HTC Hero: The first Android device with Flash
30Adrian Ludwig from Adobe shared some very exciting news when he recently demoed Flash Player running inside of the new HTC Hero web browser. This makes the HTC Hero the first Android smartphone with Flash. There is a press release that provides some additional information on the announcement. You may be thinking -- will Adobe AIR run on Android in the future? We are not making any announcements, but if this is something you would like to see, please drop us a comment below or through our feedback form.
June 26
Brent Norris writes:
Aloha Adrian, great demo. This will most likely be my next phone.
I think our Flash piece on our homepage might work nicely with that device...
June 26
steve w writes:
Hey! Did I see multitouch gestures in that video? That was pretty cool. (Of course flash support is also very cool.)
Stevea
June 29
Marc Englund writes:
Yes, I would like AIR to run on Android. In fact, I've been thinking that having a mobile AIR version running on Android, WebOS, S60/Nokia and the iPhone (if possible) would very much be a killer application.
Nokia has WRT and WebOS is a web runtime, but having a standard API that also works on the desktop would be killer!
Apparently Appcelerator has realized this as well, with the upcoming mobile version of Titanium.
Best Regards,
Marc
June 29
Emiliano Armellin writes:
Yes! I'll love to see AIR on android phone (and maybe Palm Pre and iPhone and Nokia)
It could make the difference :-)
Regardless, Htc Hero is a very interesting product.
June 29
James E writes:
AIR is a must on Android! Get it on there!
July 01
Sachin writes:
I am eagerly waiting for adobe air to launch in India....
July 01
Sachin writes:
sorry ..waiting for HTC Hero
July 06
Brian A. Thomas writes:
I would love to see AIR on Android. Then the TweetDeck team could get it on Android... and I have a program I wish I could make (if I had more programming skills) that I would like to be able to have on Android as well as PC and other AIR clients.
Please bring it on... of course some of that depends on if they could get Flash/AIR on the G1 (HTC Dream).
July 09
Verious Smith III writes:
Adobe AIR on Android?!!!
That would be awesome! What are you guys waiting on?!!!
July 10
Don Kerr writes:
I would very much like to deploy my Flex apps to mobile devices at NASA via Air!! Looking forward to that day very much, especially for my NASA Applications. Hopefully you're working on Blackberry plans for Air too!
July 11
Albert writes:
Andorid platform is getting more powerful. We would like to license Adobe Air on the Android devices we are building. It is a must. There are some applications that are so important for mobile users already are based on Adobe AIR. Please port it over soon. We like to be a beta user.
July 14
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How well does it play Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook?
July 16
katherin writes:
I would love to have flash. I just bought my phone and I love the internet with it but I really don't want to buy the hero just so I can see web pages
July 27
David writes:
I have recently started developing with AIR and Flash Lite. It would be great to see AIR on mobiles. I am about to get a new phone and I think I have found it...
August 03
Robert Rawlins writes:
this is very cool beans indeed, It's nice to see mobile devices adopting flash more and more, I a few years ago support was pretty much non-existent.
August 07
Rob Segerink writes:
Adobe air on android and chrome os ? Yes please!
August 12
taa writes:
AIR on Android? Absolutely would love to see AIR apps on my G1!
August 14
Louis Muloka writes:
Adobe AIR on Android would definitely be great!
August 20
mati writes:
forget the iphone! got the new htc hero and it is great, works fantastic.... and apps are so much better and faster @ android! sold my iphone last week!
but please please please make an air environment for the android system, i m using air apps the hole day, but i found no way yet to bring them on my hero....
thank you in advance adobeteam...;-)
greetings from frankfurt
germay
August 25
Mike Baker writes:
Would love to see AIR on Andriod, extend the reach of AIR runtime.
September 18
PR writes:
Just another vote for "yes". The mobile world is changing pretty quickly, and while there are tools to help, you're still often stuck developing differently for different device OS's. I'd love to see AIR be a baseline option across devices.
Android is a compelling place to start...
October 06
RockinRocky writes:
I have the myTouch3G from T-Mobile, and I REALLY need it to have Flash/AIR support!! There are quite a number of sites that I use for finances, updating my band info, etc.... that require Flash, and since an 'auto over air update' to the Android OS 1.6, (donut), several of these sites no longer work. So, please bring Flash/AIR support to Android, I like this phone and do not really want to switch, since it's brand new!
Thanks,
Rocky
October 08
Hansen writes:
I have mortgaged my company's future by developing our product line in AIR. We need to shift soon to the mobile arena and Adobe AIR better be available and soon.
October 10
Inxentas writes:
AIR on Android? That would be so great. Especially considering Android already supports SQLite 3. Having AIR to generate graphics, and SQLite for our databases needs, we could really make some killer apps. I hope this boat will float!
October 16
Acts7 writes:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADD AIR to Android!
October 17
Joshua writes:
Yes, please add AIR to Android. I cannot stress how cool and useful this would be. Not to mention it would thrust Adobe directly into the phone market, and not just indirectly via web pages...
Win - win all across the board.
October 20
Rajan Mariappan writes:
"YES", please add it.I am waiting for it!
October 26
David Moeremans writes:
YES!! Of course I would like to see Air on my Android HTC Hero!
Not only would that bring some of my favorite apps to my phone, but also make it possible for me to develop apps that have the same mobile as desktop experience...
I already love the flash support!
October 30
audreyr writes:
Yes, please, AIR on Android would be wonderful.
November 06
Ian Parr writes:
Be great to see Air on Android devices - not sure about the lower (processor and memory) powered cell phone devices such as the Hero though.
Air being a bit of a resource hog, I'd be concerned about the user experience and any adverse effect on other applications.