Randy Troppmann

At the recent Google IO conference Adobe announced the public beta of Flash Player 10.1 for Android and the public prerelease program for AIR on Android.

I’ve been working with the AIR for Android SDK for a bunch of weeks now and Adobe loved my prototype of Trackometer (info on the iphone version) so much they were going to include it in the Day 2 keynote demos at Google IO. I guess Google put serious time constraints on things and the demos did not happen on the main stage. However, Trackometer was demonstrated in the Adobe booth and the AIR team featured it in their blog. Ted Patrick also included it in his demo in the video below (see 2:00). Adobe also used the Trackometer source code with Flash Builder to do a live demonstration of compiling and moving the application to a device.

Work continues on the Trackometer app. It will have more features than the iPhone version currently has.

Adobe’s recognition is a huge thrill for me and a nod to independent developers. My inclusion in the private prerelease group was a direct result of the 360Flex presentation I gave in San Jose this past March. I have to pass on a big THANK YOU to Andrew Westberg for asking me to co-present a topic and to Tom Ortega/John Wilker for accepting our presentation proposal. This proves that sometimes you just need to get away from your computer, get on a plane, and go and talk to people in the industry. Face to face.