Adobe Flash Browser Plug-in for Android Announced
Bsquare is a software developer for the embedded device community, and it has announced the release of an Adobe Flash browser plug-in for the Android platform running on ARM-based devices. The Flash plug-in requires Android 1.5 (Cupcake) or higher.
“The next version of Google’s Android operating system, ‘Cupcake,’ should be attractive to a wider segment of developers,” said Larry Stapleton, Bsquare’s vice president of global sales. “Our Flash Platform technology browser plug-in will be valuable to OEMs building ARM-based smartbooks and to those who are developing other types of Android devices requiring a rich media experience that is fundamentally different than anything else available for users today.”
We have recently seen an upcoming Android phone, the HTC Hero, running Flash in a browser, but there is no confirmation this is the same implementation announced today. One has to wonder why Android is the platform that gets Flash working first — perhaps because it is open source.
Doesn’t look like the Bsquared implementation is what was shown on the HTC Hero. Adobe worked directly with HTC for that.
Is it really just Flash lite? A few other stories have claimed it is a full Flash Player 10.
“Android is the platform that gets Flash working first…”
Hasn’t flash been on Maemo for awhile now?