Flash 10.2 has come out for Android Honeycomb (Android 3.0) tablets. Flash 10.2 boasts some significant improvements over Flash 10.1, the first version of Flash support widely available on Android devices.
Basically Adobe seems to have worked out most of the major kinks associated with running Flash on a mobile device. Originally, our biggest problem with Adobe Flash 10.1 was that it loaded Flash content in the form of an overlay, rather than as part of the page in question. The issue with this approach was (and still is) that elements of the page were not properly connected and as such the user experienced parts of the page scrolling at different speeds. This caused the browser to slow down and become jerky while it tried to keep all the elements of the page in the right places in relation to one another.
Flash 10.2 has fixed this problem by instead loading Flash content as part of the actual page. This gives the user a much more fluid experience, similar to that one might experience on a desktop or laptop.
Pages with Flash content also seem to load a little more quickly with 10.2, removing our second biggest issue with Flash 10.1.
We still haven’t got our hands on the software yet and neither will most Honeycomb tablet owners for a little while yet. Although Flash 10.2 is now available from the Android App Market, Honeycomb tablet owners will have to wait until their devices receive an update to Android 3.1.
No word yet on when this will be, but we have high hopes for an Android 3.1 announcement at next week’s Google I/O event.
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