14 DAY TRIAL // One of the latest solutions brought into the wild from Adobe was the demo software called “FlashTime,” which was built on the upcoming Air 2.5, and which came to light as a peer-to-peer video chat client aimed at taking full advantage of the photo snapper included in one's mobile phone. The solution was recently demonstrated on smartphones running under Google's Android operating system and, one should agree that it seems promising.
For the time being, it seems that Adobe does not plan on coming to the market with the mockup client that can be seen in the video demo below, while the FlashTime moniker is said to be nothing more than a placeholder. According to the company, this is not an Adobe product, but only a demo. Moreover, the company notes that anyone would be able to come up with a P2P application using Flash and AIR, and that the AIR features that can be seen in the demo might not make it into the v1 product, but they are “working” features.
“This week I have been working on a couple of different mini-projects to test out new beta features of AIR 2.5 for Android. The engineering team are pushing out features every week, and I have to say I’m very very impressed with their efforts. We are arguably now at feature parity with the desktop AIR releases, which is precisely the goal of the Open Screen Project,”Adobe's Mark Doherty notes in a recent post on the Flash Mobile Blog.
As stated above, the solution was not meant to land on the market, though the people working on it did their best to make it as fully-functional as possible. Here's what Doherty states on the matter: “in the 5/7 build we have added Camera, Microphone, StageWebView and NativeExtensions features to the beta. Of course AIR comes with all of the Flash Player 10.1 features along with multi-touch/gestures, support for bitmap matrix caching and Geolocation APIs in addition,”
He also notes that the code still needs some work before becoming a little more stable than it is at the moment. The source code should soon be made available for all, even if there are no plans to come up with a product.
P2P Video Demo - AIR2.5 on Android from Mark Doherty on Vimeo.