VIDEO: Flash Running on Tegra 2 Android Tablet
As part of its decision to show increased support for Android (and, you know, stick it to Apple), Adobe has demonstrated Flash running seamlessly on a tablet running Google's mobile OS.
At the Web 2.0 conference, Adobe is cheering for Android with demonstrations on Android devices, free Android phones for its employees and now, a demonstration of Flash running on an Android tablet powered by Nvidia's Tegra 2.
Zedomax reports seeing a range of devices running Flash at the Adobe booth at Web 2.0 but among them was a tablet running Android 2.1.
Zedomax:
"It runs Adobe’s Flash and Air apps flawlessly. That was the first time I saw Adobe’s Air apps running on a tablet and totally impressed by how it ran. And now I can understand why Apple wants to ban Flash and other Adobe products completely from their iPhones and iPads, because it’s rather incredible technology.
The prototype that was demo-ed at the Web 2.0 Expo show was showing the current workings of the Wired magazine’s Google Tablet app. Certainly, it looks like Google Android tablet will make a big impact on worldwide tablet sales."
Confirmation of the Tegra 2's presence inside the tablet shown in the video below comes via Engadget:
"It is indeed Tegra 2. We worked closely with Adobe to show how next-gen Tegra can bring the complete web to tablets at Web 2.0," Nvidia said in an emailed comment."You can expect to start seeing Tegra 2 devices appearing this summer, with plenty on the way in the third and fourth quarters of the year."
Check out the video below!
This is a prototype as your video clearly shows, so it's not surprising it still has a few kinks. For all you know it could have been the browser. At least somebody didn't leave this prototype in a bar...
And what kind of video in the Flash file? Probably mp4/h.264 so hardware acceleration can be used.
If that's true, why do i need it in a Flash container?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hqFTx8rLsg
we see at around 35 seconds the browser crash while playing a flash version of youtube. The same one the iPad runs flawlessly in HTML5
Let's not forget Adobe claims it runs flawlessy... let's see how that translates to real world use. And let's not forget that power draw/battery drain is one of the claims of Apple. Will be interesting to see how that holds up under intensive flash use VS html5 use.
This is a prototype as your video clearly shows, so it's not surprising it still has a few kinks. For all you know it could have been the browser. At least somebody didn't leave this prototype in a bar...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Google-Android-TiVo-Netflix,10306.html
... now wonder apple is looking up to do something with AMD/ATi...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/macbook-mac-macbook-pro-radeon-os-x,10206.html
Its the same thing that Sony has done/is doing with the nasty-ass development tools for the playstations. They are so bad that its a chore to get stuff going, let alone easily ported to other console systems.
I do hope that was sarcasm because the iPad obviously bears no resemblance whatsoever to every other tablet PC manufactured in the last 10 years.
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You can't expect flash driven websites such as newgrounds to switch to HTML5 any time soon.
Tegra is really exciting, it should give Intel a run for its money as it tries to enter the mobile market. And Intel should be worried. If the same story repeats-- x86 used to be the personal computer chip, and expensive SPARC chips where for mainframes and super computers, and now x86 dominates the PC and server market-- we may be buying ARM-based computers in the future with accelerated Tegra chips. After all, it is better to have 100's of cores with a small instruction set like ARM, than to have 12 or 24 cores with the kitchen sink.