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20 October 2008
Tamarin-Tracing , Flash Player and Googles' Roboto, Mr.Android
Im getting the Android in a couple of days and the first thing that comes to mind is whether the Flash Player will be supported any time soon. Ive googled around a bit and read some stuff about how adobe has to develop a Java based flash player? Im not too sure about this, I just googled for a few minutes, but I did remember of a little thing Adobe gave Mozilla called Tamarin and I started to look into it. Tamarin for those who don't know is the open source AVM ( the thing that converts actionscript in bytecode for the flash player), and there is also another branch to Tamarin called Tamarin-Tracing which is (if im not wrong) for non-pc devices such as cellphones and game systems. All these things point to Flash player on android a reality, however there is the case of Google allowing the Flash Player on the platform, I mean its open source so they cant technically "not allow" anyone from developing something for the android but will google be happy with a prfopiertry technology on their platform? Makes me wish the Flash Player was open source, if it was then on Day 1 of the Android Launch I could guarantee that the Flash Player would be on the platform running. I was initially a couple of years back not in favor for making the Flash Player open source but now I see the importance of open source. I mean its not like adobe is making any money off the flash player directly so whats the problem with making it open source. Were not saying make Photoshop or Flash IDE open source, were not even saying make Flex builder open source. These are the places where Adobe's Income comes from, so whats the problem with making something that your not making money off of (ie. Its free to download and use the flash player) not open source?. Adobe, listen to your users. Make Flash Player open source and the world will love you even more.
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Re: Tamarin-Tracing , Flash Player and Googles' Roboto, Mr.Android
Android is a Google flavor of Linux. It's not an all-in-one bundling, a la Apple. Many manufacturers who will be using Android already use Flash Lite. I've seen no barrier, and anticipate that as manufacturers announce new models, the Android/Flash combo will be among them. (It seems to be up to manufacturers, not up to Google.)

Adobe already announced that mobile would not require licensing, and opened up the openable porting parts:
http://www.openscreenproject.org/

jd/adobe
Posted by John Dowdell on October 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM

Re: Tamarin-Tracing , Flash Player and Googles' Roboto, Mr.Android
I have tried to follow that openscreenproject, but for a novice it is confusing and I read other links that I had to do something to my phone first (partition it maybe) then change file names and get them to run. I don't even know which program to use to get them to run. It seems that most on this sites are eliteists but if anyone can let me know how and where to start i'd be grateful and so would my husband because I've become obssesed with this and I'm reading trying but don't know basic code...I'm a dancer thanks. Firespiritwitch@hotmail.com
Posted by firespiritwitch on April 3, 2009 at 8:27 PM

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