Adobe AIR 2.5 coming to Android in Q4 2010, but only to capable phones

When will Strong Bad and company become native Android applications? Anytime after Q4 2010 — that’s when Adobe says it wants to have Adobe AIR for Android runtimes publicly available within the Android Market, together with an initial batch of apps, and fairly exciting potential for more. The Android release can be component of AIR 2.5 and grant would-be developers access in your smartphone’s camera, microphone, accelerometer and GPS in addition as providing hardware GPU acceleration and multitouch input, that may make for some exciting PopCap games completely serious and under no circumstances game related uitilies down the road. Don’t necessarily expect them to work on every Android phone, however, as there are some prerequisites for AIR, namely an ARMv7 processor with a vector co-processor, OpenGL ES 2.0 and Froyo, but Adobe says in the event that your device handles Flash 10.1, it’ll probably run AIR.

On a related note, in the event you weren’t yet sold on Google TV, a breath of unpolluted AIR can help you — Adobe told us it’s presently pondering the proper time to add the cross-platform runtimes on Google’s video streaming boxes in addition.

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