Examples of Flash Content Running on Android
Posted by magician | Posted in Web | Posted on 11-05-2010
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On Friday I gave the Keynote at Flash Camp Seattle and as part of that keynote I tried to show off Flash Player 10.1 running on Nexus One. Unfortunately the demo didn’t go well and it got some attention around the web. I’ve had a great experience with Flash on my Nexus One but in this case I was running an interim Flash Player build, one I probably should not have installed, and one that I definitely should not have used for any public demos
After I saw Jeff’s blog post, I sat down, upgraded my Flash Player, and went through and tested some of the sites I use on a regular basis. The experience was fantastic. Everything from the Eco Zoo to the NHL video site runs almost flawlessly. While it won’t make up for my mistake at Flash Camp, I recorded a video so people could see an experience that will be much closer to the final experience with Flash Player on Android.
It’s been cool to see so many Flash sites work on mobile devices. However because there is such a variety of Flash content out on the web, it’s important to understand that not all of it is going to run on devices like the Nexus One, both because of lower hardware capabilities of devices and because of user interface design.
A lot of people are clearly interested in Flash Player on mobile devices. It’s a big issue, and I feel terrible that my unpreparedness ended up being a strike against Flash on mobile devices. We’ll be releasing a public version of Flash Player 10.1 at Google I/O and would love to hear how your Flash sites perform. You can always submit issues by using the open Flash Player bug base.
View full post on Digital Backcountry – Ryan Stewart’s Flash Platform Blog
As a Flex developer, I’m more than a tad concerned at the upcoming launch of Flash on Android. Many, many web developers – burnt by poor (Mac mainly) stability/performance or just annoyed after years of putting up with intrusive Flash ads (not Adobe’s fault obviously) – are watching and waiting, seemingly ready to say, “See! Steve Jobs was right!”. Unless the stability, performance and resource usage on Android are exemplary, the future of Flash on mobile and desktop will suffer a significant setback. This may not be fair on Adobe but I believe it’s reality.
What is Adobe’s fault however is making it easy for designers to make poor performing Flash movies. Every day the average user’s computer is slowing to a halt due to a poor Flash ad or two on a page and, like it or not, this reflects on Adobe. In fact, Adobe actively discourages good memory management by making the memory profiler available only in Flash Builder Premium for example. It’s these sorts of business decisions that end up coming back to bite Adobe. How about a very rudimentary automatic memory tester in Flash Professional that displays a warning when memory usage is unexpectedly high/increasing steadily over time and offers solutions to fix the problem? I realise there’s no such thing as ‘expected’ memory usage but I hope you see my point. There’s a price to be paid (by Adobe) for indirectly slowing and/or crashing browsers and I fail to see much evidence that Adobe is ‘owning’ this problem.
thanks for the video. did the zoo web site you showed have to make any changes to their flash movie to make it work on your phone?
This is quite a sensitive and critical subject now.
The same way Adobe very well handled the public relation after Steve Jobs started to bash Flash, you should double, triple check that each demo you perform is stable and working.
Incident like this can greatly affect the communication “war” outgoing.
Nevertheless, you did your mea culpa.
I also don’t believe HTML 5 will kick away Flash.
It will be a long run and I believe the Open Screen Project will naturally conquer the market.
All the best and good continuation.
Cheers.
Keep your chin up. Live demos of beta software is a high wire act–you’re going to fall from time to time.
If you’ve been in the software game for long you start to appreciate what a miracle it is that the stuff runs at all.
…written on a macbook pro that hangs freezes and crashes at a pretty good clip (she gets rode hard and put away wet though).
Glad to see the update works better. Journalists are doing little more than repeating Steve Jobs, and many executives see the success Apple has enjoyed and don’t question his thoughts on Flash either. HTML5 barely works for RIA’s on the iPad, or iPhone, but Steve said it’s the future, so that’s what they are quick to believe.
How about doing a couple videos that compare the rich interactive experience that HTML5 can provide, in contrast to what Flash can do. People need more clear examples.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4