Adobe Shows Off FlashTime Video Calling for Android
Adobe Shows Off FlashTime Video Calling for Android
Posted 07/20/2010 at 1:54pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Adobe has given us a peek at a peer-to-peer video calling system on Android that uses the cross-platform Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). The name of the app is, get ready for it, FlashTime. Yeah, take that Apple. The app has direct access to the camera hardware just as a standard app would, and works much as Apple's FaceTime service does. The system uses Adobe's Stratus servers to connect two devices (in this case Nexus Ones).
The point here doesn't seem to be to show something completely new, as Android users already have apps like Fring and Qik to make video calls. Adobe is just showing what their Flash products can do on mobile phones. The FlashTime app will presumably be easy to port to other platforms on which Flash is available.
This isn't going to help to patch things up between Apple and Adobe, but maybe in this brave new world, Adobe can get by without the iPhone. If there were a reliable cross-platform video chat app like FlashTime on your phone, would you use it?
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fiXXer
July 21, 2010 at 5:44am
Any word on weather FlashTime will be a Wi-Fi-only serivce like facetime? Other than the fact that I would need a phone with a front-facing camera to use this, I would use it over the Apple version.
gbaker4911
July 20, 2010 at 4:33pm
It's great to have a major software company like Adobe on our side, but that is a great question about the front facing camera dilemma. I guess you could sit in front of a mirror, that way you would see your subject in your phone display and yourself in the mirror with the camera pointed toward the mirror. (Might look pretty stupid though) But I'm all for taking Steve down another notch.
nadako
July 20, 2010 at 3:55pm
Heck ya i would. Lets say that if most phones use this they would be able to use this with other flash devices so it would be cross platform so you wouldnt be stuck with just Iphone to iPhone but from Android to Windows Mobil Phone7. I find it funny that apple loves to issolate it's self from everyone else and in the long run could destroy them again.
Dantv
July 20, 2010 at 3:21pm
First off, I'm a windows guy...Been building my own systems for 15 years +...Not an Apple troll.
I have the iPhone 4 and facetime works perfect. I love the iPhone 4!!!
Don't need Adobe and their plugins. Also Google has been pretty pathetic the past year just trying to copy Apple's iPhone. Just look at Google's stock price the past year...Down. Why don't they go focus on improving their search engine. Even Microsoft is doing something ORIGINAL with windows phone 7.
LovTrain
July 20, 2010 at 2:09pm
To bad the video (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=25606) is password protected, cant view it.
Yes, I would use it but I would need a new Android phone with a front camera =/
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