{"id":8784,"date":"2010-02-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/adobe-air-for-smartphones-wants-to-be-one-platform-to-rule-them-all-smartphones\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T06:00:00","slug":"adobe-air-for-smartphones-wants-to-be-one-platform-to-rule-them-all-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/adobe-air-for-smartphones-wants-to-be-one-platform-to-rule-them-all-smartphones.php","title":{"rendered":"Adobe AIR for Smartphones Wants to Be One Platform to Rule Them All [Smartphones]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Adobe's launching AIR, its cross-platform runtime, for smartphones. Why's that a big deal? It theoretically means developers can write an app once, and it'll work on tons of OSes—at least any that support AIR. Oh, and<\/em> the iPhone.<\/p>

<\/a>Android's the first to get AIR, but WebOS, BlackBerrry and Windows Mobile are slated to get it too. And remember Adobe's initiative to push Flash apps<\/a> onto the App Store for the iPhone? Apps developed for that will work just fine in AIR on other phones, letting Adobe have their iPhone cake and eat it too.<\/p>

<\/a>I saw an early build of it running on a Droid and Nexus One, where we messed with a couple of apps, like one streaming live video from a computer, and it's pretty impressive stuff, with multitouch and close-to-native performance in some instances. If AIR succeeds the way Adobe hopes, it'll be what Java once promised to be, a way to write once for tons of platforms. That's a not-insignificant-sized \"if\" though. [Adobe<\/a>]<\/p>

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