Flash appears in Mobile Finally

It’s a long way, but it’s finally here. Flash finally the transition to the mobile screen. In the first place, while the Apple / Adobe Flash is debate over further, I’ll ignore this question here. At the end of the day, Apple customers, who feel this as important or not, and Apple will respond or not.

For the last few days have I tested a build of 10.1 Flash, Adobe calls that pre-beta on a Google-Nexus One runs the latest build of Android, 2.2 (also known as Froyo). (I find the pre-Beta naming a little strange, not pre-beta are really only Alpha? But I digress). First, the details of the implementation of Flash on Android to be clear. This is a Froyo or platform before. Until your device gets the latest Android release, Flash is forgotten. Second, Hulu does not go to work. I bring this because Hulu is the flagship for Flash applications users want to run. To be clear, Hulu is not running, is not about how well Android runs on Flash to do. Hulu, at this moment in time, only has the right to run on PC monitors. In an age of connected screens, I realize that makes little sense, but that’s the way it is. No Hulu for mobile now.

Overall, my experience with Flash on Android was pretty good. Web sites that’s loaded with flash relatively quickly and effortlessly. It was fun to surf to a website and do not receive an error message because flash was used. In general, the less heavy Flash site, the better experience and performance, but if you enabled a Flash site, for the most part, what the web designer is thinking, what you experience. Performance worked well, and websites load quickly and fairly complex animations and user interfaces to work quickly and looked good. I have to spend not enough time to measure the battery life implications, but for the most part not much to see waste power or battery life as a result the current flash. Adobe has a good job making the case that Flash is viable for mobile enough.

The longer-term question is, is it important? It’s great to see a complete web experience on mobile devices, but it is never complete. Let’s face it, most Web sites for the big screen PC monitors were developed and navigated with mice and keyboards. Even as the desktop PC more and more moves to Web-based applications, mobile is different. Rich applications are far more important than Web browsing. Use Twitter on a mobile device? If so, I bet that you are using a native application for your phone, rather than the Twitter website. Also, Google is the creation of rich, native applications and service experiences for Android as opposed to just push Web applications. In a world of native rich client applications, the ability to run Flash is simply less critical than it might have been in earlier times.

At the end of the day, developers will be a crucial factor. With ten mobile platforms competing for attention and ten non sustainable number can consider the long term, many developers on Flash as a chance to use their code and IP to a larger number of platforms without a strategic bet on the success of any of them. After weeks of rhetoric that has Adobe Flash mobile challenge with a solid demonstration on the technology on mobile viability, particularly Android answered. Developers and users get on the final call on whether Flash is important enough for them as they make their development and their buying decisions.

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