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Adobe Flash would be available for the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of 2011, according to Pocket-lint who has confirmed it with Adobe. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus that was announced last month with Android 4.0 doesn’t come with Flash player. This would let the Samsung Galaxy Nexus users and other users who receives the Android 4.0 in near future would get full web experience. But the Android 4.0 would be the last version of the Android that would come with Flash support. RIM has announced recently that they would continue to develop Flash Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Adobe announced earlier this month that they would stop development of flash for mobile phones and tablets and concentrate on bringing new features for the Flash Player for desktop browsers. Adobe released an update for the Flash Player for Android recently that came with lots of bug fixes. They would continue to provide bug fixes in future but not add any new features.

They would continue to develop Adobe AIR for both the desktop and mobile phones that is used for creating feature rich mobile applications.

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If you are big fan of Adobe Flash Player on your Android phone or BlackBerry Playbook  , bad news ! Adobe has announced that it is stopping development of Flash Player for mobile browsers and mobile devices. It will however provide critical bug fixes and security updates.  This info comes from ZDNET who got early access to this announcement from Adobe. Looks like Adobe is increasing investment in HTML5 and shying away from Flash player on the mobile browser.

Here is the statement from Adobe

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates.

Most Android phones and tablets have been boasting about flash player functionality as a big feature over other products in the market. Last year, Steve Jobs  posted a long explanation about Why flash is banned on the iPhone   and now Adobe’s decision to abort development of flash player on mobile pretty much goes in line with Steve’s explanation. Bad news for device makers who have been betting on Flash .

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Adobe Systems has announced Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3 software that would enable the users to experience 3D games, premium video content and apps across the major mobile platforms such as Android, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook. This would also allow the developers to develop an app with the mix of Flash, HTML5 and native code to provide a powerful user experience.Accelerated 2D and 3D capabilities for mobile platforms (In the pre-release)The native application support would let the developers to deeply integrate a software into applications and access hardware APIs like vibration control, magnetometers, light sensors, dual screens and Near Field Communications (NFC)Simplified installation of apps with the Adobe AIR for Android, similar to iOS and simplified app version management process and testingInteractive and collaborative applications across devices and distribution channels such as Politifact Mobile app for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry that uses Adobe Flash and AIRAdobe Flash Access 3 offers complete content protection for the premium video content delivered to the mobile platforms.Offers HD Video quality on Apple iOS devices using H.264 hardware decoding.The Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 for PCs would be available in early October, but you could get the release candidates from Adobe Labs if you want to give it a try. The Pre-release versions for mobile platforms would be available soon with the production release in near future.

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PDF documents have become increasingly more popular over the last few years, yet there still isn’t a good way to create them straight from an iOS device. To address this issue, Adobe has released CreatePDF, a small app that allows PDF documents to be created straight from any iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.

CreatePDF is a tool that converts many file types, ranging from image files and Photoshop files to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice and even WordPerfect files, into the PDF format straight from any iOS device while preserving all the quality of the original documents, including all the formatting (such as footnotes) etc. Indeed, Adobe promises that the conversion technology is the same as the one used on desktop versions of Adobe Acrobat.

Sadly, there isn’t a way to directly type out PDF files using this app, only converting existing files is possible, but also incredibly easy; while viewing any supported file in the browser or as an email attachment, simply choose to open said file with CreatePDF. The app should automatically detect the file type and begin the conversion process.

Once any file is opened using CreatePDF, it will be added to a special queue, as you can see below. There, users can monitor the status of their files as well as remove and rename them, or even email them out using the native Mail app.

In order to assure that all the files converted using this service are the highest-quality they can be, CreatePDF connects with Adobe’s servers, although no sensitive data stays in Adobe’s domain, according to the company. It’s still unclear what impact this quality assurance feature will have in the real world.

This app is available starting today, in both iPhone and iPad versions, for $9.99 from the iOS App Store. If you depend on PDF files on a daily basis and would like to create them from your mobile device, this might be the tool for you despite the price tab. If you’re not planning to use it often, however, you should simply continue creating PDF files from your desktop which is almost effortless these days. Nonetheless, it’s great to see Adobe stepping out of its comfort zone by bringing more of its technologies to mobile platforms.

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