Posts Tagged ‘Flash’

Apple Working on Flash Alternative ‘Gianduia’

May 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Though Apple is fighting to keep both Flash and Silverlight out of iPhone OS, the company seems to be working on a new framework for rich internet apps and games called Gianduia.

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Microsoft Supports Apple

May 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the battle for Flash, Microsoft has announced that it understands Apple’s move away from Flash and toward HTML 5.0 for mobile devices. IE will fully support HTML 5.0, but there is no word on WinMo 7 or Silverlight.

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Jobs Burns Flash Down to the Ground

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In an open letter, Steve Jobs explains what the relationship with Adobe was and will be for the future and that future, will stay ‘flashless’ as far as Apple is concerned.

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Flash 10.1, not for the ‘slow’ Androids

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.

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Adobe Abandons iPhone Development

April 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It seems like Adobe has given up on the dream to launch Flash apps/players on the iPhone. The company will still deliver the iPhone compiler with Flash CS5, but it will already be an end-of-life product.

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Flash 10.1 Does Arrive in H1, Just not the Phones

April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

Adobe has send out a statement to explain that their Flash Player 10.1 for mobile phones is being released in the first half of 2010, as announced earlier. It is just the phones they install it on which will be late.

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Adobe Delays Flash 10.1 For Mobile Phones

April 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

In an interview with Fox Business, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced that the launch of Flash 10.1 for mobile phones has been delayed till the second half of 2010.

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4.0: Apple Bans External Compilers

April 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Bad news for web services and Adobe as Apple has updated the terms and conditions for iPhone developers yet again. Through article 3.3.1 the use of external compilers has been prohibited.

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Greystripe to Allow Flash Ads on iPad

March 31st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Greystripe is bringing Flash advertising to the iPad with theit iFlash ad units. Greystripe supported this technology on iPhone already meaning the innovation is mostly in the bigger sizes.

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Metismo Adds Web to Bedrock

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Metismo has announced to start supporting exports of games to the web through a mix of HTML5 and Flash. With many mobile developers using Bedrock, it means they can quickly add yet another platform to their portfolios.