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Adobe Air Coming To The BlackBerry

February 15, 2010 by Robb Dunewood 7 Comments

Today at Mobile World Congress, Adobe will announce plans to bring Adobe Air to both the BlackBerry and Android.  This is a huge deal for pretty much every smartphone platform, less Apple, because it will allow mobile application developers do develop applications once and distribute them to any smartphone supporting Adobe Flash 10.1.

AIR is currently used to create desktop applications, but it will soon be used to create Android and Blackberry apps as well. These mobile AIR apps will be able store data locally on the phone, access other data on the phones such as photos, and be distributed as regular apps in the Android and Blackberry app stores.

A big complaint for BlackBerry users is the lack of BlackBerry applications compared to the number of mobile apps on other platforms such as the iPhone.  Even though the iPhone doesn’t support flash, Air applications can be easily ported to the iPhone SDK which means hordes of developers may opt to create Air Applications for multiple platforms as compared to just creating them specifically for the iPhone.  This could be huge for the prospects of BlackBerry applications and the nations leading smartphone platform as well as up and coming platforms such as Android.

If there is a chisel that can crack Apple’s dominance when it comes to mobile apps, it would development environment that already has millions of developers and the ability to develop applications once and deliver to multiple platforms.  There are already more BlackBerry devices than their are iPhones, and, when you add in all the up and coming platforms that may accept Adobe Air and Flash as standards, the market opportunity is enormous.

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  1. fayek says

    February 15, 2010 at 11:49 am

    i literally clapped when i read this post. finally a light flickers in the neverending dark tunnel that is blackberry apps!!!

    im excited. let’s just hope we live to see it actually happen

    Reply
  2. danny says

    February 15, 2010 at 11:52 am

    flash is pretty dead(not now, but it will be …!) in my opinion…..HTML 5 will rule….

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  3. iPhoneRulz says

    February 15, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    you do realize that flash was played out like 18 months ago. It’s all about HTML 5.

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    • Filippo Gregoretti says

      July 21, 2010 at 5:44 am

      Amazed by the ignorance of people claiming comparison between flash and html5, which are 2 basically different technologies.
      Funny,
      whoever says “flash is dead” is usually ignorant about that technology.
      There are studies that prove how the level of confidence rises proportionally to the level of ignorance about a certain topic.
      Flash will live and evolve just like any other technology.
      Long live to flash AND html5.
      Muttering all this “deaths” hurts the talker. As much as hate hurts the hater.
      Apple trolls are like their boss, jobs, he is about to die of a horrible disease, and wants to bring in the grave as many as he can… I pity the guy. An I pity Apple fanboys, but I do understand them, they have to be the coolest in town, so if their boss decided to censor something on their device, they can only agree!

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  4. Lol says

    February 15, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    HTML 5 is part of the future. But it’s just that the future, and the far future (in terms of technology years). Most major browsers don’t support HTML 5. They are not even close. It will take a long time before most people have HTML 5 browsers installed. So I doubt e-commerce sites will switch for a very long time. But others I am sure will move in that direction.

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  5. dan says

    June 15, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    Ugh, go away apple trolls. This is more about app development, and you can’t build standalone apps in HTML5. Funny thing, Adobe Air can render HTML5 using the built-in WebKit framework, like right now. What can HTML5 do right now?

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  6. srini says

    September 7, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    When will Adobe AIR for other platforms such as Qualcomm BrewMP, Mediatek, Windows Phone 7 etc

    Reply

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