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Flash Distributable Player Now Available in 45 Countries

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Last week Mark Doherty blogged about the fact that the Distributable Player is now available in a total of 45 countries. One of the nice things about the Distributable Player solution is that you don’t have to bundle a version of Flash with your application. You simply package it up using Adobe Mobile Packager 1.1 and it has all of the information about where to grab the runtimes inside of it so that when someone in one of the 45 countries below goes to install your application it will download Flash Lite if they don’t already have it installed. It’s similar to AIR’s model of making sure you’re only packaging and downloading what you need.

As Mark says, this is a great way to start building mobile applications today while you’re waiting for Flash Player 10. You can see the full list of supported devices and countries over on Labs. There’s also a great tutorial for getting started with the mobile packager that I’ve embedded below.

Distributable Player Supported Countries

Distributable Player Supported Countries

Congrats to the Flash Lite Developer Challenge Winners

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I was lucky enough to be asked to judge the Flash Lite Developer Challenge in which we gave away a lot of prize money ($15,000 USD for each category winner and $30,000 USD for the grand prize). I continue to be impressed with what you can do with Flash Lite. I’m busy working on my own Flash Lite application and these guys put me to shame. My favorite out of the bunch is Little Spender because I think it’s an easy to use and well designed little application.

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Be sure to check out all the winners, Mark Doherty has some great YouTube videos of all the winners in action. And we also have some very cool Flash Lite news coming up in the near future, so stay tuned.

Flash Player on the Palm Pre and the $10 million Open Screen Project Fund

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Adobe announced a bunch of news today before the start of Mobile World Congress. I think Robert Scoble has the best roundup. The biggest? In my opinion it’s great to see Palm join the Open Screen Project. The Pre seems like it’s going to be a big, big deal, and getting Flash on it would be great for smartphone users. The other big piece of news? The $10 million fund that Adobe and Nokia have created for developers to build applications that work on Nokia devices and use Flash/AIR.

Most of this will be available in 2010, but I can tell you that this is the year of mobile at Adobe. We’re going to be doing a number of public betas, our tooling will start having robust mobile support, and the entire ecosystem is going to move forward. But we’ve also announced the availability of a downloadable Flash Lite runtime for Nokia and Windows Mobile devices, so if you’re targeting Flash Lite 3, you can bundle your applications with the runtime so you can deploy it all at once.

Stay tuned for more mobile Flash Platform stuff this year.