Flash Player 10.1 beta also available for mobile developers.
It might not yet have convinced Steve Jobs of the merits of its technology, but Adobe continues to make announcements elsewhere in mobile.
This morning, the company confirmed that its Adobe AIR platform is going mobile, starting with the Android OS. As on desktops, it'll allow developers to deliver what are effectively web apps outside the mobile browser.
On mobile, these apps will support native handset features including multi-touch, gesture inputs, accelerometers, geolocation and screen orientation.
It'll be based on Flash Player 10.1, which has just been made available in beta form for mobile developers and content providers, with a wider release expected sometime in the first half of this year.
Adobe confirmed support for BlackBerry, Symbian, Palm webOS and Windows Mobile, but iPhone is still the elephant NOT in the room. However, Adobe says its Adobe Packager for iPhone tool will let developers reuse their iPhone code for AIR-based Android apps.
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"With the Flash Platform further advancing on mobile devices, we enable developers and content publishers to deliver to any screen, so that consumers have open access to their favorite interactive media, content, and applications across platforms," says Adobe's general manager and VP of the platform business David Wadwhani.
In separate news, Adobe has joined the LiMo Foundation, announcing plans to support Linux-based smartphones with Flash too.
"Bringing the Flash Platform to LiMo opens up a significant opportunity for Adobe to further its goals of open standards and multi-screen interoperability of rich mobile content," says Wadwhani.
Adobe joins the likes of LG, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, SK Telecom, Telefonica, Vodafone and Verizon Wireless in the LiMo Foundation, with its members expected to launch SDKs for the creation of native and web apps in the coming months.
"We are extremely excited to have Adobe in our team," says LiMo chairman and NTT DoCoMo executive Kiyohito Nagata.
"Adobe's technology shall enable the LiMo Platform to provide consistent runtime environment across a variety of LiMo devices, allowing millions of developers and designers to distribute content to consumers worldwide much more easily than they can today."
