This having been my first Android phone (an EVO), I wasn’t prepared for the sheer size of the number of applications in the Android Marketplace. I mean, my jaw dropped to the floor when I saw the quality and number of apps that were in there. It’s just amazing what you can do when you have an OS like this to play with.
And it’s only going to get bigger and better with Flash. The Android Market is just going to multiply exponentially once OS 2.2 (Froyo) becomes mainstream to the Android public and thus Flash Player 10.1 is deployed to Android devices. Then all the Adobe Flash developers who were shut out by the folks at Cupertino will be pushing their applications to the marketplace and it will be amazing.
“What kind of items can be made in Flash?â€, you ask. Games. Just about any type of application. Mobile e-Learning. You name it.
Ted Patrick, Senior Technology Evangelist for Adobe discusses on Adobe TV in the video below how a developer can use Adobe AIR to package their application and export to the Android device. Adobe AIR is the technology used to have Flash run as a stand-alone application on a device.
Check out the video below for “Use Flash Builder to develop AIR apps for Android”
Go here for some more info and see some great samples of Android Development using Flash:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/android/
I’m definitely going to take a stab at some android development using Flash myself once Froyo officially comes to the HTC Evo. If the rumors are correct – that could by mid August for the HTC line. It can’t come here soon enough. :]
