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Adobe Flash May Come To Windows Phone 7 Through iSwifter

March 10, 2011 | By Pradeep

iSwifter is a new application that went live on Apple’s App Store and soon in Android marketplace as well. The application streams Flash content to the devices through its servers. Here is the application description,

iSWiFTER is the industry’s first cloud-based Flash game streaming service specifically built for mobile devices including smart phones and tablets, spanning mobile platforms such as Apple’s iOS and Android. Low-cost servers in the cloud run abstraction software that intelligently converts browser-based Flash games to a form that is optimized for individual mobile devices, complete with multi-touch gesture support for game interaction, and accommodating different screen sizes. A client app connects to the gaming servers in the cloud to download streaming content live to the mobile device.

So how is it related to Windows Phone 7? Here is the Q&A from FAQ section of the iSwifter,

1. Which mobile platforms does iSWiFTER support?

We currently only support iOS but Android support is coming soon. If the market demands, we’ll take it to Windows Phone 7 as well.

Do we really need this app at Zune marketplace?

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Flash 10.2 incoming, but no WP7 date announced

February 15, 2011 | By l3v5y

techradar.com has a piece up on Flash 10.2 for mobile, shortly coming to a mobile near you. While an Android release is expected “very quickly,” with source already delivered, the release for WP7 will be coming rather later – but it is coming.

One client he couldn’t give us a date for is Flash on Windows Phone 7; “not at this time but it is still something both companies are working on”. He was positive about announcement that Nokia and Microsoft will work together on Windows Phone 7.

Adobe claims 10.2 brings, among other improvements, vast reductions in CPU use while playing HD video, of particular use in extending battery life for video playback.

Whatever the release date, we can be fairly sure the new Flash will hit WP7 before iOS.

via techradar.

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Downloaded PDF’s trapped on Windows Phone

November 25, 2010 | By Surur

Windows Phone 7 now has PDF support Bch writes us about a new problem he noticed while using his Windows Phone and how it handles PDFs.

At present Windows phone 7 users can download documents, including PDFs, from the web and email, where they remain accessible from the Adobe Reader app, which keeps a list of the files on the device, and also allows one to delete the documents.

Unfortunately the Adobe Reader does not integrate in the Office hub, and the Reader app also does not allow one to email or otherwise manipulate the pdfs on the device, meaning effectively files downloaded are trapped on the device.

The only alternative is to forward the original email, but this may not be possible if the email has scrolled of the sync list, or have been deleted.

The issue could easily be solves, most rapidly by Adobe by releasing an update for the Reader app which allows emailing PDFs, and possibly a bit more complicated, by integrating the app properly in the Office Hub. Hopefully drawing attention to the issue here will prompt such an update soon.

Read the Microsoft forum thread about the issue here.

Thanks Bch for the tip.

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PDF viewing demoed on Windows Phone 7

November 7, 2010 | By Surur

Caution: The video contains flashing lights.

WindowsPhonePro have published this video showing how Adobe’s PDF plugin integrates in Windows phone 7.

Rather striking is how smoothly the viewer works in Windows Phone 7 compared to Windows Mobile 6.5. With the list of saved PDF’s available under the Adobe app this should alleviate some of the concerns that have been expressed about not being able to access the file system and retrieve documents downloaded before.

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Flash Coming to WP7 Devices Confirmed by Adobe

October 25, 2010 | By Pradeep

At Adobe MAX, Adobe’s worldwide developer conference, they announced Adobe® AIR® 2.5 software for televisions, tablets, smartphones and desktop operating systems. There is no word on Adobe Air availability on Windows Phone 7 platform. But Adobe have confirmed that Flash is coming to future versions of Windows Phone. Here is the exact words from their press release.

With Flash Player 10.1 available on Android and Google TV today, BlackBerry platform, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo,and Symbian OS are also expected to support Flash Player 10.1.

I think its now time for Microsoft to announce the availability of Silverlight for Windows Phone web browser at PDC’10 conference to be held at Oct-28,29. What do you think?

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Adobe brings PDF support to Windows Phone 7

October 18, 2010 | By Surur

Windows Phone 7 now has PDF support Adobe Systems today introduced the Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) X software family , including a new Adobe Reader X for Windows Phone 7.

The company also announced its new software suite now better integrates with Sharepoint, allowing documents to be checked in and out, and support for Microsoft SCCM and SCUP. The software now also features Protected Mode, which should help mitigate issues related to software vulnerabilities exploited by specially crafted PDF files.

Bill Rue, chief information officer for HASSELL, notes:

"Using advanced Microsoft SharePoint functionality in Acrobat X, we can seamlessly integrate documents into our workflows, simplifying projects and helping to ensure we have the right people working on the right project, at the right moment."

Support for Windows Phone 7 certainly plugs an important hole in terms of accessibility of frequently used documents in both business and on the internet at large.

Read more about the new software suite at Adobe here.

