Today, Adobe Flash 10.2 will hit the Android Marketplace for devices running Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb, and by now you’re probably acquainted with what it brings — increased performance for dual-core smartphones running Android 2.2 and Android 2.3, and the promise of seriously sped-up Flash content and higher battery life for Android 3.0 tablets (let alone Flash, period ). Well, we’ve already spent an entire day with the newest build of Flash 10.2 for Android and quizzed the corporate thoroughly in regards to the release, and there’s actually a surprise on hand today, and more coming soon.
Firstly, you don’t absolutely want a dual-core phone to use Flash 10.2 — Adobe VP Danny Winokur told us, and we confirmed in testing, that there are slight performance improvements on earlier devices too. With our trusty Droid 2′s 1Ghz OMAP3 chip, we saw a slight but noticeable boost in framerate when playing a YouTube trailer at 480p, which admittedly only took took that distinctive video from “unwatchable” to merely “fairly jerky.” With the Tegra 2-toting Motorola Xoom, however, 480p videos ran perfectly smooth , at the same time the tablet had trouble rendering 720p content as anything but a chain of pictures. However, Adobe says even with a purpose to change soon, as this beta release doesn’t benefit from full hardware acceleration — it’s actually turned off at once. Though the Tegra 2 is natively decoding video, Adobe told us that hardware rendering and compositing might be added in a subsequent release, and once they are it “will bring 720p playback to an exceptionally smooth, enjoyable level.” The alternative work-in-progress is Flash integration into Google’s Honeycomb browser, which presently has trouble detecting finger taps when Flash isn’t played full screen , but — Adobe hopes — play the exact same in and out the browser when work on Flash 10.2 is complete. Sounds promising, no? Then why don’t you download it yourself and provides it a go?
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