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Adobe shows Flash-based FaceTime clone for Android

updated 04:20 pm EDT, Tue July 20, 2010

FlashTime for Android mimics Apple's FaceTime


A video calling system for Android handsets is under development at Adobe, as evidenced by the video below. Called FlashTime, it is very similar -- and an alternative to -- Apple's own FaceTime video calling app for the iPhone. FlashTime is built using the upcoming Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) 2.5, currently in beta.

Flash Platform Evangelist and FlashTime builder Mark Doherty demonstrated the technology by having a video call with himself using two Nexus One handsets. AIR 2.5 is said to have the same features as the desktop Flash platform, and supports cameras and microphones. It will allow developers to create video-conferencing apps.

Doherty warns that some features of the prototype service will not make it into the final version of FlashTime. [via Hexus]


FlashTime Demo - P2P Video on Android with AIR2.5 from Mark Doherty on Vimeo.




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  1. tundaman

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    07/20, 04:52pm | report spam | reply

    crappy demo video

    The inability of that guy to deliver a decent demonstration video casts doubts in his ability to deliver a working software.


  1. rjdude

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    Monkey See

    Monkey Do


  1. hdfonts

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    07/20, 05:09pm | report spam | reply

    Adobe = Microsoft

    Adobe is slowly evolving (or devolving, if you will) into Microsoft. They're peddling ancient software (Flash) on inferior hardware (Android) with "cutesy" similar names (FlashTime?... give me a break). Adobe is going to alienate themselves when the rest of the world adopts the Flash-less internet.


  1. dliup

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    in other news

    Google recalls Nexus One because it runs Flash for only 30 minutes.


  1. Herod

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    this must be a joke

    right?


  1. qazwart

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    07/20, 07:37pm | report spam | (1 reply) | reply

    Flash is Dead

    It doesn't matter anymore whether Flash is a good or bad technology. The fact is that it has died. At one time, you used Flash because EVERYONE could run Flash -- even Linux systems.

    This meant that whatever you did was available. It was the true power of Flash. However, now that the iPhone and iPad won't use Flash, creating Flash content is no longer universal. You are now excluding a sizable chunk (and probably a very profitable chunk) of your market.

    This isn't just an Apple thing either. Adobe's Flash player for Android won't work on any Android phone under 2.1 (and I'm not even sure if 2.1 will be able to run Flash), and it won't work on HP's upcoming WebOS tablets, nor on RIM's new WebKit browser. These companies would have welcomed a Flash plugin, but Adobe isn't able to provide one.

    And, I'm not even including Windows 7 Phone.


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    I like the name!!

    Should be great for the naked guy/trenchcoat markets.. will sell big at Mardi Gras too!


  1. icewing

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    in other news

    The ITI virus (Inability to Innovate) has swept the globe and now has hit every company other than Apple...


  1. facebook_Justin

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    Adobe wont give up Flash till everyone else does. They love their little monopoly and tricking moron developers that don't know any real programming languages into using their extremely overpriced Flash suite to develop their web apps. Then they have the nerve to complain about piracy! Perhaps if Adobe understood the correct business model for software then they're wouldn't be piracy, at least of their apps.


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