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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Debuts on Google Android 2.2
by Nicholas Kolakowski
Flash on Smartphones
Several content publishers, including Sony and Warner Brothers, have apparently optimized their sites to work with Flash on smartphone screens.
Easy on the Battery
Adobe claims some 4 hours of continuous playback for games using Flash 10.1 on the Nexus One.
Animation and Graphics
With regard to animation and graphics benchmarking, Adobe says that Flash 10.1 runs at more than three times the frame rate as HTML, at the same level of battery consumption.
Wide Support
Flash 10.1 includes support for multitouch gestures, the smartphone’s accelerometer (for switching between landscape and portrait views) and "smart zooming" that allows content to scale to full-screen size.
Going WiFi
On a WiFi network, Flash-supported video on sites such as YouTube experienced slow load times.
Loading
Loaded after 3 minutes using WiFi: a YouTube video showing an alleged prototype of the next-generation iPhone 4G.
Fast Loading
The HTC homepage’s Flash-supported animation loaded quickly.
Animation Slides
Flash 10.1 needed a couple of seconds to load each "slide" in the HTC animation.
Smooth Operation
The HTC animation moved smoothly, with a minimum of jerkiness or pixelation.
Video
Flash-enabled video on TNT’s homepage.
Wall Street Journal
Flash-enabled video on the Wall Street Journal’s homepage.
White Screen
News videos from The Wall Street Journal took some time to load; this one still presented a white screen after 2 minutes.
Film Clips
A full-screen movie trailer (for "The Book of Eli") supported by Flash 10.1. As with Website animations, this film clip ran smoothly, with no hitches or pixelation.
Streaming
Adobe claims more than 3 hours of streaming H.264 video playback over a 3G connection, on the Nexus One, provided the hardware acceleration is turned off.
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Adobe sent tech reviewers a Nexus One loaded with a prerelease version of Google Android 2.2 and Flash Player 10.1 to demonstrate its latest effort at providing a desktop-style Web browsing experience on smartphones. While Flash 10.1 is optimized for high performance on mobile devices and leverages smartphone hardware capabilities such as the accelerometer, Adobe cautioned reviewers that some bugs will be present in the build. Flash Player 10.1 indeed allows Web animations and movies to run smoothly, after some longer-than-expected load times. Slated for general release June 17, Adobe expects this newest version will allow it to push back against Apple, which has shunned Flash on popular mobile devices such as the iPad and iPhone. For Google, the prospect of offering a smartphone OS capable of running nearly the entirety of the Web’s rich content must also be appealing.