April 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »
It seems the new Flash Player 10.1 will not be available to all Android generations. Adobe seems to be limiting the eligible devices to all those with an ARM Cortex-A8 processor. Other devices will have to stick with Flash Lite.
If this is true, it will be another setback for Flash developers. Though Flash Lite has been adopted by many hardware vendors, huge differences in the versions made Flash Lite detection and development a bit of a mess. Flash 10.1 would be the messiah to that part of the industry but now seems to come to only a very limited set of devices at launch.