    • AusFest

      People who like porn, dumb fuck!

    • Jay

      What’s the problem with not having it?

    • Sal

      Iphone needs thatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!

      • guest

        why would apple allow anything that takes business away from the app store and itunes?

      • Churl

        Yeah. Waiting to see if Google will remove those music download links in the UK as demanded now that they want to create an iTunes-copy store and do business with the record companies. We’ll see if they’ll allow something that takes away business from their own store.

  • Terrible Terrible Damage

    FIRST! Knight me bitches!@

    • L

      fail

  • allen

    Uhh. anyone who wants to watch streaming video content. Which most sites now require. For example, HULU, CBS, ABC, NBC, WB, and more!

    • RattyUK

      These sites are currently blocking access from mobile devices. Not because they are running Flash but because the providers want to charge money for mobile devices.

      • meske

        And if you configure your device properly, it does not appear to be a mobile device.

        It amuses me how people pay for things that are free to others. For example, this morning listening to ESPN radio, they mention you can watch / listen to all the world cup games free on ESPN3 or ESPN Radio (dot com) or download the worlcup pack for the iPhone/iPad ESPN app for a one time charge of $4.95. If those devices supported flash, you could get it all for free off the web!

      • Shantanu

        That’s certainly retarded and basically just comes down to greed, not a lack of technological functionality on the part of Google’s Android platform. It’s not like Adobe Flash on Android skips the commercials on Hulu for instance so there should be no reason they’re blocking it other than pure greed.

  • roebling

    Nexus One users who upgraded the OS to 2.2 last month have had Adobe Flash access. With latest upgrade last week, Flash is now version 10.1.72,7.

  • aleks

    You have an iphone, don’t you?

  • John Doe

    hot f’in damn. awesome!

  • GRIdpOOL

    I work in UI design. I know that traditionally flash has been a desktop platform. While I don’t dislike flash as a content delivery system, it’s just that. It’s an extra layer and container for otherwise generic video in some cases. I believe if you can make it work well for both desktop and mobile devices then it is welcome; as long as it’s free to use and develop. The ubiquitous flash player seems like “extra” software. I really do welcome HTML5 and believe it can deliver content much more easily to multiple platforms.

  • DMG

    @Terrible Terrible Damage,

    Lolololol

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • JBR

    So can we expect an iPhone version??

    • mobile

      Nope! You can thank your savior, Steve Jobs, for that one.

      • JBR

        Crap :( Not to worry. As soon as they get everything working with the Android port I’ll be switching my os

      • Sal

        Yea steve jobs should fix his garbage ios4 first then talk about flash.

    • Adam

      According to this article um there is only one version coming out now and the other OSes have to wait for the “coming months” haha Adobe fail.

  • Droid X is coming!

    Hi, my name is Bob and here at work the internets is blocked. This makes me a very sad Panda. But my supervisor lets us use our smartphones so yayyyy! But when I go to a site on my Droid device and it has a flash video I cant view it. Now when I get 2.2 I will have the full web exp. Also now that Ive had my Droid I hardly use my PC for web browsing so this Flash update is really going to kick hiney. M’kay Gridpool?

  • someguy

    so where is it if its released for mobile lol

  • Kar

    How about Froyo OTA for Nexus One users? I am getting sick of downloading so called RC version manually. If I had to do one more manual upgrade from Google, I am installing Cyganoge. Flash “on demand” on Nexus One or any other phones is the best thing. Sure I am not going to play Zombie Vs Plant on my phone but there are some news video and other flash content that can be beneficial. Even Iphone users can be beneficial from having flash.

  • Droid X is coming!

    The voting system here is pointless, you can just tell all the lame Apple zombies are down voting anything positive about this. Got Flash? Not even on your iTampon? Sux 4 u!

    • Ick

      Hm, no I actually don’t own or like any Apple products, would take Android and WinMo before any iPhone or iFad, don’t care about the ‘Flash wars’ and down voted you because your comments SUCK ASS. STFU you idiot…. psst, by the way, the mere fact that you even care if your comment is voted up or down makes you a pretty sad loser. Did you read all that from your smartphone? Great… technology rocks.

  • Steve Jobs (Sjo)

    Umm, iPhone lovers, can I please my nuts back?

  • the Goat

    Actually it appears to NOT be ready to go for all andoroid 2.2 devices yet. I have android 2.2 on my droid and I can’t find flash player in the market. I do have the beta flash player installed and working though. (manually installed; not through the market).

    Really, I’m not concerned. I never go to flash sites. I have only used the player once. I wanted to see if was installed correctly and worked. I had to use google to find a site to try it with because I didn’t know any flash websites!

    • Ick

      Waiiit… say you don’t visit flash sites, ok. that’s legit. Not everyone really wants to watch junk on their phone. I hardly do to. But to say you don’t know any Flash websites is… dumb. There’s a book at Barnes & Noble called ‘Internet For Dummies’, you might want to read it.

      • the Goat

        Really? You are calling me dumb? That is really uncalled for.

        I don’t know any sites that use flash because: I don’t watch crappy over compressed TV over the web. I watch HD TV on my television. I don’t play crappy videogames over the web. I play videogames on my PC or my PS3. I don’t go to web sites with super fancy animated flash content because I don’t care about super fancy animated flash content.

        The reason I don’t know any sites that use flash is not because I actively avoid them. I’m just not interested in the “content” of any site that uses flash. Flash content is always inferior to dedicated competition (flash video vs. TV, flash game vs. PS3, etc.).

  • Jake

    “Future versions of Windows Phone”

    Just have one thing to say to Adobe as a WM user now,…

    Fuck you Adobe!

    Left out about 16 million users in your last few support an release remarks,.Again.

    I am starting to lean away from them as a company, maybe the Sheppard of the fruits is onto something about Adobe as a whole..

  • jazzyl

    Great news I can’t wait for flash on the BlackBerry 9800 slider. Just hope this won’t be kill the battery.

     Sent via BlackBerry

  • Adam

    So it’s available on 2.2, which not that many people are running right now, and will be available for “everything else” in “coming months” har har what is that 15 or 16 coming months? Gook luck with that

  • Fancy

    Flash + Blackberry = COOL!
    Flash + Android = COOL!

    I don’t care what Apple says, unless Steve Job has the power to force every single website in the world to redesign the website without using Flash right now, I want the entire internet available to me on my mobile device!

  • Tony

    How do I get this flash on to my motorola droiod? Appreciate if someone could hel me out. Thank you

  • David A

    Hows that for squandering all their potential Steve Jobs. Looks like a launch for every smart OS except iPhone.

    You just got checked

    P.S I really hope HTML5 is the way of the future for ya :D

  • http://www.example.com.ru Example

    If Adobe invested the same amount of money and time into actually advancing Flash that they put into criticizing Apple’s decisions maybe it would actually be a good platform. They are trying to get into onto other platforms when it doesn’t even support 64-bit yet. All major operating systems have 64-bit support and most web browsers have already and are already transitioned over. Flash is also well known for performing great on Windows and not Linux based distributions or Mac OS X. They really should invest in what they have instead of making a fret about what others are doing and trying to engage in new markets when their offerings are not too well off, but it will all come down to the consumer really. Most will not understand the bickering between the two. All they will understand is if their browser crashes or if it doesn’t as a result of Flash. How Flash plays out on the mobile phone will be an interesting sight once some benchmarks from respectable companies emerge.

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