Just for clarity as there seems to be some confusion over what Adobe
are/have done with the flash player.
Adobe are not concentrating on optimising the flash player for mobile
devices. This therefore means that other companies are welcome to
carry on using the current flash player on their devices or they are
welcome to create their own for their specific devices. Adobe are
concentrating their flash platform efforts on the flash player as the
"gaming console for the web" and also the Adobe AIR runtime
environment for application development.
Flash is still a viable option for certain mobile devices however it
is longevity may be questioned and also certain performance issues may
occur. However the number of actual flash mobile specific sties is
very very low and careful consideration should be take on what content
is made available on the mobile web versions of sites.
My suggest would be is you are using android tablets as a terminal and
have flash/actionscript skills available then using Adobe AIR is a
cost effective and a very viable development mechanism to create
applications on the device (not thru the browser). HTML 5/JavaScript
is still very new and does not create the same seamless user
experience as the flash platform, Phone Gap and others such like is
still very funky and young as are lot of other mobile javascript
frameworks(Sencha touch etc.).
If HTML and JavaScript skills are available to you then checkout
Appcelerator Titanium. Much more stable and robust solution for
mobile/desktop application development.
Cheers,
H.
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Joe Cutting <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
> Please note, in December Adobe announced that they would be discontinuing
> Mobile Flash in favour of having their tools become the
> premier HTML5 editing suite for mobile devices.
>
> It is not recommended that anyone build new sites using Flash for mobile
> platforms. Similar news has leaked from Microsoft that likely
> Silverlight is also on the way out.
>>>
> They're discontinuing the mobile version so that they can concentrate
> resources on the version which makes Apps for Android and iOs. This means
> that Flash is still a pretty good option for museum terminals whether you're
> running them on a PC, Android tablet or iPad.
> If you want to make a website which is viewable on a mobile device (rather
> than an App) then HTML is the way to go but at the moment HTML is slower
> than Flash so you won't be able to do anything too resource hungry -
> particularly on a mobile device. The development tools for HTML are also
> currently less well developed so development will take longer, although this
> may change. There's a whole list of pros and cons depending on what you want
> to do but there definitely isn't a clear winner which applies in every
> situation.
>
> I've also been following the Raspberry Pi development with a lot of interest
> and think its a great idea. I'm also concerned that someone will ask me to
> use one for a touchscreen terminal. They are very low powered devices - the
> processor is similar to a sub £100 mobile phone and museum terminal software
> written for one would take twice as long to make something half as good. If
> you only want one or two terminals and you're spending £1000's for your
> software development using a Raspberry PI to save yourself £200 on the
> computer doesn't make much sense.
>
> As Eric says, it might make more sense for video but you'd want to do some
> quality tests to make sure the Raspberry Pi video was as good as a dedicated
> player like a Brightsign
> (<http://pixels.uk.com/products/BrightSign/HD110.htm>http://pixels.uk.com/products/BrightSign/HD110.htm)
> before making a final decision. Particularly if you've spent several
> thousand on getting the video made.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> Joe Cutting
> Digital exhibits and installations
> www.joecutting.com
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> 01904 624681
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