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Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by zweben »

apike wrote: post #8

If you look at the YouTube player UI in the demo, it appears to be YouTube's HTML5 player, not their Flash player. Edit: I've been corrected here - for some Flash videos, they use the HTML5 style UI, and for some Flash videos they use the old style one. Presumably the demo really was Flash, although I'm not sure why you'd want Flash over HTML5 on a browser that supports it like the Android one.

They just changed their Flash player interface; that is it. The HTML5 player looks like the older Flash interface.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by malkia »

cscotta wrote: post #4

Alpha software is alpha-quality. It takes time to get things right. My pre-release stuff is full of bugs...which is why it's pre-release. Seems like it's a bit early to judge the quality of their product.

Zeta Software is Zeta-Quality :)

Fun aside, but we do extensive stress tests for our games before going to the E3, or even for just journalist visits. If we know that the game crash, a special person is playing it (usually some QA guy) so that it doesn't.

That's failure to DEMONSTRATE!

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by czhiddy »

samps wrote: post #3

It's a prototype; of course it crashed. But I don't understand why mobile Flash demos usually entail watching a YouTube movie... isn't that a solved problem? Doesn't seem like a good selling point for Flash.

Agreed. It's not as if Android devices would switch to this Flash implementation to playback videos. Why not demo something like Farmville?

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by catch23 »

cscotta wrote: post #4

Alpha software is alpha-quality. It takes time to get things right. My pre-release stuff is full of bugs...which is why it's pre-release. Seems like it's a bit early to judge the quality of their product.

The flash video on youtube crashes for me at least once a day on my Mac... so nothing new here. Is the flash player for the mac also alpha quality too?

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by catch23 »

apike wrote: post #8

If you look at the YouTube player UI in the demo, it appears to be YouTube's HTML5 player, not their Flash player. Edit: I've been corrected here - for some Flash videos, they use the HTML5 style UI, and for some Flash videos they use the old style one. Presumably the demo really was Flash, although I'm not sure why you'd want Flash over HTML5 on a browser that supports it like the Android one.

I'm guessing because their HTML5 one doesn't support annotations yet. Even in the chrome browser, the default is still the flash player.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by vtail »

cscotta wrote: post #4

Alpha software is alpha-quality. It takes time to get things right. My pre-release stuff is full of bugs...which is why it's pre-release. Seems like it's a bit early to judge the quality of their product.

Which reinforces Steve Jobs's point that there is no working mobile Flash implementation yet.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by loire280 »

cscotta wrote: post #4

Alpha software is alpha-quality. It takes time to get things right. My pre-release stuff is full of bugs...which is why it's pre-release. Seems like it's a bit early to judge the quality of their product.

Assuming that large portions of the Android Flash player are borrowed from the Linux version of Flash, I'm not very hopeful for the final product. Flash Player for Linux is by far the buggiest of the desktop implementations.

On the other hand, Linux users may get lucky and indirectly benefit from a renewed push to improve that code base!

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