Adobe Reveals Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile
As expected, a public beta of 10.1 is being launched today at Google’s annual developer conference for phones running a new version of Android – 2.2, codenamed FroYo.
General availability for Android and for the PC is expected in mid-June, with versions that work on Windows Phone 7, Palm’s WebOS, BlackBerry and Symbian devices coming at a later date.
The new version replaces Flash Lite version. In addition to cross-platform capability, It can play video directly on web sites and enables full-screen gaming, but it also responds to touchscreen gestures so that objects in a game can be manipulated with a finger stroke. It also taps into accelerometers, meaning automatic adjustment to portrait or landscape mode.
The player sees increase in performance by using hardware acceleration of video if available. The resource consumption has also been reworked, It uses memory more efficiently and intelligently shuts down during low power mode to reduce battery drain.
Adobe cites three hours of video playing over a 3G network as being achievable on the Nexus One and four hours of continuous game playing.
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