Will Android FlashTime Video Calling App Beat Apple FaceTime?
Adobe launched a “FlashTime” demo, a peer-to-peer video calling solution for Google Android, and any other Adobe Air equipped device. Built using Adobe Air 2.5, the app offers all features of Flash 10.1 along with multi-touch gestures, support for bitmap matrix caching and Geo-location APIs. The app is now “feature-complete” and is undergoing extensive testing ahead of launch later this year.
Adobe’s Mark Doherty say “there’re no plans to release this little mockup client and that indeed the FlashTime moniker is a mere placeholder.” The app will enable calls between various different camera equipped devices. Android has no built in support for video calling, over the air, or even over WiFi only using 3rd-party apps such as Fring or Qik. “FlashTime” could be a flawless opponent to these players.
While Nokia’s just waiting for a Linux SDK before it can start porting Flash apps to its devices within 2010, Adobe implied that it’s still waiting for two other vendors to respond, Palm’s already been shown a Flash build running on webOS devices, and it’s just a matter of the company signing up for Adobe’s device certification system; RIM, on the other hand, is a bit more vague, but we were told it’s definitely interested in both Air and Flash.
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