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Adobe plans to move its software onto ARM hardware


By David Worthington
November 17, 2008 — 
As part of an effort to make its platforms more common, Adobe Systems has partnered with ARM to develop an optimized version of Flash Player 10 and its AIR runtime for embedded microprocessors.

At today's session of the Adobe MAX 2008 conference, Adobe and ARM announced that Adobe software will become available for the ARMv6 and ARMv7 architectures used in the ARM11 chipset family and Cortex processors, beginning in the second half of 2009.

The objective is to enable a better multimedia experience on ARM platforms, as well as to deliver Web applications to consumer electronics and mobile devices with reduced power consumption. ARM-powered devices range from, but are not limited to, automotive platforms, mobile phones, personal media players, televisions and set-top boxes.

Adobe will make the AIR runtime and Flash Player 10 for ARM hardware available to OEMs. Flash Player will also be released to partners royalty-free under Adobe’s Open Screen project. The objective of Open Screen is to establish consistent Flash runtime for all devices and to broaden adoption of the technology through partnerships and liberal licensing.

To that end, Open Screen cleared a barrier to porting Flash to mobile devices by opening access to Adobe’s device porting layer APIs, which were previously available under closed-license agreements. Adobe also removed restrictions on using the FLV/F4V and SWF file formats, which enable multimedia graphics and video-specific tasks.

However consistent Adobe’s runtimes may be, form factors remain a consideration. “Web applications [on mobile devices] are limited by browser behavior,” said Kerry McGuire, director of strategic software alliances at ARM. He noted that browsers often take a different approach toward scaling content to the device screen, and that standalone AIR applications grant developers more control to adjust the user interface through specialized APIs.

Acknowledging the challenges posed by supporting various form factors, Adobe is investing in tools and technologies that enable developers to move applications seamlessly from environment to environment after logic is in place, said Anup Murarka, director of technical marketing for mobile and devices at Adobe.


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