I got the opportunity to attend the FITC event held at UCSF during this week. Here are notes from key note speaker - Kevin Lynch - CTO, Adobe and Mark Andreas - Adobe fellow
- He started with history of flash player from initial version to flash 10. The 10.1 release seems to be a major miles stone for them due the full flash support on mobile devices.Being in the audience, Flash community seems pretty exited about this.
- He tried make a point to the developers that flash is not going away by giving example like there were many flash killers during the journey from AJAX,HTML5,silverlight..etc But it all faded away due to the consistent experience delivered by flash.
- Adobe manage to work with partners to give over the air updates of flash players to the mobile devices, which was considered as a big challenge initially.
-The Flash 10.1 is currently available on 7-8 devices on android platform from HTC and Motorola. The latest droid2 box includes a special promotion "Can play flas" with flash logo.
- The road map of flash player includes tablets, televisions and other multiple farm factors.
- Mike Andreas talked about the major performance improvements they made to make it available on handsets including memory management, hardware acceleration, reducing the power consumption ..etc. He demonstrated the non-optimized regular yahoo flash site vs sony pictures optimized site.
- He talked about Flex 4.0, but it is not currently optimized for moble and it is on their road map.
- Air 2.0: They made some decent performance and mobility improvements in Air 2.0 Air2.0 can also act as server for their peer to peer multicast support. They demonstrated simple asteroid multi player game where the air 2.0 acting as a server and all the devices connects to the air2 running on desktop.
-Air 2.5 for mobile devices is currently available as beta, can be downloaded from adobe.com/go/airbetasignup
-Kevin talked about the device central functionality in cs5, where the developer can emulate the flash content on the device. He demonstrated simple board game with action script code blocks.
-On device debugging is currently not available but expected to come.
- Adobe's priority is to get flash on the devices first then the air.
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