Adobe’s Open Screen Project – One runtime to rule them all
Today Adobe announced the Adobe Open Screen Project (AOSP), a partnership between Adobe and lots of ther companies (including ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless).
The project is dedicated to driving rich internet experiences to not only the pc but to a broad range of consumer devices like smartphones and televisions.
The AOSP wil be taking advantage of the flash player and, in the future, AIR to provide a consistent runtime environment.
I can hear you think: hmmm, nice sales talk.
Read on…
In order to make this mission a reality, Adobe showed its commitment with a few (BIG) announcements:
- Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
Now everyone can create swf players. - Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
If you like, you can create a flash player for your specific device. - Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
a rich offline portal solution for mobile operators and content providers - Removing licensing fees
I think we can haf fun with this one…
Now you can embed the flash player on the device of your desire
Now you have a reason to be excited about the future of flash and AIR.
The blogosphere has gone crazy about this last day…
Read more about this topic on next interesting blogs:
Peter Elst
The flash mobile blog (Mark Doherty)
Scott Janousek
Ryen Stewart
Aral Balkan
And these resources
press release
Open Screen Project
May 1st, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I’m wondering where this leaves flash lite…
May 1st, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Flash Lite has, and will continue to be, a key driver in the strategy for the Open Screen Project.
On my bog I’ve talked about us shipping 1 billion Flash enabled devices by 2009. Right now we’re at 500m+ which means Flash Lite will remain the enabler for the following 500m+.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:24 am
@Mark if flash lite will be continued, is that not against the whole spirit of the whole open screen project?
You don’t want to see fragmentation, but isn’t that what you’re doing yourself with flash and flash lite?
I guess it’s a little all a little to vague for me to make up my mind about it. (But I am excited about the direction Adobe is following!)
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 am
Flash Lite has its uses (phone UIs, etc.)
What we’re hopefully going to see more of is full-featured Flash support for Internet content on mobile devices (and that’s going to rock!)