Key features included:
Stage Video hardware acceleration
A new method for video playback in Flash Player allowing developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration.
Native custom mouse cursors
Define custom native mouse cursors.
Support for full screen mode with multiple monitors
Full screen content on a secondary monitors while users work on another display.
Using the Geolocation API the geographical location can be displayed on the device in the form of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates. The API can enable both one-shot location requests and repeated location updates for tracking applications. This example from Adobe shows you how to use repeated location updates.
With Adobe Air’s cross-platform nature it makes sense to need a place to distribute your applications from one place instead of having to manage them all separately. Enter Adobe InMarket announced at Adobe MAX 2010 – which lets you target the majority of the seemly ever growing app stores all in one go. Intel have apparently already expressed interest in this with there ‘AppUp’ store and we’re sure the rest of the popular app stores will follow suit very soon.
Adobe Air 2.5 not only supports desktops platforms such as Linux Windows and Mac OSX, but also supports / will soon support Android, Blackerry’s tablet OS and iOS (ha).
Yesterday Google released Chrome version 7. The update is part of Google’s promise in July to release a new stable version its web browser about every six weeks. As well as the usual bug fixes, the update includes a improved HTML5 parser, File API, and directory upload via input tag.
Steve Jobs spent the most part of yesterdays Apple’s earnings call ranting at rival companies, operating systems and platforms during which he has described Android OS as fragmented and not truly open.
We leave you with Google’s VP of engineering, Andy Rubins twitter reply:
“the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make”
Awesome!
Here at AndroidAirApps we are not afraid to admit our rather strong dislike towards anything Apple, so we couldn’t help but laugh at their latest and quite frankly pitiful excuse for a… well we’re struggling to find a proper name for it… …’Streamy type Thingy’ will do for now.
Its sheer lack of features (namely 1080p playback support and any form of usable internal storage) means it relies on other computers or Network Attached Storage units in your house to stream data from – which in our minds completely defeats the purpose of what a device like this should so.
Sure it may look ‘pretty’ but even that cant save it from its crapness. Yes thats right, crapness. The new word of the day.
We just feel sorry for the Apple worshipers who will inevitably buy into this. Ha who are we kidding, they deserve it!
Source found Here
Heres another great video discussing Air for Android hardware acceleration / GPU rendering on your mobile device.
This video was created by Lee Brimelow who demonstrates how to enable GPU rendering and compares the performance with and without it.
Christian Cantrell product manager and application developer on the AIR team demonstrates the differnce between CPU and GPU modes running Air on Android.
Read his full post on how to access GPU rendering.