Picked this up yesterday reading. from Informationweek.com
Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Android platform soon will be getting support for Flash.
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE)'s Flash is a near-ubiquitous Web technology that's prominently used on popular sites like YouTube and Hulu, but it's generally considered too resource intensive to work well on mobile devices and smartphones. Adobe does have a Flash Lite product for phones, but it's not as robust as the full version. The software company Bsquare said it would be porting the technology to Google's mobile platform.
"Integrating Adobe Flash technology with the functionality of Google's Android platform will afford consumers the rich content and unprecedented applications they demand and is key to achieving success for our OEM and ODM customers," Bsquare CEO Brian Crowley said in a statement. "We believe that our value-added products and services can improve the Android experience for users and help our customers get their devices to market faster."
The move could give Google's Android platform a significant leg up on rival Apple and its iPhone platform. While iPhone users tend to surf the Web more than any other phone user, the lack of Flash support is still a sticking point with some users. Many industry watchers think it's a business issue rather than a technological one: Apple may not want to be tied to another company's proprietary technology, even if it's one as widely used as Flash.
After much public back and forth, it looks like Apple may go another route as the iPhone 3.0 software will enable developers to stream video to iPhones using HTML5. Apple will likely be by itself if it ignores Flash, as Adobe said it would soon bring the full version to major mobile platforms like Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Palm's new webOS.
So who can predict how close it is coming to us?
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im pretty sure this is only what most have already known.
I've always heard Q4 09, not because of Android, but b/c of Flash's estimated time to release Flash 10(i think?), which will support the mobile platforms.
"Soon" is a very open-ended term. Until I actually see that it's out, I'll consider it "vaporware."
derekedw said:
I've always heard Q4 09, not because of Android, but b/c of Flash's estimated time to release Flash 10(i think?), which will support the mobile platforms.
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Flash v10 is already available.
I'm not listening to this crap anymore
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This could end up changing the mobile phone market as we know it. Just proves that Apple is evil.
Apple launches sneak attack on smartphone world with ARM bid
Apple has never played well with others, and is well known for their use of proprietary technology to lock in customers and vendors.
Despite opening their own chip design company, it must have rankled to still have to rely on Cambridge-based ARM Holdings for the basic design of their chips.
Given their $40 billion cash hoard however Apple does not have to put up with the situation for long.
Rumours are currently going round in the markets that Apple is looking to buy the chip technology company for a cool $8 billion, seeing the ARM’s share price shoot up 8.1p to 251.1p, and more than five million shares changed hands by midday.
“A deal would make a lot of sense for Apple,” said one trader. “That way, they could stop ARM’s technology from ending up in everyone else’s computers and gadgets.”
ARM is somewhat of standard, with their chip design being widely licensed by many companies, including Qualcomm, Samsung and Marvell and all current generation smartphone operating systems being tied to the chip design. If Apple were to stop making available further design improvements to others it could leave other smartphone makers scrambling for an alternative which no longer exists.
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Source: wmpoweruser.com
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Toss3 said:
This could end up changing the mobile phone market as we know it. Just proves that Apple is evil.
Source: wmpoweruser.com
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I like this guy. With a domination of Intel in a CPU field, he manages to run the company, that designed and manufactures the CPU everybody wants.
Apple will continue to rotten...
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Today at 12pmEST (Don't Miss It)
Here's the link for the live video stream
Meego = Nokia's Maemo + Intel's Moblin
For those who follow Meego OS for Mobile Devices, Tablets, Computers, etc, today is a great day as the Meego Conference 2011 will be going on and many devices will be shown off. For those who may not know, Meego summed up is the Full Linux OS put on mobile devices. What does this mean? It means that all the programs that run on Linux, can run on Meego as well and since they use the same code, the programs that run on the Smartphones, seamlessly transfer over to the Tablets, Computers, In Vehicle Infotainment systems and more. Also, OS'es that are programmed in Linux (Android, iOS, Symbian etc) can run on Meego due to Meego being full Linux. It already is stated that it can run Android Apps, Java Apps, Adobe Air Apps, Flash Apps and more on top of Symbian apps and of course it's own Apps. Meego already has lots of support from Developers and manufacturers but as any new OS, it will take time to really flourish. Here's how the creators sum it up:
"MeeGo is an open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity. MeeGo integrates the experience and skills of two significant development ecosystems, versed in communications and computing technologies. The MeeGo project believes these two pillars form the technical foundations for next generation platforms and usages in the mobile and device platforms space." - Meego.com
Here's a link of some of the support that Meego already has.
Here are some videos on Meego:
Meego 1
Meego 2
Meego 3
Meego Harmattan on Nokia N9 Teaser video
Meego Factory
The Conference is going to be great!!! Can't wait. Be sure to tune in.
Also, Mod's, if this is the wrong area to post this in, I'm sorry. Could you move it to where it should go? Thanks.
Good. Maemo 5 is good too!
Intel 1,2 Ghz Quad core processor will be like 4 times faster than SGS2 ot tegra 2, qualcomm chips!!!
Definitely. Maemo 5 is awesome!! Meego is going to rock!!! I can't wait. Only 40 minutes left.
