Adobe have released updated versions of their Flash Player and AIR applications for Android, and both are currently nestling in the Android market, ready for your downloading pleasure.
Adobe has announced that its Flash 10.1 software for the Android platform has notched up over 1 million downloads.
Taking time out from the growing bunfight with Steve Jobs and the Apple Flash h8Rz, Paul Betlem, Flash Player Engineering main man has blogged up his delight at announcing that the new Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.
It’s available to download right now from here, with Flash Player 10.1 for Android set to follow later this month.
Google has confirmed that future versions of its Google Chrome browser will integrate Adobe’s Flash plug-in.
The move looks set to aggravate relations with Apple a little further, who have declared the Flash platform to be too unstable, too buggy and too much of a CPU hog to grace the company’s iPhone and iPad devices.
The guys at PreCentral managed to bag some hands-on time with a GSM Palm Pre running an early version of Flash, and have shared the video with the world.
Apple iPhone users may have as much chance of seeing Flash on their phone as Portsmouth have of winning the Premiership, but Palm webOS users should soon be lapping up the Flash goodness on their handsets.
According to an article on PreCentral, Palm employees at a launch event in France last night, “specifically said that Flash would be available in February.” So, that’s some time in the next three weeks.
Like a bickering couple locked in a loveless marriage, Apple and Adobe don’t get on, but they’re forced to work together from time to time.
Such is the acrimony between these two, that Apple preferred to cripple its iPad by leaving out Flash support, and Adobe has declared itself seriously unchuffed, responding in its blog:
Adobe have announced that public betas of Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile and webOS will be made available before the end of the year, with the Android and Symbian platforms following in “early” 2010.
Getting Flash on to mobile platforms has long been a goal for Adobe, and it’ll be great news for punters too, who will now be able to fully enjoy multimedia-heavy websites.
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