Android have officially joined the Open Screen Project with the announcement of Flash support on the upcoming HTC Hero device. Flash is supported in the browser, but can also be launched in full screen mode by double-tapping a SWF from the browser, which is a neat way of launching “standalone” content. I’m thinking maybe you could use some kind of badge (like an AIR installer badge) which sits on the web page, but then when double-tapped, it goes to full screen and then starts the app/game/content. Mmmm … anyway … maybe Mark or someone could comment on that idea.
The HTC Hero is also a multi-touch device which could make for some interesting Flash applications as well.
It needs to be pointed out that this is not Flash Player 10, but interestingly has been referred to as a “mobile-optimized runtime” rather than Flash Lite. Still AS2.0 based, and can reportedly view around 80% of all Flash web content today.
Read more on the announcement over on Mark’s blog and also watch a video of Flash on the HTC Hero in action over in the Mobile and Devices Dev Center.
There’s been a lot announced in the past week about the Flash mobile platform, and with Flash Player 10 and AIR being the next big advancement, I thought I’d write up a 
From Adobe @ Mobile World Congress
