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Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– How it Can Benefit Mobile Learning

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. - Y ou can develop eLearning content that can run on desktops, laptops, netbooks, and smartphones. Apart from AIR app, the same code and assets in any AIR app can further be used to deliver a mobile browser version using Flash Player 10.1. made available for handheld devices.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

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Last week, while justifying Apple’s refusal to allow Flash player on iPhone/iPad, Steve Jobs wrote– “ New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too) ”. Clearly Apple is backing HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript for developing future web applications.

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Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player?

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Smokescreen project is an effort to bring Flash player to the iPhone/iPad without installing the Flash plug-in. For now this project is targeted at advertisers to enable them to run Flash ads on the iPhone/iPad. Here is a video demonstration of a Flash ad running on an iPad using Smokescreen –.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

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As this Gigaom article points out chances are the Open Screen Project may be bigger than iPhone. It says – “The iPhone is awesome, but getting the full web experience on your set-top box or TV is something that represents a far bigger opportunity”. Related posts: Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1–

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Apple Vs Adobe: Impact On Mobile Learning Development

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With the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0 Apple has revised the Developer Program License Agreement to ban the use of cross compiler tools like Unity3d, Appcelerator’s Titanium, Adobe’s Flash CS5 etc. for developing iPhone and iPad applications. which we think is a smart feature). or AIR 2.0.

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Future Of Flash Is Open Source

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Adobe has some great development tools like Flash Builder, Flash CS5 which target the runtimes – Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Although Adobe has a range of open-source projects they haven’t yet fully “opened” both the Flash runtimes. The pace of development, however, is really very slow.

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #1

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Flash Player 10.1 Recently Adobe has released the public beta of Flash Player 10.1 Here is a short video of Kevin Lynch [CTO of Adobe] demonstrating the various Flash Player 10.1 Silverlight for IPhone. So now we will see all Silverlight video made compatible with the IPhone. Description.