Adobe to launch AIR on Android early October
Adobe has confirmed the company would be releasing Adobe AIR for the Google Android mobile platform on October 8, with support for other platforms like the BlackBerry soon to follow.
Adobe AIR allows developers to use various platforms like HTML5, JavaScript, including the company’s own Flash platform, among others, to build Internet applications that could run locally on supported operating systems like Linux, Mac, Windows, and mobile operating systems, without the need for a browser.
Firstly, released February of 2008, the platform has been installed more than 200-million times and is used by firms like FedEx, eBay, NASDAQ, among others. Bringing Adobe AIR to mobile platforms like Google’s Android operating system could bring better quality applications with more capabilities to the platform, hence giving the platform (and others that support it) a competitive edge in the mobile market place.