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 10:09AM
Wow, way to have ugly thumbs detract from the Demo!
I hope his thumb didn't get that way hammering at the capacitive touchscreen...
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.)
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.