****Android 2.2 to get full Flash support****

[Viralmind]

Google gives the finger to Apple by building support for Flash video into Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’, due to debut next month.


Flash is coming to Android smartphones, with support for the Web video format to be baked into the forthcoming Android OS 2.2 update.

Google’s mobility guru Andy Rub confirmed the move in an interview with The New York Times, which goes beyond Google’s previously nebulous comments that Android and Flash would meet at some point in the future.

That future now looks to be next month, when Google will preview Android 2.2 – codenamed Froyo, after the US brand of frozen yoghurt (in keeping with naming of each revision of Android for a sweet treat or desert) – at its developer confab in San Francisco.

Android already supports HTML5, Apple’s preferred alternative to Flash, in the current 2.x release.

But Android’s ability to play the widespread Flash format, which extends from online video clips to a key component of many Web sites and of course advertisements, will be crucial as the OS moves from smartphones onto slates, set-top boxes and other consumer devices.

Owners of the HTC Desire are already a step ahead, as HTC wove Flash support into Android’s open source code. Adobe is also working on a Flash player app for Android, with a beta version expected to be released later this month.

The app will allow users to access Web sites which rely on Flash for navigation as well as watch streaming video using the popular format.

However, Adobe says the player will be available only for smartphones running Android 2.1 or later – many of which will also be upgradeable to 2.2, making Adobe’s Flash app a stop-gap measure until fans start flashing their phones with Froyo firmware.

http://androidforums.com/updates-cupcakes/73369-android-2-2-get-full-flash-support.html#post680419

 

[Thefoodman52]

Uhh... I'll pass on flash with an ARM 11 processor, thanks. It's laggy enough with the limited flash plug in we already have. I'm fine with coming to terms with the fact that I have a low end android device. Just keep it segmented so that only phones with a certain processor architecture and above can have it. I'd be more than fine with that; pop up flash ads on websites are annoying on a computer, but near impossible to navigate past on a cell phone. No thanks.

Good day, sir.

 

[silverrocket]

I cant wait to see the morons ov er at apple try to talk there way out of this one watch how fast they find a way to view flash on the iphone but it will somehow be magical

 

[alowishus]

I'm really looking forward to this. I hope that it doesn't bog down the internet experience too much. However there is always opera mini to help with that.

 

[Lukehluke]

It should be good.

 

[Demax_max]

I had flash support on my HTC Hero for ages now. Besdies, anyone else could install small program for full flash support on non-HTC phones. Nothing new for me...

 

[fabler]

I am very excited to see flash running on my N1. I've signed up for flash 10.1 beta. But didn't get any update till now. But I fell very happy to own a nexus one.

 

[dmodert66]

I am very excited to see flash running on my N1. I've signed up for flash 10.1 beta. But didn't get any update till now. But I fell very happy to own a nexus one.

Yep, you are lucky. You should get the update during Google IO or shortly after (June). I'm sure the Droid will get it (it has already been stated), but when is anyone's guess. The wireless tethering feature will probably not make VZW happy, but they will just charge to use the feature.

Flash was shown running VERY well on the N1 recently, so that gives me hope it will run well on my Droid OCed to 1 Ghz...

 

[fabler]

Yep, you are lucky. You should get the update during Google IO or shortly after (June). I'm sure the Droid will get it (it has already been stated), but when is anyone's guess. The wireless tethering feature will probably not make VZW happy, but they will just charge to use the feature.

Flash was shown running VERY well on the N1 recently, so that gives me hope it will run well on my Droid OCed to 1 Ghz...

Thanks buddy. I am really very happy that I chose N1 against an iPhone.