Looks like I got a new toy to play with, Sony Google TV.
The tv is pretty cool since it’s a LED TV and has a very clear picture. Google TV is integrated in the TV. The Google TV is pretty simple to figure out, a smartphone is much more complicated. It has some applications already [...]
Got a tip from Stuart about a new site extensionsforair.com focusing on native extention for AIR 3.0 for mobile devices. While I think native extention are a great solution I personally think it’s not the best.
As usual the developer community covers technology deficiency by extending functionalities. But this is a short cut by technology provider [...]
AIR 3 and Flash 11 are available for your PC but also for your Android device. Just downloaded and installed on my Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Here are the information on all AIR 3 changes which are quite a lot !
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Another announcment today from Adobe MAX 2011 is about Adobe AIR expanding its reach to LG tvs and TiVo. Read press release.
“Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that LG and TiVo have become the latest partners to bring Adobe(R) Flash(R)-based applications via Adobe AIR(R) to [...]
Today at the Adobe MAX 2011 keynote, Kevin Lynch announced the Adobe Touch Apps which are a set of apps running on Tablets making their tools mobile. Look at the videos to look how Adobe tools become mobile!
Check out Photoshop touch and Proto, pretty impressive.
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Today an interesting announcment from Adobe which acquired PhoneGap and that the framework will go open source with Apache Foundation license.
“PhoneGap has proven to be an industry-defining app solution for HTML5 developers,” said Danny Winokur, vice president and general manager, Platform, Adobe. “PhoneGap is a fantastic solution for developing a broad range [...]
When Apple launched the iPhone I made a post about Apple becoming a Mobile Content Network Operator. History reapeats itself!
I think Amazon Kindle Fire might be the same idea. The secret behind the iPhone success is iTunes! iTune has been the platform that lead Apple to drive all paying customers into the iPhone/iPad era. Yes, [...]
Here is a video showcasing Adobe AIR application running on multiple devices and OS, such as Android, iOS an PlayBook.
While the press always point to Flash on the web or mobile web, the power of Adobe AIR to develop for multiple devices is a very good proposition which does get much attention.
by the way, Adobe [...]
Adobe announced Flash 11 and AIR 3. There are a lot of new features and better performance.
Accelerated 2D/3D Graphics: Full hardware-accelerated rendering for 2D and 3D graphics enable 1,000 times faster rendering performance over Flash Player [...]
Via IntoMobile, yestarday Google has its quaterly earnings and showed some interesting statistics about Android:
550000 activated devices per day
250000 apps in Android Market
Also here some more infos:
The official number of Android applications in the market is 250,000 – this doesn’t include third-party app stores
There have been over 6 billion application downloads from the Android Market [...]
Via Android dev blog, a new app for the Android Market is on the way to Android phones and tablets. The new client should allow users to buy books and movies but it might be limited at some country at the moment.
“The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, [...]
Today I installed the 3rd App Store on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Android Market
Samsung Apps
Amazon Appstore (this is why it might make sense)
Will try to make a video on the last 2 app stores.
Why would you want to have 3 app stores on your device? Well many times app store have promotions on premium contnet [...]
Via Slashgear.com, it’s known that there is project, Alien Dalvik, to run Android apps on MeeGo and Playbook, it might be a way to get AIR Mobile/Flash to run on the Nokia MeeGo devices like the Nokia N9.
“Alien Dalvik allows app stores and developers to simply repackage the Android .apk installation files and then [...]
Via Paul, great news today, a new release is available for AIR 2.7 and AIR 2.7 SDK. Check your Android device for the update.
Enhanced rendering for iOS – AIR apps for iOS render up to 4x faster in CPU mode. This change will improve the performance of many AIR for iOS apps, including those built [...]
