Android is now the only real competitor to the popular iPhone OS that comes in trendy smartphones and is backed by Google and HTC. Google has confirmed native support of the Adobe Flash in the upcoming revision 2.2 of the open-source Android OS. This capability will result in a richer web experience on the smartphones and mobile devices running Android.
Apple is always criticized for not providing support for the Flash in its iPhone OS that comes with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. The company is now backing HTML5 as an alternative to Flash that will be able to support streaming media and ads for the iPhone OS.
However most of the streaming content available today is based on Adobe's flash that includes popular media websites such as YouTube and Hulu. As the smart devices have become faster and now support popular browsers, the mobile web traffic has now become a significant part of the internet and the support for flash playback is now a much needed feature in these smartphones. After Apple's refusal to support flash in their iPhone OS, Google team has taken a move to provide full support of the flash playback in the Android 2.2.
This was revealed by Andrew Robin, VP Engineering Google during an interview describing the project code named 'Froyo' that will provide native support for Flash Player 10.1. This update will be available soon on latest Android based smartphones including Google Nexus One and provide compatibility with flash games, flash based streaming media and ads.
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