What resources are required to run Flash on Android?

Question

I have HTC T-Mobile device having Android OS 1.6, Eclair platform. I doubt if Flash Adobe Air can run on that. Because that is the only supported on 2.1 and 2.2. Please confirm.

Also can i upgrade my device's OS to Froyo by downloading the OS from android.source.com? I have downloaded SDK 2.1 and 2.2 on my machine. Can i develop and run flash games on the AVD/emulator?

Please comment and reply precisely to the aforementioned questions. Thank you

Answer 1

Here are some great Android Flash development resources: http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html

http://theflashblog.com/

http://theflashblog.com/

http://www.adobe-flashlite.com/?tag=tutorial

http://www.adobe-flashlite.com/?tag=tutorial

Do watch & listen to these demos: http://adobe.edgeboss.net/download/adobe/adobetv/gotoandlearn/aa1.mp4 http://adobe.edgeboss.net/download/adobe/adobetv/gotoandlearn/aa1.mp4 http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-22-and-developers-goodies.html

Answer 2

The implementation of Flash from Adobe won't work on anything prior to 2.2. That is more to do with Adobe targeting that version rather than flash being something that Android 1.5/1.6 intrinsically cannot do.

There have been flash players on Android before, I understand that HTC used to bundle flash capability with the HTC Hero.

You can certainly download 2.2 from source and build it for your device but you must have two things prior to doing that:

1. root access to your device
2. proprietary drivers for your device that will work with that android build

If you have a G1, then you are in luck because the cyanogen mod can be installed on a G1 plus they will be porting 2.2 to it (along with the Nexus One and a few others)