Adobe said its army of Flash developers on the desktop will now be able to launch mobile applications too. The company unveiled Adobe AIR for mobile devices and said it will support Google’s Android platform this year.
Adobe, which is in a high profile spat with Apple over Flash support on the iPad and iPhone, announced the following from the Mobile World Congress 2010 (statement, Techmeme):
Flash Player 10.1 beta is available to content providers and mobile developers with general availability in the first half of 2010. This version is a consistent runtime across PCs, tablets, smartphone and consumer electronics.
AIR for mobile devices is designed to allow developers to cover multiple operating systems and browsers. The big selling point is that developers can create applications once and sell them across multiple platforms and app stores.
AIR will support Android in 2010.
Symbian will join Adobe’s Open Screen Project, which is designed to take Flash across multiple screens.
Mobile operating systems that will support Flash Player 10.1 include Android, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm’s WebOS and Windows Mobile. Adobe has posted a bunch of demo videos by platform.
That last item is Adobe’s “we have you surrounded line” to Apple. Adobe’s plan is to take AIR and combine it with its Creative Suite so developers and content publishers can test and create multiple apps to go everywhere.
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