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Adobe Air gaining interest in webOS

By: , 6/21/2011 9:40 am | 9 comments

Adobe may not only be putting it’s latest Flash and Acrobat Reader software on webOS devices but there is a chance that Adobe’s effort at a dev-once release-everywhere design environment called “Air” will once again include webOS.

According to our tipster, the current version of Flash Builder only exports apps for iOS, Android, and the Playbook. However, recent documentation shows the following:

Our customers are focusing on creating applications for smartphones and tablets, and we are aligning our investment towards new features and platform support for the device market….We are actively developing AIR for Android and support other Linux-based mobile operating systems, such as webOS, through the Open Screen Project.

Interestingly, a major reason Adobe shifted towards mobile development is because of the the small percent of Linux users but webOS isn’t big yet, which means someone at Adobe thinks it has potential to grow. What is more interesting is to see this competing against Enyo, which has the potential to be a similar turnkey development environment in the future.

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Source: “different Matt” @mstate

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  • Fliedlice

    YES!!!

    Since Feb 9, I think I’ve been the only one clamoring for Adobe Air to be on this platform. While I’m basically completely unfamiliar with it (yeah, I know), I think the idea is great to have another platform with other applications to use on webOS. Not to mention the products Adobe puts out there.

    If Adobe and HP really start hooking up on webOS, it could be a really great partnership.

  • http://profiles.google.com/anayagamingllc Jason Buffalo

    First Adobe has to fight for it’s Flash, with Google and Apple ironing out HTML5.0 to give Web Designers the same capability like Flash, Adobe got to be on it’s toe’s and has to get as much support for there Platform as possible.

    • JMWPainter

      True.

  • http://sorli.com sorli

    Yes I would love to see more Adobe support!

    Photoshop for tablets would be a great start and help show the Touchpad in a better app light.   Not really familiar with Adobe’s iPad wares and what they provide that platform, but I suspect it must be interesting and useful.  We don’t need a complete Photoshop replacement on Touchpads and I’m pretty certain Adobe realizes this.

    Adobe Air looks promising and I’m also hopeful they step up and use that 1gb of RAM and Dual-Core processor just waiting to be used on the Touchpad.   Sorli…

  • JoeAverage

    Will it won’t it???? webOS and Adobe do not have a happy past, and that’s why I put so many question marks. Speculating on their “relationship” isn’t something to “just hope it works out.” These “lovers” didn’t get it together properly first time round, so the court is very closely watching how the couple behave this time.

    • http://twitter.com/matthewfabb matthewfabb

       I think Palm imploding had something to do with that. After they were bought out by HP it still took a while before WebOS 2.0 came out. I think if Palm had been more stable that Flash Player 10.1 and AIR would be been available around the same time as Android.

  • Anonymous

    “What is more interesting is to see this competing against Enyo, which has the potential to be a similar turnkey development environment in the future.”

    Competing?   Complementing?  Different programming languages, different strengths.  As for Enyo becoming dev once deploy everywhere … that depends on licensing agreements that have yet to happen.

    • scott

      Enyo is definitely not a dev once deploy anywhere, JavaScript is. Enyo uses extensions specific to web-kit and the device. As much as I would like to see IE support web-kit, it doesn’t and IE still has the largest market share.

  • Matt

    Did this ever happen?