[opendtv] Re: Flash Gone from Android
- From: dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:42:54 -0800
I was a bit surprised myself. And it isn't that they just stopped
supporting Flash; it has literally been removed from the Droid OS and now
a big exclamation mark replaces the flash player. I assume they are
pushing for HTML5 based playback, which, of course, means the requirement
for more file formats to cover different devices and browsers. One must
have at least 3 versions of a program to make it accessible to most
devices.
So we were in the process of updating to Flash Media Streamer 4.5 so that
we could stream to Droids an iDevices. However, it appears that the
promise by Adobe of FMS 4.5 streaming to Android devices is a broken one
and we have wasted our money on the purchase. I think we might consider
another media streaming server application.
We also were going to develop an app. for iDevices and make it available on
the iStore. We tried getting the SDK from Apple but they wanted a copy of
our business license and articles of incorporation. How do you get that
for a state run university? We tried and got all kinds of people involved,
including our legal department. Turns out that someone at the university
has already registered UNLV and Apple won't release information on the
registering party to anyone, including the Director of Office Information
Technology. So now we must go through the lawyers. This might be an
unusual case but the fact is, getting the SDK and an app in the iStore is
not open process.
Dan
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