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Bad News: Adobe stops development of Flash Player on mobile

Phoboss   November 9th, 2011 4:55a.m.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-development-on-mobile-browser-flash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5/19226

"...We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations."

WTH?

cmccorvey   November 9th, 2011 9:48a.m.

I wonder how difficult it would be to develop Skritter as an HTML 5 web application? Hey guys, while your doing the iOS work, why not also... ;)

TheSolution   November 9th, 2011 10:19a.m.

Maybe the answer is to migrate (adapt?) the code to Adobe AIR? Then it can be deployed to various platforms (iOS, Android and perhaps others...WP7, BB, WebOS).

I don't know, I'm just putting it out there for comment.

Comments...

nick   November 9th, 2011 12:05p.m.

Rats.

I guess the plan will be either to make a native Android app, now, or looking into an AIR port. Maybe someday HTML5 rendering performance will be sufficient on mobile, but that's not today.

I wonder how long we have before the new Android devices will be coming out without Flash Player support.

dbkluck   November 9th, 2011 12:42p.m.

"I guess the plan will be either to make a native Android app, now..."

I know Schadenfreude is unseemly, but it's really hard to hide my lack of disappointment!

Nicki   November 9th, 2011 10:19p.m.

Native. Android. App. YES!

约翰   November 10th, 2011 9:46a.m.

Umm... Flash runs in AIR, doesn't it?
But yes, a native Android app would be really nice.

Dennis   November 10th, 2011 2:14p.m.

It also seems Microsoft may have joined the anti-Flash camp. From what I've read Flash will not be available to apps that are integrated into the Metro desktop in Windows 8. They will have to run as separate applications. None of this seems to be all that clear and I suppose it may change. I think it's time to download the beta ;-> .

Tortue   November 11th, 2011 1:06a.m.

Microsoft already do no support Flash on Windows Phone Mango (fantastic platform btw) and already planned to kill Silverlight. Therefore I guess that it will be all about HTML5 and native app.

對我來說, the death of flash is everything but a bad news.

JoshC   November 11th, 2011 1:26a.m.

native ipad app? yes? yes?

nick   November 11th, 2011 11:45a.m.

JoshC, the iPhone and iPad versions will probably come out at the same time (although we haven't started testing the iPad layout yet)--it'll be the same app.

JoshC   November 15th, 2011 1:39p.m.

Hi Nick,

I was finally convinced to buy an iPad because of this product:
http://ifaraday.com/store.html

I would highly suggest grabbing one if you have an iPad. It is to the iPad as the wacom is to the PC. I look forward to the day where I can use this with skritter. There is no other pen like it on the market, and it makes writing on the iPad a joy.

JoshC   November 15th, 2011 1:42p.m.

p.s. I chose the ifaraday artist.

followtheflow   November 18th, 2011 9:39a.m.

I'd love a native Android app. Flash on a mobile just never works truly smoothly...

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