Video was down for a while but it's back up now.
Day 1 was a bust. Today's conference has to improve. It starts at 12pmEST
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Now that continuous waves of attacks against Sony’s servers have slowed down a bit (it’s been over a week since the last hack), the company found some strength to regroup and released an Android client for its popular cloud music service Music Unlimited, powered by Qriocity.
$3.99/month for basic and $9.99/month for premium (30-day free trial available) buy you streaming of various catalogs of music from the web (à la Pandora) as well as syncing of your own library to Sony’s cloud servers with subsequent playback from said cloud (à la Amazon Cloud Drive and Google Music).
Considering most of the above can be achieved without a monthly subscription, I am not sure how many of you will jump over to Music Unlimited, although if there’s one thing it has going for it, it’s the UI design. Gorgeous doesn’t begin to describe it – it’s probably one of the cleanest UIs I’ve ever seen on Android.
Have a look at the official description, the differences between basic and premium (link available if you’re logged into Qriocity – I hope my newly created login will stay unhacked for at least a little while), followed by the screenshots below, then jump to the Market links by clicking or scanning our app widget.
Note #1: The installer currently weighs 32MB, without Apps2SD support whatsoever (it’s copy protected using an antiquated technique), so it’s not for the weak of heart at all.
Note #2: Music Unlimited is only compatible with Android phones running OS versions 2.1-2.3.3 – sorry, tablet and 2.3.4 owners.
Note #3: As far as availability around the world goes, according to Wikipedia, Music Unlimited "… was launched in December 2010 in United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It launched in the United States early in January 2011. It was launched in France, Italy, Germany, and Spain in late January, 2011. It launched in Australia and New Zealand in February 2011."
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sony.snei.mu
Sick
Really handy
Hi.
Could someone rip the APK for me ? I want to try and install it on an X10 Mini but can't get it from the market because it's not QVGA compatible.
thanks.
Good news for C# programmers (i.e. WP7 developers): Android ported on C#!
Oracle and Google are currently in a $1 billion wrestling match over Google’s use of Java in Android.
But Java is not the only way to build native apps on Android. In fact, it’s not even the best way: we have been offering C# to Android developers as a high-performance, low-battery consuming alternative to Java. Our platform, Mono, is an open source implementation of the .NET framework that allows developers to write their code using C# while running on top of the Java-powered operating system, and then share that same code with iOS and Windows Phone.
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Some test results:
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Read more at http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/
Either brilliant or crazy
Like one of the commenters over at the original article said, this is either brilliant or downright crazy: Running Android through a Java-to-C# translator and benchmarking the results...
Their ports of the .NET framework to iOS and Android are a little closer to home and should in theory allow sharing of large chunks of code between WP7, iOS and Android apps.
However, watching this scene for already quite a while, I didn't notice this making real waves, with high-profile applications built in this way.
I personally think the risk-reward ratio isn't worth it: One the one hand, 3 apps for 3 OS for maybe 1.5 or 2 times the effort of 1 app. On the other hand, dependence on a product from a small company and a framework that had a near-death experience already when Novell cancelled their support for the project.
In my opinion, that project has one HUGE cons: the product price. $999 is too much for individual developers and small companies (but they should be a primary targeted customers!) Bigger companies will prefer to hire Objective-C programmer(s) for iOS project and Java/Android guys for Android project(s).
Other stuff: Objective-C by default is faster than any CIL language, Android programmers have a better (and free) alternative to use industry-standard C++ via NDK. Also, Java codebase is significantly larger than C#; I saw too many C# projects ported from Java but no Java ported from C# Java is industry standard and I don't think Oracle vs Google fight will change something for regular developers.
P.S. And I agree: this project this is either brilliant or downright crazy
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Earlier this year in August, Huawei first lifted the covers off its long-rumored operating system — Harmony OS. At the time, the company showcased the new microkernel-based OS running on an Honor Vision TV, claiming better performance and improved security. At the time, the company also stated that Harmony OS wouldn’t make it to smartphones and tablets from Huawei or Honor and that Android would remain the standard on these devices. It seems like Huawei wants to maintain its stand on that matter as it plans to roll out Harmony OS to more products next year.
According to a recent report from Reuters, a spokesperson from Huawei has revealed that the company plans to roll out Harmony OS to more products in its lineup next year. However, the company still doesn’t have any plans to ship the OS on its phones, tablets, or computers. The company’s plans were first reported by the government-backed Shenzhen Special Zone Daily newspaper. The newspaper cited comments made by Wang Vhenglu, president of the Huawei consumer business group’s software division at a store event held in Shenzhen. Wang reiterated the company’s stance on Harmony OS at the event and noted that Huawei would prefer Android over its own Harmony OS on phones and tablets.
It’s worth noting that Huawei launched Harmony OS as an alternative to Google’s Android following trade restrictions imposed on the company by the United States. The trade restrictions threaten to cut the company’s access to technology made by US firms, which is why it first rolled out Harmony OS. While the company doesn’t plan on shipping the OS on its phones and tablets, Harmony OS is likely to make an appearance on other smart devices like smartwatches, speakers, and other appliances next year.
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