Via WPcentral.com

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For Developers: Expression Blend 4 SP1 now allows for importing custom Flash controls

October 3, 2010 | By Surur

FXG files can now be imported for Windows phone 7 development. One of the strengths of Windows Phone 7 development has been Microsoft’s commitment to helping developers use their existing skills and resources to move applications to the smartphone environment, with support recently for IronRuby and Visual Basic as examples.

InfoQ.com notes that with the release of Expression Blend 4 SP 1 developers will now be able to import Adobe FXG files, enabling Expression developers to use Flash UI components in their applications.

FXG is an XML-based graphics interchange format for Flash, containing graphical and text primitives, following the Flash Player rendering model.

This will allow developers to easily re-use not just projects coded for Silverlight on the web, but now also work they have done on in Flash.

Read more about the details of the support at InfoQ here.

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Adobe and Microsoft working closely together on bringing Flash 10.1 to WP7

March 10, 2010 | By Surur

Talk of Flash on Windows Phone 7 was cooled a bit when Steve Ballmer announced the OS, saying it will not ship with the web runtime, but may come in a later version.

Recently Mike Chambers, principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, reconfirmed that both Adobe and Microsoft are targeting Flash 10.1 for the browser in Windows Phone 7.

One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news is that Adobe and Microsoft are working together to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series.

I don’t have an eta or other specifics right now, but it is something that both Adobe and Microsoft are working closely together on.

This is rather good news, and suggests we can hold out for Hulu on our phones some time in the future after all.

Read the full post here.

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Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile 6.5 dropped, will come (eventually) in Windows Phone 7

February 25, 2010 | By Surur

Adobe has been holding up the promise of Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile for some time now, with the release dates constantly slipped.

It seems the vapourware has now gone completely up in smoke, with an Adobe rep admitting:

You can expect the final release for Android to be available mid-year. All Android devices that meet our minimum s/w and h/w requirements will be supported. Unfortunately, I cannot say a lot more publicly about our port to the Android platform at this time.
As for WinMo, we have made the tough decision to defer support for that platform until WinMo7. This is due to the fact that WinMo6.5 does not support some of the critical APIs that we need.

For Windows Mobile fans there is certainly an increasing perception that any lingering support the OS may have had had slipped away completely, making the purchase of a device running the OS without the firm promise of an upgrade Windows Phone 7 appear rather foolish.

Would one be mad to buy a Windows Mobile phone on a two year contract these days? Let us know below.

Via Pocketnow.com

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Adobe confirms WM7, also confirms no flash in WM7 yet

February 14, 2010 | By Surur

Microsoft is still officially mum on your “next release of Windows Mobile”, but their partners have never been as tight-lipped as Microsoft has been recently.

Letting the cat out of the bag one day early, Adobe has released a statement confirming that Windows Mobile 7 will not initially support Flash in the browser, but they are working together with Microsoft to make this possible later:

Microsoft and Adobe are working closely together. While the newest version of Windows Phone won’t support Flash at initial availability, both companies are working to include a browser plug-in for the full Flash player in future versions of Windows Phone. More details will be shared at Microsoft MIX next month.

This also confirms leaks we have heard earlier that say much the same, but given that Windows Mobile 7 is not fully cooked yet, it is quite understandable. Hopefully this will not have any effect on Flash 10.1 on Windows Mobile 6.5.

Adobe “on the verge of delivering Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones”

February 4, 2010 | By Surur

If there is one positive fall out from the spat between Adobe and Apple regarding Flash on the iPhone and iPad, it is that it concentrates Adobe’s mind on delivering the software for competing platforms.

I a long diatribe against Apple they do reveal that the technology, set to come at the end of last year, is still on its way to our smartphones.

We are now on the verge of delivering Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones with all but one of the top manufacturers. This includes Google’s Android, RIM’s Blackberry, Nokia, Palm Pre and many others across form factors including not only smartphones but also tablets, netbooks, and internet-connected TVs. Flash in the browser provides a competitive advantage to these devices because it will enable their customers to browse the whole Web. This is being accomplished via the Open Screen Project, where we are working with over 50 partners to make this a reality across a wide array of devices.

Hopefully we will all be watching not just Youtube but Vimeo and Yahoo video on our Windows Mobile smartphones in the next few months.

Via Allaboutphones.nl

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Multi-Touch Visits Adobe Air

November 18, 2009 | By WenWP

Multi-Touch is becoming more and more popular, which is why Adobe added support for it in the new Air2.

They recently announced a new version of Adobe Air, that is said to support multi touch for phones like the HD2 that have Multi-Touch capabilities enabled. This new development gives better support for activities, processes, networking, Javascript and performance. This is more of a competitive release to go against Microsoft’s own Silverlight that I might add should be part of Windows Mobile 7.0.

Releases should start soon, but only date is set so far is for Palm Pre.

Go to Pcworld for more on this.

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Flash 10.1 demoed on the Toshiba TG01

October 6, 2009 | By Surur

Adobe has demoed it hardware accelerated Flash 10.1 on the Toshiba TG01. The software appears to function pretty smoothly, and makes IE 6 for Windows Mobile look pretty good actually.

Flash Player 10.1 is expected to come to Windows Mobile in beta form before the end of the year.

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